Lorraine Boissoneault
Lorraine Boissoneault is a graduate student at the Columbia University School of Journalism, with a magazine concentration. She has reported on immigration issues, public housing and the waterfront environment, and her articles have been published in The Brooklyn Paper, City Limits and Narratively.
Boissoneault is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she earned a B.A. in international studies and English/creative writing. She speaks French and conversational Mandarin and has studied Arabic and Italian.
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • May 8, 2013
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As the Syrian government increasingly resorts to using heavy armaments and long-distance aircraft — and possibly chemical weapons — to attack the opposition movement and other enemies, the risk of children being killed or maimed in the fighting has…
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, Refugees, Security Council
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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • April 11, 2013
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For the first time, the United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution allowing UN troops to go on the offensive in a mission against armed rebels. The combat intervention brigade will operate as part of the UN…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • April 2, 2013
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A new network of women academics from Australia and New Zealand is keeping a close eye on Australia’s new two-year term as an elected member of the United Nations Security Council. The academics have organized a collective to track…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • March 20, 2013
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With the deadline for the departure of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan just a year away, civilian casualties in the country remain alarmingly high, says a new report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama). Although…
- Categories: Asia, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • February 26, 2013
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Gold is now one of the most problematic conflict minerals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and United Nations Security Council sanctions on the illegal mining of natural resources, including gold, have done little to prevent smugglers from…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • February 21, 2013
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The president of the International Criminal Court, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, told a Columbia University audience recently that a major challenge facing the court is what he called a steady lack of political support from the United Nations Security…
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Security Council
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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • February 7, 2013
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The sounds of drums and chanting outside the United Nations in New York battled to be heard over traffic recently. In a continuation of rallies and demonstrations held in front of the UN earlier in January, seven Native American…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights
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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • January 31, 2013
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The United Nations is expecting a fresh humanitarian upheaval in Mali as people who have been living since last spring in refugee camps in neighboring nations in West Africa or who relocated to the capital, Bamako, start streaming back…
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- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • January 21, 2013
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With the start of a new year, the eradication of hunger remains one of the world’s biggest challenges. Despite decades of aid work and development, overall world hunger remains at a serious level, and 20 countries have alarming or…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Development, Humanitarian Aid, Women
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