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- Damilola Banjo
- • October 14, 2022
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This week, we celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child amid various restrictions on and violations of girls’ rights globally. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from …
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- Emma Beilouny
- • April 25, 2022
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- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 25, 2021
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Rafael Grossi of the IAEA on Iran, gender bias and diplomacy; nuke-weapons countries just keep spending billions; European peacekeepers attacked in Gao, Mali. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is …
- Categories: Africa, LGBT, Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 23, 2020
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A “permanent” cease-fire is reached in Libya; Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City declines to meet with the president of the UN General Assembly; and what’s going on behind closed-door meetings at the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty …
- Categories: Africa, Disarmament, General Assembly, LGBT, Libya, This Week @UN
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 20, 2019
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In this season of giving, the United States delegation offered free bourbon from Kentucky to the media and is splurging on a holiday party paid for by Kelly Knight Craft, the US ambassador, while in more serious business at the …
- Categories: LGBT, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 22, 2019
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Is President Trump’s nominee to represent the United States at the United Nations in Geneva in last-minute trouble? A long, detailed letter, sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by prominent global human-rights groups and those concentrating on women’s health, …
- Categories: Gender Violence, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Sahar Moazami
- • July 21, 2019
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I woke to a flurry of messages from LGBTIQ activists across the world, coordinating activities. It was July 12 and the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva was about to vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert …
- Categories: Gender Violence, LGBT, OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 14, 2019
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When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo convenes the second of his ministerial-level, multifaith conferences on religious freedom around the world on July 16 to 18, global threats to Christianity are likely to figure prominently, if recent comments by American officials …
- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach and Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • December 12, 2018
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The nomination of Heather Nauert to succeed Nikki Haley as United States ambassador to the United Nations has quickly enraged some international women’s rights groups and a major Islamic advocacy organization based in the United States, portending a tense confirmation …
- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 25, 2018
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In a rare act of legislative sabotage, the Trump administration’s plan to starve international family planning of funds has been killed for now as committees in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate slipped hundreds of millions …
- Categories: Gender Violence, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein
- • December 12, 2017
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STONE TOWN, Tanzania — When a story circulated in August 2017 of male lions attempting to copulate with each other in Kenya’s Masai Mara national park, headlines and Twitter feeds went wild with speculation, ridicule and accusation. Despite Kenya being one …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, LGBT
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- Opinion by Ryan Kaminski and Ted Piccone
- • April 17, 2017
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WASHINGTON, D. C. — Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has articulated an ambitious blueprint for the American presidency of the UN Security Council this month. One pillar of the US approach will be what she …
- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Boris Dittrich and Faisel Tjon-A-Loi
- • December 13, 2016
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Suriname’s government is on the right track at home when it comes to protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people against discrimination and violence. In 2015, the government introduced antidiscrimination legislation, including sexual orientation on grounds for nondiscrimination complaints. The …
- Categories: Human Rights, Latin America, LGBT, OPINIONS
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • November 22, 2016
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Hate crimes have risen dramatically in the United States since the election of Donald Trump as president on Nov. 8. The United Nations has quickly taken note, criticizing its strongest financial and moral supporter, America. “Recent reports of hate crimes …
- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, US-UN Relations
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- Isabella Flisi
- • October 30, 2016
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BOGOTÁ — By a thin margin, Colombian voters said no in early October to a peace agreement to end the decades-long war in the country between the guerillas, FARC-EP, and the government. The painstakingly written peace pact was developed with …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, LGBT, Peace and Security, Women
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