Humanitarian Aid
- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 14, 2021
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Abed Al Fatah Skafi at his house in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, March 1, 2021. Skafi’s family is one of four that are being threatened with eviction in favor of Israeli settlers. Anger over Israeli treatment of Palestinians in Jerusalem have…
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 22, 2021
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The United Nations’ top agency for humanitarian aid is poised for a new boss to arrive, one who could instill a management style far removed from what some of its staffers call a “neocolonial mind-set” under the outgoing head,…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, UN Agencies
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- Opinion by Ian Martin
- • March 3, 2021
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LONDON — Should the world’s top humanitarian official be chosen through a meritocratic selection process open to candidates from any country, or should the choice be restricted to a single nationality and nomination by that government? The answer is…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, OPINIONS
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 5, 2021
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A coup staged in Myanmar; the UN’s first unofficial feminist dies; Aleksei Navalny’s sentencing. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from the UN spokesperson’s press…
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- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • October 16, 2020
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Clair MacDougall was reporting on a follow-up story for PassBlue about Lieut. Col. Carlos Moisés Guillén Alfaro, the first official United Nations peacekeeper to die of Covid-19, when on Oct. 9 she heard that the World Food Program was awarded the…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Humanitarian Aid, US-UN Relations
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- Clair MacDougall
- • October 10, 2020
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — David Beasley, the head of the World Food Program, this year’s just-announced Nobel Peace Prize winner, has warned that the number of people facing starvation could double next year, to 270 million, if the agency is…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach and Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 26, 2020
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The coronavirus officially hit the United Nations at its New York City headquarters on March 12, when the first reported case was announced by the Philippines mission to the UN that one of its diplomats had Covid-19 and was…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Humanitarian Aid, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Opinion by Sophie Huvé
- • April 11, 2019
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The United Nations Security Council just passed yet another resolution on counterterrorism, this one enunciating the steps that UN member states must take to further constrain terrorist groups’ access to financial and economic resources. Resolution 2462 follows a series…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 10, 2018
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The United States is the biggest donor to the UN Refugee Agency, and the Trump administration wants the world to know it. A new framework, or agreement, signed by the State Department and the refugee agency (UNHCR) requires it…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Humanitarian Aid, Refugees, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 21, 2018
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After a year of bombast and threats by Ambassador Nikki Haley and the ever-evolving Donald Trump administration, the tone appears to be turned down a few notches in the second year of the Trump presidency. But efforts to undermine…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 18, 2018
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There has yet to be a decision in United States Congress on what funds for global women’s health, if any, will survive in the current 2018 national budget, a decision that is nearly six months overdue. But Donald Trump…
- Categories: Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Poverty, Take a Look, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 31, 2018
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David Beasley, the executive director of the World Food Program, based in Rome, posted a prayer at the top of his Twitter page in early January, reading: “My prayer for 2018: Peace. Our path to Zero Hunger begins with…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Nikki Haley Watch, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 31, 2017
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Nearly three years ago, Megan Nobert, a humanitarian worker in South Sudan, was drugged and raped by an employee of a United Nations agency, according to her account, made public six months later. That was when Nobert decided to…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Humanitarian Aid, Take a Look
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- Opinion by Michael Curtin
- • October 23, 2017
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Oct. 24 is not just another day on the calendar. It is United Nations Day, an excellent time to take note of one of the accomplishments the world body has achieved in its 72-year history. The global institution has…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Migration, OPINIONS, Refugees
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- Opinion by Mark Shilen
- • June 27, 2017
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MOSUL, Iraq — For two weeks in early April and again in June, I was embedded in Mosul with an emergency-response division of the Iraqi army, which is fighting to retake the city from ISIS. The nonprofit organization I…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, OPINIONS, Terrorism
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