Caribbean
- Damilola Banjo
- • October 24, 2022
After weeks of negotiations and delayed voting, the United Nations Security Council overwhelmingly agreed to sanction Jimmy Cherizier and other gang leaders accused of raping and terrorizing Haitian people. The sanctions were approved on Oct. 21 in a resolution…
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • May 4, 2022
Xiomara Castro, Honduras’s first woman president, is brandishing an ambitious agenda whose top priorities include reforming the Constitution and elevating women’s rights. Yet the success of Castro, a 62-year-old former first lady, depends heavily on how well she manages…
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Latin America, Migration, Women
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • January 28, 2022
A coup in West Africa; a recap of Biden’s first year at the UN; a US-Russia showdown coming to the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 26, 2022
At a moment past midnight on Nov. 30, the island nation of Barbados severed its last direct links to colonial Britain and became a republic to the celebratory music of brass bands and Caribbean steel drums. Queen Elizabeth II,…
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 8, 2021
On the seafloor, anemones with eight-foot-long tentacles live alongside blind crabs that cultivate food in their arm hair, sharks with glow-in-the-dark bellies and glass sponges that have been thriving since before the invention of the wheel. “Because of the…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Climate Change, UN Agencies
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • November 2, 2021
Mexico has only one chance in its two-year term to shine as president of the Security Council, and it’s this month. While all eyes are now focusing on Glasgow, Scotland, and the United Nations-led COP26 meeting on climate change,…
- Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, Migration, Refugees, Security Council Presidency
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 4, 2021
In October, the United Nations Security Council diplomats are packing up their suitcases and hopping on an overseas flight to the Sahel region of West Africa to assess the serious challenges that this semiarid strip is countering. It is…
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Latin America, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency, Terrorism
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 29, 2021
A wealth of resources lies beneath international waters, including cobalt, copper, manganese and other minerals used to power smart phones and other technology. Safeguarding “the common heritage of mankind,” as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Climate Change
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 23, 2021
If you have understandably faded from the UNGA76 gathering by now, here are highlights for Day 3 of global leaders’ speeches, held on Sept. 23. We’ve also included Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s late-night remarks on Sept. 22 in the…
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Climate Change, General Assembly, Health and Population, Terrorism, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
- Gabrielle Alves
- • April 7, 2021
RIO DE JANEIRO — Regional cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean is declining, with intergovernmental organizations, such as the Organization of American States and Mercosur, nearly paralyzed or underperforming because of political divergences among member states, weak commitments…
- Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 13, 2020
An Afghan midwife saving lives in her country; the UN secretary-general congratulates US president-elect Joe Biden (sort of); a new gender group with a questionable purpose. You are reading This Week @UN, highlighting the most important news on the world…
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Secretary-General, This Week @UN
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 6, 2020
Are we there yet? The United States still awaits final presidential election results; one of the United Nations’ smallest countries leads the Security Council; and presidential election violence in Côte d’Ivoire. You are reading This Week @UN, highlighting the most…
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • November 2, 2020
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines may be the smallest country to ever sit on the Security Council, but it doesn’t mean it is intimidated by the big powers. Instead, the island nation is already amplifying the voices of Africa…
- Categories: Caribbean, Security Council Presidency
- Beatrice Lindstrom  and Joey Bui
- • October 30, 2020
Ten years ago this month, Haiti confirmed the arrival of a deadly cholera epidemic that killed more than 10,000 people. The disease — and the United Nations’ response to it — has caused immeasurable harm in Haiti and undermined…
- Categories: Caribbean, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Fiona Shukri
- • August 4, 2020
As Covid-19 continues to ravage many parts of the world, the effect of the virus in Latin America and the Caribbean region has been particularly devastating. The situation in Haiti, for example, has alarmed international humanitarian groups, as the…
- Categories: Caribbean, Covid-19, Human Rights
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