Governance
- Opinion by Richard Ponzio
- • April 3, 2023
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The formal preparations for the September 2024 Summit of the Future, to be held at the United Nations, are underway. Responding to an update in February on the “Our Common Agenda” vision proposed by Secretary-General António Guterres, a large…
- Categories: Development, General Assembly, Governance, OPINIONS, UN Agencies
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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 20, 2023
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LAGOS — A women-focused organization is seeking to increase funding for Nigerian women who want to participate in politics. In a country with only 6.4 percent of women taking active roles in public office, the organization understands the challenges…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Women
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- Remmy Bahati
- • December 5, 2022
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President Joseph Biden has invited 49 African national leaders and the head of the African Union to the White House this month for a summit emphasizing America’s “enduring” commitment to the continent and continued collaboration on such global priorities…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 24, 2022
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This week, we focus on two crises in Africa: never-ending deadly setbacks of peacekeeping and the humanitarian needs on the continent. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Dawn Clancy
- • January 5, 2022
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After four hours of torture, Flora Igoki Terah arrived at Nairobi Women’s Hospital on Sept. 7, 2007, with smashed bones, a shaven head and clumps of human feces jammed in her throat. Months before the attack, Terah’s torturers sent…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Governance, Women
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- Mikaela Conley
- • November 22, 2021
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BERLIN — As the daughter of Iraqi political refugees, Reem Alabali-Radovan has always felt that she would go into politics, though she imagined herself playing a background role. That thinking changed two years ago, when a far-right extremist killed…
- Categories: Governance
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- Opinion by Richard Ponzio and Joris Larik
- • September 13, 2021
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A year ago, as Covid-19 took its toll on countless lives and livelihoods and presented yet another reminder of how global crises inevitably require global cooperation and solutions, world leaders convened virtually to endorse a declaration marking the United…
- Categories: Governance, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Secretary-General
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- Opinion by Richard Ponzio and Cristina Petcu
- • June 21, 2021
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Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change crises, extremist violence and social unrest, the specter of cross-border economic shocks and increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, the UN75 Declaration, adopted by world leaders last September, was an important first…
- Categories: Governance, OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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- Mikaela Conley
- • May 17, 2021
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BERLIN — In the seating snub heard round the world, the first woman president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was not offered a chair in April while meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and European Council President Charles…
- Categories: Governance, Women
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- Mona Ali Khalil
- • January 14, 2021
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The world watched on Jan. 6, 2021, as thousands of the most extreme supporters of President Donald Trump marched on the United States Capitol after hearing his rallying cry to “fight” and “take back” the country. Inside the Capitol,…
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 11, 2020
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A United Nations convoy was shot at in Ethiopia’s Tigray region; Southeast Asia’s progress on the women, peace and security agenda; the United States brokers a deal with Morocco in exchange for loss of Western Sahara’s sovereignty. You’re reading…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Governance, Health and Population, This Week @UN
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 4, 2020
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Covid-19 and its vaccine get their own special session; steps to select the next United Nations leader must begin; pressure builds on the United States to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Governance, Health and Population, This Week @UN
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • December 1, 2020
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Recent events in Hong Kong should alert those people who hope that economic development can lead to democratic change. A few weeks ago, the territory’s fragile democratic order took another hit when opposition members of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council…
- Categories: Asia, Governance, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 27, 2020
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The United States embraces diplomacy again; human-rights warnings in Ethiopia; who is the US nominee for UN ambassador? You are reading This Week @UN, highlighting the most important news on the world body. The information is drawn from the UN…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Governance, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Clair MacDougall
- • November 19, 2020
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Monique Yéli Kam’s war room is not a typical campaign headquarters for a national presidential candidate. A dusty white marquis stands next to stacked blue chairs fanning out to a balcony that leads to a…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Women
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