Middle East
- Opinion by Suraj Girijashanker
- • May 27, 2019
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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 North …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Middle East, OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 12, 2019
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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 ambassador …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 8, 2019
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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 the …
- Categories: Africa, Health and Population, Latin America, Middle East
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 7, 2019
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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 the …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2018
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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 East. …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, US Foreign Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 28, 2018
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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 States …
- Categories: Disarmament, Geopolitics, Middle East, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Kristine Beckerle
- • November 7, 2018
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BEIRUT — A Yemeni father’s voice, proudly telling us about his son, was nevertheless infused with sorrow: Ahmed was about 12 and smart. He lived with his father, his mother and his eight siblings until “the war came.” The Saudi-led …
- Categories: Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 27, 2018
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The European Union, Germany, Norway, Ireland and Kuwait stepped in this week to donate a total of $118 million in financing to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa), after the United …
- Categories: Climate Change, Geopolitics, Middle East, Refugees, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Karim Makdisi
- • September 11, 2018
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BEIRUT — In late August, the United Nations Security Council unanimously renewed its peacekeeping operation in southern Lebanon, called Unifil. The less confrontational tone around the negotiation of Resolution 2433, contrasting with the heated debate on the renewal a year …
- Categories: Middle East, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • September 6, 2018
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It is entirely the United States’ prerogative to cut off its voluntary contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or Unrwa. In her statements about why the Trump administration has decided to …
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 20, 2018
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As the attack on Hodeidah, a major port in western Yemen on the Red Sea, moves into its second week, led by the coalition of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the rest of the world seems to be …
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- Kacie Candela
- • May 28, 2018
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From the start, it was a closely watched contest pitting Germany, Belgium and Israel against one another for their regional bloc’s two seats in the next term on the United Nations Security Council. Israel has never held a seat on the …
- Categories: General Assembly, Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council
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- Enrico Carisch
- • May 22, 2018
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Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as Donald Trump’s new secretary of state, threatened United States’ allies: “You should know that we will hold those doing prohibited business in Iran to account.” Pompeo, speaking at the conservative Heritage Foundation in …
- Categories: Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, P5 Monitor, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 21, 2018
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After a year of bombast and threats by Ambassador Nikki Haley and the ever-evolving Donald Trump administration, the tone appears to be turned down a few notches in the second year of the Trump presidency. But efforts to undermine the …
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 15, 2018
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The message was blunt and judgmental as the United States delivered its ultimatum on the future of the United Nations mission in Western Sahara: “MINURSO is a peacekeeping mission that should have finished its job a long time ago. This …
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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