Health and Population
- María Fernanda Espinosa and Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
- • October 24, 2020
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Since its founding 75 years ago, the United Nations has proven, with the support of its member countries and other partners, its worth in complex problem-solving. That includes preventing great-power wars, remedying humanitarian emergencies, safeguarding human rights and reducing…
- Categories: Development, Disarmament, Governance, Health and Population, Human Rights, SDGs
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • October 22, 2020
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By all accounts, 2020 has been a terrible year so far — but is it worse than 1920? In 1920, World War I, which killed 16 million people, had just ended. The two-year influenza pandemic that followed killed 50…
- Categories: General Assembly, Health and Population, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Opinion by Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss
- • October 19, 2020
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This week we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, as the Covid-19 pandemic highlights our interdependence and the need for global cooperation. Enthusiasm for it, however, is in short supply amid deteriorating Washington-Beijing relations, Brexit and rising…
- Categories: Climate Change, Covid-19, Governance, Health and Population, OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 17, 2020
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For once, two pieces of good news from the United Nations: The World Food Program receives the Nobel Peace Prize and the Security Council begins meeting physically again in its chamber. But some reality-checking: 25 years after the Beijing…
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- Opinion by Celso Amorim and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- • October 5, 2020
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The world order is no more. Since the beginning of this year, and with greater intensity since March, when the World Health Organization declared the spread of Covid-19 a pandemic, governments and civil societies have been grappling with a…
- Categories: Development, Governance, Health and Population, OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 29, 2020
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In the rubble of what’s left of American commitments to international organizations, one survivor is doing well. The United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, the perennial target of Republican politicians and presidents since the 1980s, is thriving. Arthur Erken,…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
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- Kjell Engelbrekt
- • August 28, 2020
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STOCKHOLM — For those of us who have tried to keep up with the international commentary on Sweden’s response to Covid-19 during the last months, it has been bewildering. As Sweden failed to contain the coronavirus at its borders…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population
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- Rhona Scullion
- • July 9, 2020
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WHITCHURCH, England — Britain currently has the highest death toll from Covid-19 in Europe and the third-highest death rate in the world, according to the World Health Organization statistics. The central government in London is being repeatedly criticized for…
- Categories: Covid-19, Governance, Health and Population
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • May 19, 2020
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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…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • May 18, 2020
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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….
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population
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- Sam Mattar
- • May 2, 2020
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BEIRUT — In these dire times of the Covid-19 crisis, I am quarantined at home in the hills overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean. I take comfort in the prospects of clear, clean skies, no longer tainted by the brown…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population
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- Susana Malcorra
- • April 27, 2020
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MADRID — The first two cases of Covid-19 infections here were identified on Feb. 26, 2020. That day, 23 people had become infected in Spain in less than 24 hours. Three days later, the number was 80. From then…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, SDGs
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- Noeleen Heyzer
- • April 23, 2020
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SINGAPORE — Singapore now has the highest number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia, at 11,178, as of April 23. The daily coronavirus infection rate reached a new high of 1,426 as I write. Just over a month ago, Singapore,…
- Categories: Asia, Covid-19, Health and Population
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 16, 2020
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Something is missing from the statistical charts and maps of Covid-19 in East Asia: credible data on the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea. The country, North Korea as it is commonly known, has always been a singularly secretive state…
- Categories: Asia, Covid-19, Health and Population
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 14, 2020
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Donald Trump, the president of the United States, announced from the Rose Garden of the White House on April 14 that he was withholding funding to the World Health Organization, pending a “60 to 90 day” review of its handling…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, US-UN Relations
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