Human Rights
- Opinion by Taina Bien-Aimé
- • March 13, 2024
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The United Nations working group on discrimination against women and girls published a paper last year that not only fails to address the widespread human rights violations caused by prostitution and pornography, but also advocates for policies that will endanger …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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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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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • March 7, 2024
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts that he single-handedly blocked a Palestinian State from becoming a reality even though it is recognized by more than 130 countries and enjoys the status of an Observer State in the United Nations. In his 16 years …
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- Dawn Clancy
- • March 6, 2024
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The United Nations said it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israeli women were subjected to sexual violence, including rape, gang rape and “sexualized torture,” across “several locations” on Oct. 7 during the attack by Hamas in southern Israel. The …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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- Opinion by Maithili Pai and Francisco Pérez
- • March 5, 2024
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The committee is notorious for lengthy delays in granting approvals, and several UN member states on the committee have been accused of silencing NGOs they disagree with. That includes groups that might be critical of a country’s records on human …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Fawzia Koofi
- • February 12, 2024
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The United Nations-led meeting in Doha with the Taliban next week offers another opportunity for Afghanistan and all opposing sides in the country to come together to end the war. Any achievement, however, depends on whether all factions, including women …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Alex Baluku
- • January 15, 2024
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BUGHENDERA, Uganda — In this East African country, many young women’s dreams of earning a university degree and pursuing a career are being shattered because they can’t access the contraceptives they need to avoid getting pregnant before they are ready …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Women
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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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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • December 19, 2023
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In the Taliban’s Afghanistan, it’s not uncommon for three women to share a hospital bed. Nor is it rare for premature babies to share incubators. This occurs in the most developed city, the capital of Kabul, and all over the …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Security Council, Women
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- Arthur Bassas
- • December 15, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN: The endless hell in Gaza; the first woman specialist on torture; UN gossip; Ukraine seeks friends in the Mideast and Africa. Plus: Mali, Myanmar, Guyana/Venezuela and the word “genocide.” Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Please let us know …
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- Clair MacDougall
- • December 12, 2023
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- Joe Penney
- • November 26, 2023
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YEREVAN, Armenia — Since Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan came to office in 2018 on the heels of a democratic revolution in which he played a central role, his administration has faced numerous security and political crises. The protracted conflict …
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security, Refugees, Security Council
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- Opinion by Anne Marie Goetz
- • November 25, 2023
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A new independent analysis of how the United Nations should deal with the wide-ranging challenges plaguing Afghanistan is likely to be debated privately in the Security Council on Nov. 28. Although the Taliban are unequivocal in their contempt for human …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Damilola Banjo
- • November 16, 2023
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After 40 days of war in Gaza, the United Nations Security Council finally passed a binding resolution calling for immediate humanitarian pauses and corridors to enable essential help to reach civilians, especially children, in the besieged Palestinian enclave. But some …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • November 10, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming from the organization while promoting our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. Thirty-three days into the Israel-Hamas war, 11,078 deaths have been …
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