Human Rights
- Damilola Banjo
- • February 10, 2023
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This week, we focus on the sad news of the earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria, leaving approximately 22,000 people dead so far, thousands of others injured and everyone desperate for humanitarian aid. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing …
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- Joe Penney
- • February 9, 2023
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LAGOS — A little more than 11 years after a jihadist and Tuareg separatist alliance stormed northern Mali and wrested control of the main cities of Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal from the Malian state, the two sides are set to …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Kateryna Rashevska
- • December 26, 2022
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KYIV — During its eight years of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has systematically pursued a policy of eradicating Ukrainian identity among children in the occupied territories. Deportation, separation from parents, transfer to Russian families, imposition of citizenship, Russification and militarization …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Vincent Ploton
- • December 22, 2022
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As Volker Turk, the new United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is in his second month in office, it’s a good moment to take stock of his early moves. Turk’s predecessors have all upheld the dominant UN discourse on …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Dawn Clancy
- • December 20, 2022
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For months, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, alongside Christian Wenaweser, Liechtenstein’s envoy, have been leading an effort at the UN to produce a draft resolution to support the notion of establishing an international tribunal to prosecute the …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • December 16, 2022
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This week, opinion seemed divided on the decision to expel Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • December 15, 2022
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- Categories: Human Rights, Ukraine-Russia War
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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 as …
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Kourosh Ziabari
- • December 1, 2022
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- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Damilola Banjo
- • November 29, 2022
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Guy Ryder, 66, immediate past director-general of the International Labor Organization for 10 years, begins his new role in New York City as the UN under secretary-general for policy, about 10 days into a World Cup rocked by accusations of …
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, Migration, Secretary-General
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 23, 2022
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- Kourosh Ziabari
- • November 22, 2022
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Leaders of major democracies are intensifying their denunciations of the Iranian government for its continued brutal crackdown on the protests in the country, which are moving into their third month as Iran has issued four death sentences so far linked …
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly, Human Rights, Middle East, Security Council
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- Damilola Banjo
- • November 16, 2022
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LAGOS — The United Nations is ignoring repeated calls for help in resolving a resource war between largely Christian farmers and mainly Muslim herders in Kaduna, a state in northwest Nigeria. The conflict has been smoldering since 2011 and now, …
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Human Rights
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- Dawn Clancy
- • October 18, 2022
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- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War, Women as Changemakers
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 2, 2022
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It was billed as a grand ceremony staged by the United Nations Association of Germany to award its biennial Otto Hahn Peace Medal to Navi Pillay, marking her decades of groundbreaking work in human rights and international criminal law, including …
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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