Human Rights
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 15, 2022
This week, we focus on the rising number of armed children in conflicts in Africa’s Sahel region and how fake news, misinformation and disinformation are hurting peacekeeping worldwide. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues…
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 14, 2022
Amid mounting reports of Ukrainian children being forcibly deported to Russia during Moscow’s brutal war against the country and its culture, savvy Ukrainian technocrats are launching a tool to fight back in cyberspace. An interactive public website will soon…
- Categories: Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Peace and Security
- Kelechukwu Ogu
- • July 11, 2022
LAGOS, Nigeria — Mauot Louis and his family ran out of their home in Sudan one day in the early 1990s, leaving their puppy behind. They were forced out by Nuer fighters, rebels from the second-largest ethnic group in…
- Categories: Disabilities, Human Rights
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 27, 2022
Britain’s new five-year asylum partnership arrangement with Rwanda is showing the rest of Europe how countries can possibly lock refugees out of their borders. And Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, is worried about this precedent….
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees
- Asila Wardak
- • June 13, 2022
Over the last 20 years, the United States and other global powers pumped money and military aid into Afghanistan, only to see it disappear when militarism proved untenable and ineffective. Now, as Afghanistan endures a state of emergency, those…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 2, 2022
The lack of accountability on a range of human-rights abuses and atrocities committed by countries and others across the world will be highlighted during Albania’s first open debate as rotating president of the United Nations Security Council this month….
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 27, 2022
This week, UN peacekeepers are commemorated, an ex-UN staff member is convicted for assault and lying to the FBI and the war in Ukraine enters its third month. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights, Journalists, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 13, 2022
This week, we focus on how the UN is further rallying support to combat the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the widespread condemnation against the killing of Al Jazeera’s reporter in Palestine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing…
- Anastasiia Carrier
- • May 9, 2022
The presence of the Russian state-linked Wagner Group mercenaries in the diamond-rich Central African Republic has been bloody. Now it seems that Russia has used its power in the United Nations Security Council to protect its exploits and geostrategic…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Security Council
- Emma Beilouny
- • April 25, 2022
The Washington-based Feminist UN Campaign has been grading the performance of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres since 2017. And he’s not exactly excelling. The group’s 2021 report card gave him a big B-. In 2020, he at least earned…
- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, SDGs, Secretary-General
- Catherine Morrison
- • April 21, 2022
Two months since Russia’s current invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country has recorded at least 2,224 civilian deaths and 2,897 injuries, as of April 19. The numbers, however, are likely to be…
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security
- Damilola Banjo
- • April 8, 2022
This week, we see how all the crises around the world have huge consequences on civilians, but we are also reminded of the resilient power of people who choose peace after a long, brutal war. You are reading This…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Michelle Langrand and Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 7, 2022
United Nations members voted on Thursday to strip Russia from its seat at the Human Rights Council, over alleged civilian killings in the region around Kyiv, Ukraine. The proposal, presented at a General Assembly emergency special session in New…
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security
- Damian Lilly
- • March 17, 2022
In 2019, the independent inquiry into the United Nations’ response to the Rohingya crisis, which drove 750,000 refugees from Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh in 2017, found “systemic and structural failures.” UN Secretary-General António Guterres accepted all the findings…
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar, WORLDVIEWS
- Sarah Copland
- • March 14, 2022
The flying glass was the first thing I saw when the Port of Beirut exploded on Aug. 4, 2020. I was thrown to the ground, and my body, heavily pregnant, was riddled with shards from our shattered window. A…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
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