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- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 19, 2021
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The United States jumps back into the Paris Agreement; the Security Council tackles climate-security risks (for now); a new UN envoy’s letter from the past returns to haunt him. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, General Assembly, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 12, 2021
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The US returns to the Human Rights Council; atrocities documented in the Mali conflict; a woman declares her candidacy for UN secretary-general. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization. The…
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • February 11, 2021
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Arora Akanksha, a 34-year-old staff member who works as an audit coordinator for the United Nations Development Program, has announced her candidacy for the job of UN secretary-general, so far the only person to challenge António Guterres, the incumbent….
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 5, 2021
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A coup staged in Myanmar; the UN’s first unofficial feminist dies; Aleksei Navalny’s sentencing. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from the UN spokesperson’s press…
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 27, 2021
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Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond has just been named as the United Nations first-ever technology envoy. Hochschild, a Chilean national who has been with the UN since 1988, has served the organization in numerous jobs in the field, starting in Sudan,…
- Categories: Gender Violence, General Assembly, Human Rights
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 27, 2021
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, appearing before a Senate committee confirmation hearing on Jan. 27 for her nomination as United States envoy to the United Nations, handled a barrage of Republican accusations that the new Biden administration and she were not tough…
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • January 15, 2021
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres pursues a second term; a total of six peacekeepers were killed in Mali and the Central African Republic; Britain helps raise $1 billion for the UN’s Covax vaccine program. You are reading This Week…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • January 8, 2021
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The United States Capitol stormed by pro-Trump rioters; a legendary UN diplomat dies at 101; Islamist jihadists blamed for fatal assault in Niger. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization….
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Libya, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, UN Diplomats, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Navi Pillay and Ruth Dreifuss
- • December 17, 2020
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MADRID — A record-breaking vote on a resolution for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty has been passed by the United Nations General Assembly, with 123 countries in favor, 38 voting against and 24 abstaining. The…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Ben Donaldson
- • November 29, 2020
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LONDON — This time five years ago, Mogens Lykketoft, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, was working with members of the Security Council to create the first open process to appoint the next secretary-general, after the adoption…
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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- Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • November 12, 2020
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A new governance study has confirmed what many United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund observers have long surmised: there are significant variances between the fund’s own operations and best practices and those of pension funds elsewhere. The areas reviewed…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Pension Fund
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 10, 2020
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When it comes to power and influence in the United Nations system, the president of the General Assembly has little control beyond a procedural role in managing an often-fractious body of member nations, now numbering 193, each with policies…
- Categories: Gender Violence, General Assembly, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 31, 2020
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A scandal involving a Norwegian diplomat erupts; Covid-19 rears its head at the United Nations; and who could become its 194th member state? Greetings from This Week @UN, highlights of the most important news on the world body. The information…
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 28, 2020
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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
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 26, 2020
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As the United Nations turns 75 years old this month, it is worth noting that its membership has more than tripled — almost quadrupled — since its founding in 1945. From 50 signatories at the San Francisco conference that…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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