Libya
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 20, 2023
This week, we focus on the crises in Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the United Nations intensifies peacekeeping and humanitarian remediation in the first weeks of 2023. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the…
- Anastasiia Carrier
- • October 10, 2022
Marat Gabidullin is throwing open the door on the notorious Wagner Group, the Russian quasi-private army that operates in the shadows and doesn’t exist on paper. When he released his memoir in April in French, describing his time as…
- Categories: Africa, Libya, Peace and Security, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 1, 2022
This week, we focus on the progress in discussions about elections in Libya and the drastic call for help in Afghanistan after the recent earthquake. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization….
- Categories: Africa, Libya, Middle East, Migration, Refugees, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 26, 2021
UN envoy for Libya resigns; older women’s rights forgotten by the General Assembly; UN staff’s dependents to leave Ethiopia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Libya, This Week @UN, UN Special Envoys
- Dali ten Hove
- • April 21, 2021
A high-powered cast of former senior United Nations mediators from the Middle East and North Africa have founded a conflict-resolution organization, the International Center for Dialogue Initiatives, or ICDI, to mitigate the failures of foreign peace brokers and enable…
- Categories: Libya, Middle East
- Ivana Ramirez
- • January 8, 2021
The United States Capitol stormed by pro-Trump rioters; a legendary UN diplomat dies at 101; Islamist jihadists blamed for fatal assault in Niger. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization….
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Libya, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, UN Diplomats, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 6, 2021
It’s become the origin story of Tunisia’s revolution and the broader Arab Spring: In December 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire after years of being harassed by police officers and experiencing a series of…
- Categories: Africa, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Libya, Security Council Presidency
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • November 16, 2020
Ignoring two proposals from Africa to fill the United Nations special envoy post for Libya, the United States demanded that the secretary-general, António Guterres, accept its own choice, several diplomats have told PassBlue. The maneuver could leave Africa with…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Libya, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Special Envoys
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 23, 2020
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…
- Categories: Africa, Disarmament, General Assembly, LGBT, Libya, This Week @UN
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 11, 2018
A decision by the United Nations Security Council to add sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence should have gone smoothly. The proposal, led by the Netherlands and Sweden, was meant to deter such violence in conflict zones and other…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Libya, Security Council
- Enrico Carisch and Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • December 1, 2017
With only few of the current United Nations sanctions cases accomplishing their political objectives, it is not unreasonable to wonder why the system seems broken. As the 50th anniversary of the first use of this important political tool is duly…
- Categories: Libya, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 17, 2017
BELPASSO, Italy — The Oasi di Francesca farm-stay hotel is situated in an unlikely spot here in Sicily, about a kilometer from an Italian naval air base and a half hour to the large port city of Catania in…
- Categories: Climate Change, Development, Libya, Migration, Refugees
- Irwin Arieff
- • October 7, 2017
Will it never end? When will time run out on the array of shape-shifting militant Islamist movements intent on moving into shaky trouble spots around the world to impose their extreme ideology, harness the population and hijack the local…
- Categories: BOOKS, Libya, Middle East, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 9, 2017
The United Nations has formalized its relationship with the Community of Sant’Egidio, the highly regarded Catholic membership organization based in Rome that has been focusing on conflict prevention and resolution, primarily in Africa, for 30 years. A community of…
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Human Trafficking, International Justice, Libya, Migration, Peace and Security
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 2, 2017
Moving away from strictly categorizing rape and other sexual abuse against women as a weapon of war, a new report from the United Nations addresses the increasing use of rape as a weapon of terrorism. The report also documents…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Libya, Middle East, Peace and Security, Women
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