General Assembly
- Darsen Hover
- • March 18, 2024
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Did Palestine ever have a chance to gain its full rights as a state? In his new book, “The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity,” Ardi Imseis delves into …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • March 8, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: UN reforms for NGOs; sexual violence on Oct. 7; from A to Z: crimes by Israel. Plus: UNRWA; Haiti; US/Gaza Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn A gender reminder: PassBlue is a …
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- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • February 27, 2024
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As intense negotiations begin on the Pact for the Future — the highly anticipated outcome document to crown the Summit of the Future at the United Nations in September — long-term restructuring plans are playing out in constant tension with …
- Categories: General Assembly, Small States
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- Arthur Bassas
- • February 23, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Savoring the UN Charter; aid cuts harm women; prosecuting Putin. Plus: Russia-Ukraine war; US veto; Gaza; South Sudan; Houthis Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn Our top story this week: Aid Cuts Are …
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- Dawn Clancy
- • February 21, 2024
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As the United Nations marks the second year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine this week, big-power politics are still blocking the creation of an international special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression by Russia’s top leaders for their …
- Categories: General Assembly, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Arthur Bassas
- • February 9, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Unrwa allegations; the new Pact for the Future. Plus: Senegal; Haiti; Gaza; FGM. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our thanks to everyone who has donated to PassBlue, a nonprofit media site, …
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- Opinion by Florence Syevuo and Dan Perell
- • February 7, 2024
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The zero draft of the Pact for the Future — the agreement to seal September’s much-anticipated Summit of the Future — was introduced recently by the co-facilitators, Namibia and Germany, to fellow members at the United Nations. The draft is …
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 26, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Azerbaijan to lead COP29; Gaza’s garbage pileup; US envoy loves Liberia. Plus: UN Security Council meeting on ICJ ruling; Yemen, Haiti, Gaza. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our most-read story of …
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- Clair MacDougall
- • January 24, 2024
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MONROVIA, Liberia — Linda Thomas-Greenfield, ambassador to the United Nations, led the United States delegation to the inauguration of Joseph Nyumah Boakai, the newly elected president of Liberia. The West African nation remains one of the US’ few remaining democratic …
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Security Council
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 19, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Uganda’s teenage-motherhood saga; don’t forget Ukraine; Israel’s takeover plan for the Egyptian-Gaza border. Plus: AI, Sudan, Zambia. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our most-read story of the week: Give Peace a …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 12, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Remember Nikki Haley?; Summit of the Future; South Africa’s genocide case; interviewing the General Assembly president. Plus: Somalia, Cabo Verde, Yemen and Gaza. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn • As a nonprofit media site, PassBlue relies on …
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- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • January 11, 2024
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In September 2023, as global warming and the concerns of small states increasingly populate debates at the United Nations, Dennis Francis became the third president of the General Assembly from the Caribbean. We talked to Francis in December, a quarter …
- Categories: Caribbean, Climate Change, General Assembly, Small States
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- Opinion by Richard Ponzio
- • January 8, 2024
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At long last, after the UN75 Declaration, Secretary-General António Guterres’s Our Common Agenda, a General Assembly modalities resolution, the High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism report and a decision by the president of the General Assembly regarding the scope of …
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Arthur Bassas
- • December 22, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Afghan women are dying en route to the hospital or in it. Why invoke Article 99 of the UN Charter? The UN relief agency is not the problem in Gaza. Plus: The Congo and Sudan. Follow …
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- Opinion by Moncef Khane
- • December 18, 2023
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On Day 60 of Israel’s offensive on Gaza, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took a rare initiative — invoking Article 99 of the UN Charter “to bring to the attention of the Security Council a matter, which in my opinion, …
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