• March 11, 2013

Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda who was killed by United States Navy Seal forces on May 2, 2011, in Pakistan, was at last officially removed from the international sanctions list by the United Nations last month. What took so long? At the UN, the answer is almost always in the procedures. The …

Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council

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US Envoy for Global Women’s Issues Leaves for Georgetown

Dulcie Leimbach

• February 22, 2013

Melanne Verveer, most recently the United States ambassador at large for global women’s issues, is the new executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, which officially opened Feb. 21. Verveer had been appointed to the government post, the first of its kind for the country, by President Obama when it …

GOINGS-ON, Women

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Pakistan Formally Complains to India on Gunfire in Kashmir

Dulcie Leimbach

• January 11, 2013

Pakistan has lodged a formal complaint on the “repeated, unacceptable and unprovoked attacks” on Pakistani soldiers by the Indian army, said a statement released on Jan. 11 from the foreign secretary, Jalil Abbas Jilani. He has summoned the high commissioner of India, Sharat Sabharwal, to the Foreign Office and lodged the protest after Indian …

Asia, Security Council

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Holiday Gifts Reduced at the UN: Pick Your Country

Dulcie Leimbach

• December 18, 2012

The United Nations Gift Center is relocating, along with the UN post office and bookstore, to the Dag Hammarskjold Library building by April or May for the continuing renovation of the UN, including the lower lobby area. The gift shop, post office and book store will still be accessible to the public in their …

GOINGS-ON

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Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the UN, to Stay Put for Now

Dulcie Leimbach

• December 13, 2012

President Obama announced that Susan Rice, US ambassador to the United Nations, has asked to have her name removed from consideration for US secretary of state. Hillary Clinton, who holds the position now, said she was leaving the post in 2013. “For two decades, Susan has proven to be an extraordinarily capable, patriotic, and …

US-UN Relations

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Tough Love Time for the UN

Dulcie Leimbach

• September 3, 2012

Even though Ban Ki-moon just began his second five-year term this year as United Nations secretary-general, names are already surfacing as to his possible replacement when his term is up. Technically, Ban could be appointed a third term, but no secretary-general so far has held three. Most UN academic experts who were surveyed for …

Secretary-General, US-UN Relations

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World Bank President Takes Some Questions

Dulcie Leimbach

• August 8, 2012

Jim Yong Kim, an American doctor who was born in Korea, began his new job as World Bank president in July. In this World Bank video, he answers a sundry of the 1,000 questions his office has received worldwide on the economy, jobs, gender equality and other topics. The World Bank is part of …

Development

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New Spokeswoman Joining US Mission to the UN

Dulcie Leimbach

• July 20, 2012

Susan Rice, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, announced to the UN press corps on July 20 that Mark Kornblau, her spokesman and the spokesman for the US mission since 2009, is leaving and will be succeeded by Erin Pelton, a director of communications and assistant press secretary for the National Security …

GOINGS-ON, UN Diplomats, US-UN Relations

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Top New UN Assignments, and Syria Deputy Envoy Leaving

Dulcie Leimbach

• July 18, 2012

Adama Dieng, the registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, has been named the United Nations secretary-general’s special adviser on the prevention of genocide. Dieng, a Senegalese, replaces Francis Deng of Sudan, who has been in the post since 2007 as an under secretary-general and is a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Institution …

Child Soldiers, GOINGS-ON

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ICC Staff Members Released in Libya

Dulcie Leimbach

• July 2, 2012

Libyan authorities have released the four International Criminal Court staff members who have been held in Zintan after their visit on June 7, 2012, to Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the son of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, to notify him of his legal rights. Qaddafi, in custody by Zintan militias, has been charged with crimes against humanity …

ICC, Libya

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Edward Luck, Responsibility to Protect Expert, Returns to Academia

Dulcie Leimbach

• June 16, 2012

Edward Luck, who has been the special adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the responsibility to protect doctrine within the prevention of genocide office since 2008, will become the dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego, a private Roman Catholic school, on …

GOINGS-ON

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Three Diplomats Talk, Unscripted

Dulcie Leimbach

• May 28, 2012

Three diplomats, from the United Nations missions of Jamaica, Pakistan and Uganda, were interviewed this spring by CUNY Graduate School of Journalism students. The diplomats focused on topics relevant to their countries and regions and spoke unscripted. The Ugandan ambassador responded to the video about Joseph Kony, the leader of the brutal Lord’s Resistance …

UN Diplomats

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Mosque of Sankoré in Timbuktu, Mali

Dulcie Leimbach

• May 5, 2012

[singlepic id=1 w=200 h=150 ] Mosque of Sankoré in Timbuktu, Mali. Preview of photo essay on Unesco sites and other treasures in Timbuktu Unesco Photo by Franscesco Bandarin …

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Romney’s New Adviser Resigns

Dulcie Leimbach

• May 1, 2012

Richard A. Grenell, who was hired just last month as national security and foreign policy spokesman for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign staff, caused a big stir in political and journalism arenas for his harsh views. Now he is causing another stir: he resigned today from the Romney camp, and media reports are suggesting he …

GOINGS-ON

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A Possible Replacement for UN Political Affairs Chief

Dulcie Leimbach

• April 30, 2012

Jeffrey Feltman, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs at the US State Department, is said to be replacing B. Lynn Pascoe, the United Nations’ under secretary-general for political affairs, who has served for five years. The announcement has not been made formally by the UN, but it was reported in UN Forum, …