Fiona Shukri
Fiona Shukri is an American living in Brooklyn, N.Y. She lived in Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2008 to 2018, where she worked as an adviser to the Afghan government. Previously, she was a Middle East senior program manager for the National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C.; and a communications strategist at Unesco in Paris and at UNA-USA in New York City. http://www.fiona-shukri.com
- Fiona Shukri
- • August 20, 2021
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United Nations staff members in Afghanistan who work for the UN political mission there say it has been failing to protect its national personnel since the Taliban’s sudden takeover of the country on Aug. 15 and as the United…
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- Fiona Shukri
- • August 18, 2021
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The Taliban seized Afghanistan’s second-largest city of Kandahar just last week, marking the beginning of the quick takeover of the country. Kandahar, a city of 60,000 that borders Pakistan, is a historic center of Pashtun culture and power and…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Fiona Shukri
- • August 4, 2020
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As Covid-19 continues to ravage many parts of the world, the effect of the virus in Latin America and the Caribbean region has been particularly devastating. The situation in Haiti, for example, has alarmed international humanitarian groups, as the…
- Categories: Caribbean, Covid-19, Human Rights
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- Fiona Shukri
- • July 13, 2020
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Six months into her job as the United States ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, Kelley Currie has done little to demonstrate that she can restore American leadership on women’s rights while reporting to an ideologically driven administration known for…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Fiona Shukri
- • June 15, 2020
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Already struggling with a surging Covid-19 pandemic, United Nations health agencies must now face the possible abdication of the United States’ leading role in fighting polio — just as the world gets tantalizingly close to eradicating it for good….
- Categories: Covid-19, US-UN Relations
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- Fiona Shukri
- • February 18, 2020
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The United Nations system has instituted some important changes toward becoming what it calls climate neutral. Some employees and former employees, however, think the UN could be doing much more to reduce the organization’s carbon footprint globally and to…
- Categories: Climate Change, Secretary-General
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- Opinion by Fiona Shukri
- • December 24, 2019
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The Christmas spirit finally found me drinking whisky on a rooftop in Kabul. Given my multinational background — I’m from Boston but my father came from Iraq and my mother from London — it’s not surprising that I chose…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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