Middle East
- Allison Lecce
- • July 15, 2020
For the ninth year in a row, 90 percent of people killed by explosive weapons in urban areas were civilians. The use of these devices is proliferating in conflicts because they are becoming easier to come by — sometimes…
- Categories: Disarmament, Middle East, Security Council
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • February 11, 2020
A few days after Jared Kushner, President Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, met with United Nations Security Council members offsite in New York to sell the United States’ Mideast deal for peace, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came to the Council…
- Michelle Nicholasen
- • January 11, 2020
Hicham Alaoui was a young prince — only seven years old — in 1971, when he witnessed a devastating military coup unfold against his family inside the Moroccan royal palace. The assailants did not succeed in overturning the 350-year-old…
- Categories: Middle East, US Foreign Relations
- 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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 20, 2019
In the middle of a muggy August afternoon in New York, the United Nations Security Council gathered once more to figure out how to “maintain peace and security” in the Middle East. But the recurring topic always leaves conversations…
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 6, 2019
Even though many people think of August as vacation time, Joanna Wronecka, Poland’s ambassador to the United Nations, is not taking off anytime soon, as she is presiding over the Security Council for the month. As the Security Council…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Middle East, Security Council Presidency
- Thalif Deen
- • August 5, 2019
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which has been undermined by a sharp cut in United States contributions, has been embroiled in a scandal that threatens to jeopardize its very future. A report from the agency’s Ethics Office…
- Categories: Middle East, Secretary-General, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
- Evelyn Leopold
- • June 30, 2019
The United Nations refugee agency for Palestinians is vastly short of funds for 5.4 million people, while the Trump administration is doing its best to shut down the program and initiate new, albeit controversial financing. At issue was a…
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 3, 2019
Still, this small oil-rich Arab country has an agenda of its own that it wants to fulfill as it ends its last presidency on the Council — in probably decades — on a strong note. For June, Kuwait plans to…
- Suraj Girijashanker
- • May 27, 2019
Progress in recognizing the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people at the United Nations in New York and in Geneva may seem detached from the realities faced by LGBTQ people in the Middle East and…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Middle East, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 12, 2019
Just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt met with President Trump in the White House, receiving an effusive reception, Trump nominated Jonathan R. Cohen, the acting permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations, as…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 8, 2019
New projections from a leading American research group suggest that the number of Christians in various denominations and sects is steadily rising in Africa and could dominate the faith numerically worldwide for decades to come. In 2015, according to…
- Categories: Africa, Health and Population, Latin America, Middle East
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 7, 2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio — In this city of immigrants, as one Moroccan-American called his hometown, the Muslim community keeps a low profile amid the Islamophobia that has reared its head in the United States in recent times. As one of…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2018
CLEVELAND, Ohio — On the main drag of Euclid Avenue in this Midwestern city sprawls the main campus of the Cleveland Clinic, the renowned hospital that attracts an estimated 2.5 million patients nationwide and abroad, including from the Middle…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, US Foreign Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 28, 2018
TEL AVIV — Every day in some provinces of Vietnam, the simple act of walking can be deadly, as people risk stepping on unexploded ordnances, remnants from America’s war there that ended more than 40 years ago. The United…
- Categories: Disarmament, Geopolitics, Middle East, US Foreign Relations
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