Health and Population
- Opinion by Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
- • March 15, 2023
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For decades the United States, the primary architect of international drug control policy, led the global fight against illicit drugs, exercising its influence through the Vienna-based Commission on Narcotic Drugs, a governing body that provides guidance to the United…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, OPINIONS, UN Agencies
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- Opinion by Angela Kane  and Jaime Yassif
- • July 26, 2022
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The war in Ukraine has caused severe disruptions to regional and global security, including raising concerns about the potential use of unconventional weapons. Not least of these concerns is the dangerous Russian disinformation campaign alleging biological weapons development in Ukraine,…
- Categories: Disarmament, Health and Population, OPINIONS
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- Fiona Harvey
- • June 28, 2022
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Food, fossil fuel and pharmaceutical companies that have enjoyed bumper profits in the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath should be hit with a swingeing windfall tax on their excess income, the global head of Oxfam has said. A windfall…
- Categories: Climate Change, Health and Population, Poverty
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- Ellen Marshall  and David Harwood
- • June 5, 2022
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Adrienne Germain, who helped shape international development and women’s rights for more than four decades, died on May 19, 2022, at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 75 years old. Her passionate advocacy on behalf of the sexual…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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- Dr. Catherine Mullaly
- • March 1, 2022
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Ukraine’s population data are rapidly changing as the war rages in its country since Russia began its aerial, ground and sea assaults late last week. Within 24 hours of issuing its first report, the UN Refugee Agency documented that…
- Categories: Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 8, 2021
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A new vaccine for malaria; the Security Council goes to the Sahel; the Human Rights Council’s actions, criticized and praised. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Health and Population, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 24, 2021
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The fourth day of the United Nations General Assembly debate soldiered on, with pointed speeches by, among others, the Caribbean island nation of Barbados, whose prime minister, Mia Amor Mottley, asked the General Assembly Hall, “How many crises and…
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, Health and Population, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 23, 2021
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If you have understandably faded from the UNGA76 gathering by now, here are highlights for Day 3 of global leaders’ speeches, held on Sept. 23. We’ve also included Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s late-night remarks on Sept. 22 in the…
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Climate Change, General Assembly, Health and Population, Terrorism, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
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- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • August 31, 2021
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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
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 24, 2021
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For Natalia Kanem, the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund since 2017, the last couple of years have been a wild ride. In 2020, women the world over were getting ready to celebrate important anniversaries: 25 years…
- Categories: Health and Population, Secretary-General, UN Agencies, Women as Changemakers
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 30, 2021
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The most important day of the widely anticipated United Nations-backed Generation Equality Forum’s second session ended Wednesday night in Paris. But before the dozens of speeches were heard, a gulf emerged among people who at heart all want to…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 7, 2021
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As the world adapted slowly to the Covid-19 pandemic, most companies around the world pivoted from in-person work to having people work from home. Many found they were putting in longer hours, a trend that could spell an increase…
- Categories: Cities, Health and Population
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 14, 2021
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Abed Al Fatah Skafi at his house in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, March 1, 2021. Skafi’s family is one of four that are being threatened with eviction in favor of Israeli settlers. Anger over Israeli treatment of Palestinians in Jerusalem have…
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- Clair MacDougall
- • May 10, 2021
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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
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 9, 2021
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The Myanmar crisis isn’t going away; global bias against older people; Vietnam leads the Security Council; Chadian peacekeepers killed and wounded in Mali. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…
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