Covid-19
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 27, 2021
On the last day of global leaders’ speeches at the opening of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, the array of countries on the roster ranged from Israel to Iceland, from Algeria to North Korea, from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Covid-19, General Assembly, UNGA76, US Foreign Relations
- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • August 31, 2021
As just about every expert agrees, breast milk beats formula on every score, from the health of the baby to out-of-pocket costs. But that hasn’t stopped formula makers from pushing their products, cutting deeply into breastfeeding rates around the…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, Human Rights
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • August 10, 2021
As outbreaks of Covid-19 cases spike again in many places worldwide, the United Nations Secretariat in New York City faces reopening decisions that pit some staff members’ interests against those of UN member states. Pressure is coming from UN…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Agencies
- Clair MacDougall
- • May 10, 2021
Liberian Dr. James Soka Moses remembers the West African region’s devastating Ebola outbreak as if it were yesterday: the roaring ambulances, the patients lying on the floor and spilling outside of treatment facilities, the smell of vomit and the…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Health and Population
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 6, 2021
During more than a year of tracking the parameters of Covid-19, medical science has made one thing clear: the virus hits the elderly hardest. Yet their vulnerability is often taken as fate. A new international study disagrees. Prejudice, institutional…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, SDGs
- 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
- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 15, 2021
Even with vaccines steadily rolling out in many countries, the end of the Covid-19 pandemic is hardly on the horizon. As countries continue to weave in and out of shutdowns, curfews, virus variants and new deadly waves, the travel and tourism…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, UN Agencies
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 28, 2020
After finally reopening the United Nations Security Council chamber to physical meetings in October, the UN just announced that five members of one national delegation have tested positive for Covid-19. That means ending all in-person meetings in the Council…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Health and Population
- Tatiana Carayannis  and Thomas G. Weiss
- • October 19, 2020
This week we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, as the Covid-19 pandemic highlights our interdependence and the need for global cooperation. Enthusiasm for it, however, is in short supply amid deteriorating Washington-Beijing relations, Brexit and rising…
- Categories: Climate Change, Covid-19, Governance, Health and Population, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 31, 2020
For nearly two years, an international group of 17 specialists on the finance frontier have been connecting digital technologies to new sources of money for the faltering Sustainable Development Goals. On Aug. 26, they unveiled an ambitious report on…
- Categories: Covid-19, Development, SDGs
- Kjell Engelbrekt
- • August 28, 2020
STOCKHOLM — For those of us who have tried to keep up with the international commentary on Sweden’s response to Covid-19 during the last months, it has been bewildering. As Sweden failed to contain the coronavirus at its borders…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • August 26, 2020
“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…
- Categories: Covid-19, Human Rights, Refugees, US Foreign Relations
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • August 25, 2020
If pundits were to be believed earlier in August, there was a chance for a historic vice-presidential debate in 2020: two women of color facing off for the second-highest position in the United States. The speculation was that Nikki…
- Categories: Covid-19, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • August 17, 2020
The devastating series of explosions that rocked Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Aug. 4, killed nearly 200 people, injured thousands of others, destroyed most of the city’s port, flattened surrounding neighborhoods, damaged six hospitals and more than 20…
- Categories: Covid-19, Middle East, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Rhona Scullion
- • August 11, 2020
Just four months ago, Sudan took the monumental step to ban female genital mutilation, a painful, unnecessary and dangerous procedure that leaves lasting scars. Generally carried out on girls before they reach puberty, genital mutilation is now punishable in…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Gender Violence, SDGs
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