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 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. Guerrero studied journalism in Mexico City, followed by postgraduate work on print media at the Thomson Foundation in Cardiff, Wales.

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COVID-19

In Mexico, the UN Refugee Agency Alleviates a Crisis Created by the Trump Administration

August 26, 2020

by Maurizio Guerrero

“Yes, there’s always the fear of being kidnapped,” said Óscar, a 30-year old asylum seeker who fled political persecution in Cuba in May 2019 and landed in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, where violent crime and gang activity are common. Óscar, who used a pseudonym to protect his privacy, knew of asylum …

Covid-19, Human Rights, Refugees, US Foreign Relations

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

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Syrian Women Win Active Role in Geneva Peace Conference

January 22, 2014

by Maurizio Guerrero and Dulcie Leimbach

The United Nations-led peace talks in Switzerland to begin the laborious discussions to end the war in Syria have officially started, but Syrian women activists who have been demanding to sit at the crucial peace-talks table on Jan. 24 in Geneva did not know until the last minute whether any women would be involved. …

Middle East, Peace and Security, Women

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Maurizio Guerrero

Maurizio Guerrero

In Mexico, the UN Refugee Agency Alleviates a Crisis Created by the Trump Administration

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

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

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

Politics and Understaffing Delay US Funding to the Main UN Budgets

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

Betting on a Data Revolution to Help Manage UN Development Goals

The UN Leaves Women’s Rights Defenders in the Cold

The New War on Drugs: Regulation From Cultivation to Consumption

Syrian Women Win Active Role in Geneva Peace Conference

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