Maurizio Guerrero

Maurizio Guerrero is the senior writer in New York and at the United Nations for Proceso, a political newsweekly based in Mexico, for which he writes on topics ranging from international diplomacy and climate change to immigration and criminal justice. Guerrero also regularly publishes in Forbes Mexico. For 10 years, he was the New York bureau chief for the Mexican newswire agency Notimex. His book on migrants' representation in the Mexican Congress is scheduled to be released this spring. Guerrero studied journalism in Mexico City, followed by postgraduate work on print media at the Thomson Foundation in Cardiff, Wales.

COVID-19

Picturing a Post-Pandemic World Where Latin American Women Are Safe

May 14, 2020

by Maurizio Guerrero

Long before Covid-19, Latin American women suffered from a pandemic of violence. Now, amid lockdowns, domestic abuse is rising. As the region battles both the virus and domestic abuse, women’s advocates see a glimmer of hope in innovative protective measures set up by governments and women’s groups that could endure well into the future. …

Covid-19, Gender-Based Violence

Amnesty International, Covid_19, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, feminism, gender equality, gender inequality, Latin America, Madre, Mujeres de la Matria Latinoamericana, sexual violence, UN Women, violence against women, women's rights

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COVID-19

Africans Struggle to Be a Unified Force in the UN Security Council, Complicated by the Coronavirus

April 13, 2020

by Maurizio Guerrero

The three elected members that represent Africa on the United Nations Security Council generally present a unified front on the continent’s numerous challenges — many involving foreign intervention — that land on the Council’s agenda. The problem for Africans is that the big world powers routinely ignore them. The other problem is that Africans …

Africa, Covid-19, Security Council

A3 and UN, African Union, African Union Peace and Security Council, China and Africa relations, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Richard Gowan, South Africa and the Security Council, UN Security Council

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As Kenya and Djibouti Fight Over a UN Security Council Seat, China Pops Up

January 24, 2020

by Maurizio Guerrero

Djibouti is vying with Kenya to win an elected seat in the United Nations Security Council for the 2021-22 term among the African bloc. The candidacy contest for the current open seat has revealed a rare open disagreement between African nations that is linked to China’s control in parts of the continent. The African …

Africa, Security Council

African Union, China in Africa, Djibouti mission to the UN, Kenya mission to the UN, UN Security Council elections

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Politics and Understaffing Delay US Funding to the Main UN Budgets

December 3, 2019

by Maurizio Guerrero

Politics and understaffing are the main reasons the United States has still not paid its outstanding dues to the general budget of the United Nations, after much news coverage of the problem in early October. The UN is experiencing an unprecedented financial crisis that threatens its peacekeeping operations globally and severely hampers its work …

UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations

António Guterres, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Peter Yeo, UN budgets, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, UN Foundation, US arrears to UN, US-UN relations

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Master of Science in Humanitarian Studies at Fordham University

What Do UN Staff Members Want From the Next Secretary-General?

August 24, 2016

by Maurizio Guerrero

While the United Nations approaches a major change at the top in selecting a new secretary-general for the next five years and conflicts across the globe continue to erupt, criticisms of UN management seem only to grow. The topic of management skills of the next secretary-general came up repeatedly during the public hearings held …

Secretary-General, UN Agencies

Ban Ki-moon, Barbara Tavora-Jainchill, Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the UN system, ILO, Irka Kuleshnyk, Public Service International, UN Department of Management, UN secretary-general, UN Secretary-General race, UN's New York Staff Union, Yukio Takasu

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Betting on a Data Revolution to Help Manage UN Development Goals

April 27, 2015

by Maurizio Guerrero

The United Nations is positioning itself to turn the vast amount of digital data generated by users all over the world into a key source of information to help write and track the goals for the post-2015 development agenda. The aim is to seize for development purposes data generated by individuals through digital networks, …

Development, Sustainable Development Goals

Addis Ababa Conference for Financing for Development, Claire Melamed, Enrico Giovannini, Global Pulse, Open Data Watch, Overseas Development Institute, Robert Kirkpatrick of Global Pulse, SDGs, Shaida Badiee, UN Data Revolution initiative

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The UN Leaves Women’s Rights Defenders in the Cold

March 20, 2015

by Maurizio Guerrero

For all its words about human rights and women’s issues, the United Nations has so far given lukewarm political support to defenders of gender rights worldwide — particularly women who defend women’s rights, a dangerous occupation in many regions. These women generally work in challenging circumstances, and their hard-won victories, by their own accounts, …

General Assembly, Human Rights, Women

Afghan Women's Network, Cristina Hardaga Fernández, CSW 2015, CSW59, Hans Brattskar, JASS, Just Associates, Margaret Sekaggya, Mary Akrami, Mozn Hassan, Nazra for Feminist Studies, UN Resolution on women's rights defenders, women's rights defenders

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BOOKS

The New War on Drugs: Regulation From Cultivation to Consumption

March 17, 2014

by Maurizio Guerrero

The first day this year began with one of the most surprising achievements in the push against the prohibition of drugs in the United States. In Colorado, thousands of people bought cannabis legally after decades of harsh restrictive laws since the so-called war on drugs had been put in place in the 1980s by …