Journalists
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 30, 2022
Kathy Gannon never wanted to be a journalist. That changed when she was urged by a journalist brother to give the profession a try. She became a successful reporter and editor of local newspapers in Ontario and British Columbia….
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Journalists, Women as Changemakers
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 27, 2022
This week, UN peacekeepers are commemorated, an ex-UN staff member is convicted for assault and lying to the FBI and the war in Ukraine enters its third month. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights, Journalists, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 14, 2021
As the final round of the Generation Equality Forum was about to open in Paris in late June, some reporters, including from PassBlue, were directed by a few United Nations agencies most involved in the event, to ask their…
- Categories: Journalists, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Careers
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 2, 2019
Exactly a year after Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi-born, American-based journalist, was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnès Callamard, remains categorical: UN Secretary-General António Guterres can and…
- Categories: Human Rights, Journalists, Middle East, Security Council
- Kacie Candela
- • February 25, 2019
The scarcity of female experts that journalists can readily rely on for objective, accurate information for reporting on an international news story couldn’t be clearer: 81 percent of experts interviewed for global news stories were men, according to a…
- Categories: Journalists, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 23, 2018
After the savage murder of Jamal Khashoggi, major organizations monitoring the freedom and safety of journalists worldwide are reporting, albeit coincidentally, that 2018 has been an exceptionally dangerous year everywhere. The deaths of journalists have risen sharply, to 53…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Journalists
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • April 30, 2018
In the world of fake news, the United Nations has been a prime target since it opened its doors in 1945. These days, spending just a few minutes on Facebook and Twitter, two sites located at the epicenter of…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Journalists
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 6, 2018
In the dark shadows of rising populism and hypernationalistic leaders, attempts to intimidate reporters and curb the exchange of information are taking on less visibly crude but still dangerous forms. The menace, highlighted in the United States by Donald…
- Categories: Governance, Journalists, Peace and Security, Take a Look
- Elizabeth Walsh
- • October 24, 2017
Throughout the world, Afghan women are often portrayed as victims by the media and other institutions, needing foreign rescue or summoning deep pity for their oppression. Women’s literacy rate is less than half that of men’s in the country,…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Journalists, Women
- Kacie Candela
- • August 25, 2017
Nikki Haley has been appearing on American TV news programs an awful lot lately, so what gives? Some observers point to Haley as a refreshing and stable face amid an unpredictable White House and uncannily quiet secretary of state,…
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • February 9, 2017
A recent email sent out by a member of the United States Mission to the United Nations, then tweeted and possibly subtweeted, contained the following statement: This is to let you know that Ambassador Haley will be spending her…
- Categories: Journalists, Nikki Haley Watch, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 2, 2016
Somalia, Iraq and Syria lead the world in the killing of journalists by Islamic extremists who get away with their crimes, but militants also continue to target the media with impunity in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan, according to…
- Categories: Journalists
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