Asia

• 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 54 members could agree on a resolution led by the US to oust Iran from …

Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women

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Will the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council Send a Strong Message to Iran?

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 linked to demonstrations. Not only are countries levying new sanctions on individuals and entities implicated …

Asia, General Assembly, Human Rights, Middle East, Security Council

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THIS WEEK @UN

Trending UN News: Week Ending Nov. 11

Damilola Banjo

• November 11, 2022

This week, world leaders are gathering in Egypt to renew their commitments to sustainable climate conditions. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, we look at conversations led by UN Secretary-General António …

Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War

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Trending UN News: Week Ending Oct. 7

Damilola Banjo

• October 7, 2022

This week, we bring you good news from Sierra Leone, one of the first countries in West Africa to roll out the human papilloma virus vaccine as part of routine immunization for girls. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press …

Asia, Climate Change, General Assembly, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War

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Day 5, UN General Assembly’s Big Week: Mali, China and Russia Squeezed Into One Morning

Joe Penney

• September 24, 2022

On the next-to-last day of the globe’s largest talkfest by world leaders, Sept. 24, the United Nations may have been quiet and most of the police barricades may have been dismantled outside, but inside the Assembly Hall, two powerful, stern foreign ministers — Wang Yi of China and Sergey Lavrov of Russia — dispelled …

Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Peace and Security, Secretary-General

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Day 2, UN General Assembly’s Big Week: Russia’s War on Ukraine Dominates

Dawn Clancy

• September 21, 2022

On Day 2 of the “high-level” week, featuring many of the world’s heads of state and government, President Joe Biden shared the forum with a diverse roster of speakers, who stood at the rostrum, one by one, stretching from the early morning to late evening on the cusp of the fall equinox, in New …

Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Latin America, Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War, US Foreign Relations

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WORLDVIEWS

The Afghanistan We Long to See: A Place Where the Rights of Women and Girls Are Restored

Geraldine Byrne Nason

• August 14, 2022

Today marks a dark anniversary — one year since Kabul fell to the Taliban. As Ireland’s ambassador to the United Nations, I have always said I will judge the Taliban by their actions, not by their words. Their actions in the last year speak of absolute contempt for the rights of the Afghan people, …

Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS

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SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENCY

China’s Mum on Myanmar as It Leads the Security Council

Damilola Banjo

• August 4, 2022

Myanmar’s military junta has extended its state of emergency by six months, a year and a half after it overthrew the democratically elected government in a February 2021 coup. The ruling was announced on Aug. 1, the same day that Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, presented his country’s program of …

Asia, Security Council Presidency

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Trending UN News: Week Ending June 24

Damilola Banjo

• June 24, 2022

This week, we focus on two crises in Africa: never-ending deadly setbacks of peacekeeping and the humanitarian needs on the continent. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, we look at the …

Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN

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Regional Rifts in Southeast Asia Stall Action on Myanmar as Atrocities Soar

Barbara Crossette

• June 19, 2022

Among governments and international organizations worldwide there is a refrain that the catastrophic collapse of Myanmar is a regional problem to be solved primarily by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The 10-member group, known as Asean, remains deeply split, however, and the fissure seems to be hardening. On one side of the arguments …

Asia, General Assembly, Secretary-General

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Invisible in Afghanistan and Forgotten by the International Community?

Asila Wardak

• June 13, 2022

Over the last 20 years, the United States and other global powers pumped money and military aid into Afghanistan, only to see it disappear when militarism proved untenable and ineffective. Now, as Afghanistan endures a state of emergency, those same global powers offer sympathy for the people of our country without taking responsibility for …

Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women

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WOMEN AS CHANGEMAKERS

Reporting in Afghanistan: Listen, Ask Questions. You Are Not the Story, an Award-Winning Journalist Says

Barbara Crossette

• May 30, 2022

Kathy Gannon never wanted to be a journalist. That changed when she was urged by a journalist brother to give the profession a try. She became a successful reporter and editor of local newspapers in Ontario and British Columbia. With that experience, she ventured into the Middle East, Central Asia and finally into colorful, …

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Trending UN News: Week Ending May 27

Damilola Banjo

• May 27, 2022

This week, UN peacekeepers are commemorated, an ex-UN staff member is convicted for assault and lying to the FBI and the war in Ukraine enters its third month. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other …

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WORLDVIEWS

Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine Has Major Implications Throughout East Asia

Yasuhiro Ueki

• April 4, 2022

Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military attack on Ukraine has not only undermined the basic norms and tenets of the international order based on the United Nations Charter but it has also provoked strategic recalculations of international relations in the rest of the world, including in East Asia. The Russian invasion has pushed Japan firmly …

Asia, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS

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India’s Stance on Ukraine and Where Modi’s Geopolitics Go Next

Barbara Crossette

• March 13, 2022

In India, a country of probing and often rambunctious political debate, another chapter in the “who we are” story has started in the wake of what President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is calling a Russian “war of annihilation” of his country. Speculation about India’s international posture runs on two separate, parallel tracks. Globally, India, …

Asia, General Assembly, Security Council

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