Middle East
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 25, 2022
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This week, we focus on climate commitments made at the just-concluded COP27 as well as the UN Environment Program honoring activists. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from …
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- Kourosh Ziabari
- • November 22, 2022
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Leaders of major democracies are intensifying their denunciations of the Iranian government for its continued brutal crackdown on the protests in the country, which are moving into their third month as Iran has issued four death sentences so far linked …
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly, Human Rights, Middle East, Security Council
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- Kourosh Ziabari
- • November 9, 2022
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Iran’s new ambassador to the United Nations stunned journalists recently when he read a contentious statement to them in response to an informal Security Council meeting on the current protests in Iran. The envoy delivered his remarks to reporters …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • July 1, 2022
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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. The …
- Categories: Africa, Libya, Middle East, Migration, Refugees, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 3, 2022
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The last time the United Arab Emirates was elected to the Security Council, in 1986, the country was only 15 years old, and Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, the current UAE ambassador to the United Nations, was just 7. Since then she …
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 12, 2021
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PassBlue probes the global body granting licenses to mine the deep seas; UN staff detained in Ethiopia; global famine rises. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 15, 2021
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The Taliban break promises to women in Afghanistan; Mali moving toward combatant reintegration; the Kafkaesque legal work representing Gitmo detainees. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Security Council, This Week @UN, UN Diplomats, UN Special Envoys, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 7, 2021
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This year’s United Nations General Assembly could make or break the future of in-person meetings at the gathering in New York City. After a year of carefully negotiating, adapting and crafting health guidelines, UNGA organizers are hoping to avoid a …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Latin America, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 2, 2021
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The presidency of the Security Council is always a high time for a country’s diplomacy, but for India right now, it’s more than that. In August, the country is going to try to show the world why it deserves a …
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • June 3, 2021
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Almost a year ago, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization released a statement characterizing as “abhorrent” a video in which a man and a woman appeared to be having sex in the back seat of a four-wheel drive vehicle with …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Laila Lutf Al-Thawr
- • June 1, 2021
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CAIRO — “They dug a hole in the ground, threw us in and shot at us randomly. I only survived because a body laid on top of me. Al Qaeda has my friends — please help me save them.” With …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 27, 2021
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Maj. Gen. Kristin Lund of Norway double-billed her government and the United Nations for moving expenses, according to a new report from The Norwegian Business Daily (Dagens Naeringsliv/DN). Lund was the first woman force commander for the UN, holding the …
- Categories: Middle East, Security Council, UN Careers
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 23, 2021
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The Joe Biden climate-fest; rape as a weapon of war in Tigray; Burma slides further downhill. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and …
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- Dali ten Hove
- • April 21, 2021
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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 home-grown …
- Categories: Libya, Middle East
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- Opinion by Mouna Ghanem
- • March 8, 2021
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COPENHAGEN — In her book, “The Second Sex,” Simone de Beauvoir argued that one is not born but rather becomes a woman. De Beauvoir emphasized that destiny is not a cosmic force but a human choice, a result of circumstances …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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