Humanitarian Aid
- Arthur Bassas
- • March 15, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Japan outs the Security Council; UN experts’ “false promises” on prostitution; UNRWA funding. Plus: Haiti; Sudan; Yemen; Mediterranean shipwreck. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our top story this week: UN Rights Experts …
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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • March 14, 2024
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After weeks of deepening financial straits amid the deadly humanitarian conditions prevailing in Gaza, the tide may be turning positively for the United Nations Relief and Works agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). Yet numerous countries that suspended their aid nearly …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 11, 2024
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One of Japan’s foreign policy pillars is to secure world peace and stability, but with wars and diverse conflicts raging in almost all regions of the globe, Japan, known for its decades of pacifism since World War II, said the …
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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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- Arthur Bassas
- • March 1, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Pact for the Future; dropping two vetoes; the pied piper of small states; Sigrid Kaag and Gaza. Plus: ‘Flour massacre’; France; Congo. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our top story of …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, This Week @UN
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- Jessica Le Masurier and Fatma Khaled
- • March 1, 2024
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At dawn on Thursday morning in Gaza City, photographer Mohammed Hajjar got word that trucks carrying food had finally made it into the capital of the besieged Palestinian enclave. At 4 A.M., he went with his brother to the neighboring …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Security Council
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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 28, 2024
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Sigrid Kaag, a Dutch diplomat and former politician appointed in December by the United Nations as senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza, has been meeting leaders since she began her job in January. She has gone to various points …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • February 23, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Savoring the UN Charter; aid cuts harm women; prosecuting Putin. Plus: Russia-Ukraine war; US veto; Gaza; South Sudan; Houthis Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn Our top story this week: Aid Cuts Are …
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- Opinion by Marissa Conway
- • February 19, 2024
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Britain has cut its international aid several times since 2020 and, by the government’s own admission, the well-being of women around the world has been substantially impacted. The 2021 cut to UNFPA, the UN Population Fund, is a prime example. If …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Humanitarian Aid, OPINIONS
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- Arthur Bassas
- • February 16, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @ UN: UN-Afghan talks; Gaza aid runs low; Rafah on edge. Plus: Wild animals; Lebanon; Venezuela; Navalny. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. We dare you to try our new quiz, on the …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 13, 2024
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The leader of the United Nations’ primary relief agency in Gaza says that its humanitarian aid operations will face serious shortfalls by mid-March if the 17 countries that paused funding do not reverse course in the coming weeks. In an …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • February 9, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Unrwa allegations; the new Pact for the Future. Plus: Senegal; Haiti; Gaza; FGM. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our thanks to everyone who has donated to PassBlue, a nonprofit media site, …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 31, 2024
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The United Nations Security Council’s continuing failure to agree on a ceasefire in Gaza is troubling many members, including Guyana, which assumes the rotating presidency of the Council on Feb. 1. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s permanent representative to the UN, told …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 26, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Azerbaijan to lead COP29; Gaza’s garbage pileup; US envoy loves Liberia. Plus: UN Security Council meeting on ICJ ruling; Yemen, Haiti, Gaza. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our most-read story of …
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