Kourosh Ziabari
Kourosh Ziabari is an award-winning Iranian journalist and an Asia Times correspondent. A recipient of the Chevening Scholarship from Britain's Foreign Office, he is a 2022 World Press Institute fellow with the University of St. Thomas and a Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists fellow with the United Nations. He was recently selected as the silver winner of the Prince Albert II of Monaco and UN Correspondents Association Global Prize for Coverage of Climate Change. He contributes to Foreign Policy, openDemocracy, Middle East Eye, Responsible Statecraft, The New Arab and Al-Monitor. His Twitter account: https://twitter.com/KZiabari
- Kourosh Ziabari
- • February 13, 2023
As the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is fast approaching, a draft resolution is circulating among the United Nations’ 193 countries emphasizing the need for a “just and lasting peace” for Ukraine, while Western diplomats are…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
- Kourosh Ziabari
- • December 1, 2022
The United States wants Iran kicked off the United Nations body mandated since 1946 to empower women and promote gender equality. Through a request to hold a vote in the UN’s Economic and Social Council on Dec. 14, the…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
- Kourosh Ziabari
- • November 22, 2022
Leaders of major democracies are intensifying their denunciations of the Iranian government for its continued brutal crackdown on the protests in the country, which are moving into their third month as Iran has issued four death sentences so far…
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly, Human Rights, Middle East, Security Council
- Kourosh Ziabari
- • November 9, 2022
Iran’s new ambassador to the United Nations stunned journalists recently when he read a contentious statement to them in response to an informal Security Council meeting on the current protests in Iran. The envoy delivered his remarks to…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations
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