Cities
- Deborah Baldwin
- • May 25, 2022
There are not many things that United Nations members can all agree on, but who can contest the glories of the humble bike? With its narrow frame, tiny carbon footprint and ample contributions to health and well-being, the bike…
- Categories: Cities, Climate Change, General Assembly
- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 7, 2021
As the world adapted slowly to the Covid-19 pandemic, most companies around the world pivoted from in-person work to having people work from home. Many found they were putting in longer hours, a trend that could spell an increase…
- Categories: Cities, Health and Population
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 13, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic anniversary; digitally recruiting women to run for the United Nations’ top job; International Women’s Day, a bit of a downer. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Migration, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • March 10, 2021
Through the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, Beirut was spared the catastrophic caseloads that brought many cities around the world to their knees throughout the spring and early summer of 2020, but the port blast on Aug. 4…
- Categories: Cities, Covid-19, Health and Population
- Jeroen Spangenberg
- • August 12, 2019
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands — Record heat waves have crippled a number of cities this summer, one most visibly the Netherlands’ second largest, Rotterdam. Experts point to climate change. According to new data widely reported from the World Meteorological Organization…
- Categories: Cities, Climate Change
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 13, 2019
Improving the lives of women is woven into each of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, markers that all 193 member states aim to reach by 2030. Goal 5 is quite specific: nothing short of gender equality. Attaining…
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 26, 2017
When Donald Trump, defying science and public opinion, reversed American policy and announced in June that the United States would leave the universally endorsed 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, his decision may have given more impetus to a…
- Categories: BOOKS, Cities, Climate Change
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 31, 2017
The public furor and enormous protests by many thousands of Americans nationwide have led experts to try to explain where the decisions made by Donald Trump fall short of legality in both national and international law. From Hollywood to…
- Categories: Cities, Geopolitics, Human Rights, Middle East, Migration, Refugees, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 9, 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO — Throughout Brazil, it’s not uncommon to come across posters, billboards and advertisements on buses and in subways showing women and men holding cellphones and this message: “Violência contra as mulheres? Eu logo 180: Violence against…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Women
- Irwin Arieff
- • August 18, 2015
CAPE TOWN — Declarations that people have a right to adequate housing are a dime a dozen. Among the many documents spelling out or elaborating on this right are the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant…
- Amy Wu
- • July 27, 2015
A trio of megatrends that could radically change the makeup of cities around the world is about to converge. “You have two very powerful trends,” says John Wilmoth, director of the United Nations Population Division. “There’s aging of population…
- Categories: Cities, Health and Population, Women
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