International Justice
- Arthur Bassas
- • October 3, 2023
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Although people across the world maintain faith in democracy, “that faith is running on fumes” for younger generations, a new survey found, published by the Open Society Foundations, which focuses on justice, human rights and democratic governance. Launched in September, …
- Categories: Governance, Human Rights, International Justice, Poverty
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- Anastasiia Carrier and Dawn Clancy
- • September 23, 2023
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Russia Blames the West, an ‘Empire of Lies,’ for All Global Ills —Â Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used his speech on Saturday, toward the end of the United Nations General Assembly’s annual debate, to recite many of the Kremlin’s …
- Categories: General Assembly, International Justice, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Clair MacDougall
- • August 21, 2023
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MONROVIA, Liberia — Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee stood behind a wooden podium in a cramped conference room and recounted her narrow escape from one of the worst massacres in Liberia’s civil war, a devastating conflict that ended 20 years …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, International Justice
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 26, 2023
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This week, the UN boss told the world’s richest countries, meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, that the Security Council and the Bretton Woods financial system both need reforming. Were they listening? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues …
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- Dawn Clancy
- • May 23, 2023
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TALLINN, Estonia –– Efforts to create a special tribunal to try Russian leaders for the crime of aggression in Ukraine is exposing a deepening divide between the Group of 7 countries and their European allies over how to hold …
- Categories: General Assembly, ICC, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 5, 2023
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This week, for World Press Freedom Day, the UN spotlighted the growing dangers — including murder — journalists face worldwide. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 28, 2023
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This week, the crises around the world hit a new tipping point. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This …
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- Opinion by Ban Ki-moon
- • April 23, 2023
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A year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the search for a credible path towards peace, based on the United Nations Charter, is ever more urgent. At the same time, mounting evidence of war crimes and atrocities committed by Russian …
- Categories: General Assembly, International Justice, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 4, 2023
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- Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
- • March 30, 2023
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After a year of the Ukrainian conflict, President Vladimir Putin remains in power in Russia. This is impressive, considering his multiple setbacks on the battlefield, over 200,000 casualties among Russian troops, hefty sanctions on his country’s economy, his nation’s exclusion …
- Categories: International Justice, OPINIONS, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 24, 2023
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This week, we report on Russia getting its first hint that it might someday be held accountable for its territorial assault on Ukraine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is …
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- Dawn Clancy
- • March 21, 2023
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LONDON — In seeking justice and accountability for alleged war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, Karim Khan, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, urged United Nations member states to stay focused on “the suffering of humanity” and to …
- Categories: Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • March 20, 2023
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The International Criminal Court has just issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, for the alleged crime of unlawfully deporting and transferring Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of the country to …
- Categories: Human Rights, ICC, International Justice
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- Dawn Clancy
- • January 18, 2023
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Hans Corell knows how to establish war crime tribunals. The Swede is a former top legal expert for the United Nations who served under Secretaries-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan and, on behalf of the institution, was instrumental in setting …
- Categories: General Assembly, ICC, International Justice, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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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 …