Myanmar
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 17, 2023
This week, we focus on countries with enduring humanitarian disasters, plus big news from the International Criminal Court on Russia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, ICC, Myanmar, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
- Chris Gunness  and Damian Lilly
- • September 13, 2022
The United Nations General Assembly will soon make a decision that will affect the lives of 55 million people in Myanmar and could influence the fate of their nation as it stands at a crucial crossroad. This week, as…
- Categories: General Assembly, Myanmar, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Damian Lilly
- • March 17, 2022
In 2019, the independent inquiry into the United Nations’ response to the Rohingya crisis, which drove 750,000 refugees from Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh in 2017, found “systemic and structural failures.” UN Secretary-General António Guterres accepted all the findings…
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 24, 2022
A year after the Burmese military overthrew the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, horrifying statistics of death, torture, detention and disappearance of civilians continue to mount. As of Jan. 19, according to the Assistance Association for…
- Categories: Asia, Myanmar, UN Diplomats
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 12, 2021
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…
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 29, 2021
A coup in Khartoum; global carbon emissions revert to pre-Covid levels; a new UN envoy is named for Myanmar. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN…
- Categories: Africa, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 26, 2021
Noeleen Heyzer, an expert in conflict resolution, economic development and women’s rights, has been named the next United Nations special envoy for Myanmar/Burma. Heyzer, from Singapore, was the first women to head the UN Economic and Social Commission for…
- Categories: Asia, Myanmar, Secretary-General, UN Diplomats
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 8, 2021
A new vaccine for malaria; the Security Council goes to the Sahel; the Human Rights Council’s actions, criticized and praised. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Health and Population, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Rebecca Barber et al.
- • September 12, 2021
The United Nations General Assembly is due to consider an issue in the coming weeks that will profoundly affect the lives of 55 million people in Myanmar. Its Credentials Committee will debate whether to accept the credentials of the…
- Categories: Myanmar, WORLDVIEWS
- Chris Gunness
- • July 26, 2021
The battle is on to grab the Myanmar seat at the United Nations in New York City, a hugely significant prize as the junta wages a campaign for diplomatic recognition. Nonrecognition of the regime is crucial right now, because…
- Categories: Myanmar, UN Diplomats, WORLDVIEWS
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 2, 2021
Ending racism across the world; UN peacekeeping’s $6 billion annual budget O.K.’d; Norway’s diplomatic troubles; gender equality on the front burner (for now). You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, UN Peacekeeping
- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 18, 2021
The UN’s leader is sworn in for another term; Myanmar’s rapid instability; elevating the US ambassador’s profile. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue…
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 13, 2021
From small villages to city offices, an open rebellion is steadily spreading in Burma, drawing together citizens outraged by the Feb. 1 coup that overturned a national election and crushed a popular democracy. Pro-democracy advocates inside Burma and abroad…
- Categories: Myanmar, Security Council
- Damian Lilly
- • May 19, 2021
Since the military coup in Myanmar on Feb. 1, 802 civilians have been killed. The majority of the people who have been killed were peaceful protesters shot by state security forces — the very people that are meant to…
- Categories: Asia, Humanitarian Aid, Myanmar, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 7, 2021
China in the United Nations’ hot seat; Guterres’s vision for another five years; the future of global cooperation; who was Anne Dragon Nezeriotis? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…
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