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The Collateral Damage in Trump’s War on the WHO: Ending Polio for Good

June 15, 2020 
by Fiona Shukri
Families in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area
Already struggling with a surging Covid-19 pandemic, United Nations health agencies must now face the possible abdication of the United States’ leading role in fighting polio — just as the world gets tantalizingly close to eradicating it for good. Polio-free since 1979, the US has historically made combating the infectious disease its top funding …

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Biden’s Toughest Task: Linking Foreign Policy to a Changed America

June 10, 2020 
by Barbara Crossette
Joe Biden at Bethel AME Church Wilmington DE
With Joseph Biden taking an unassailable lead by June 7 as the Democratic Party’s choice for president of the United States, many Americans foresee a desperate, ugly political campaign for re-election by Donald Trump coming. The magnitude of his damage to America’s role in the world will be an issue for Democrats, along with …

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The IAEA Voices ‘Serious Concern’ Over Blocked Access to Certain Iranian Sites

June 8, 2020 
by Stephanie Liechtenstein
VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency issued an alarming report on June 5, voicing “serious concern” over Iran’s refusal to allow the agency’s inspectors to investigate two sites where the country is suspected of having conducted undeclared nuclear activities in the past. The report is unrelated to the agency’s quarterly updates on Iran’s …

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The Coronavirus vs. Multilateralism: Who Will Win?

June 4, 2020 
by Harris Gleckman and Georgios Kostakos
Covid-19 has pretty much shut down important negotiations at the United Nations, ranging from climate change to biodiversity. The General Assembly has not been able to meet as a group physically, but Security Council meetings have migrated online, with the Secretariat supporting the Council remotely and Secretary-General António Guterres and his people holding the …

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As Protests Sweep the US, the UN Tweets Platitudes

June 3, 2020 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Protest on the Brooklyn Bridge
In New York City, protesters swarm the roadway portion of the Brooklyn Bridge, heading from the City Hall area of lower Manhattan into Brooklyn. The crowd stopped incoming traffic, but there was no violence, May 30, 2020. JOHN PENNEY Amid curfews in New York City, constant marches and protests, sirens from the streets and …

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Trump Quits the World Health Organization. The Victim Is the United States.

May 29, 2020 
by Barbara Crossette
Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis, the reputation of the agency has been damaged far less than the image of the United States. That is, to judge by the reaction of global …

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Robbed of Their Island in the Indian Ocean, Chagossians Linger in a Pandemic-Shadowed Limbo

May 21, 2020 
by Stéphanie Fillion
Exactly one year ago, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling on Britain to return the Chagos Archipelago, a cluster of islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, an island-nation off the southeast coast of Africa. The resolution endorsed an International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion that had been …

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The US Plans to Prolong the Iran Arms Ban Through the UN, Where It Has Few Friends

May 20, 2020 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Israel on May 13 2020
The Trump administration may be bound and determined to extend a tight global arms embargo on Iran, but it still can’t send a straight message about how it will do so through the United Nations Security Council. The embargo, embedded in a Council resolution endorsing the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, expires in October. While …

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As the US Slams the WHO, It Is Giving Millions to Another UN Agency to Fight Covid-19

May 19, 2020 
by Stephanie Liechtenstein
On April 14, the US Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna issued a press release declaring that the State Department had contributed $11 million to a project fighting Covid-19 by the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA. The donation was mentioned by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a press briefing on May 6. …

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The UN’s Top Doc Checks Out to Return to Australia: Our Latest Podcast Episode

May 18, 2020 
by Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
Dr. Jillann Farmer managed her share of crises as the United Nations medical director since 2012, including the Ebola outbreak in 2014 in West Africa and the Syrian chemical attacks that occurred soon after that epidemic. In February, Dr. Farmer decided she was ready to move to a new job after more than seven years …

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