Human Rights
- Emma Beilouny
- • April 25, 2022
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- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Catherine Morrison
- • April 21, 2022
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- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security
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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 8, 2022
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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 Week …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Michelle Langrand and Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 7, 2022
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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 York …
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security
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- Opinion by Damian Lilly
- • March 17, 2022
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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 of …
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Sarah Copland
- • March 14, 2022
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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 sonic …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Clair MacDougall
- • March 10, 2022
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Two-thousand civilian deaths. Countless “forced disappearances.” More than 1.7 million people displaced. The citizens of Burkina Faso have paid a price for the violent jihadist campaign leading up to Jan. 23, when the military seized power, …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 3, 2022
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The last time the United Arab Emirates was elected to the Security Council, in 1986, the country was only 15 years old, and Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, the current UAE ambassador to the United Nations, was just 7. Since then she …
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • February 18, 2022
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Artillery shelling blasts eastern Ukraine; what’s the Collective Security Treaty Organization?; the UN boss jets to Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from …
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Yujie Zhou
- • December 9, 2021
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The Central African Republic has long suffered from internal strife and human-rights abuses, but the situation now is perhaps the worst it has ever been and could grow more dire. The central government controls only a small portion of this …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, US Foreign Relations
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 12, 2021
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PassBlue probes the global body granting licenses to mine the deep seas; UN staff detained in Ethiopia; global famine rises. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
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- Opinion by Margot Wallström and Susana Malcorra
- • November 4, 2021
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- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS, Terrorism
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- Clair MacDougall
- • October 25, 2021
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- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Women
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 22, 2021
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The UN boss points to rising global military spending as a source of gendered violence; the UN’s tech envoy, mired in controversy, may be exiting; the Human Rights Council rolls out a multimillion-dollar project with the Philippines. You are reading …
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • October 21, 2021
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As abuses against Sahrawi activists and journalists mount in Western Sahara, 10 United States Republican and Democratic senators are urging the Biden administration to include a human-rights element in the work of the United Nations referendum mission in the disputed …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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