Myanmar
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • May 5, 2021
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When China last took the reins of the Security Council, in March 2020, the country was just starting to control the pandemic at home, while the virus was spreading rapidly abroad, all the way to United Nations headquarters in…
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar, Security Council Presidency
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- Opinion by Ian Martin  and Charles Petrie
- • April 24, 2021
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This weekend, Asean will be deliberating on possible courses of action regarding Myanmar. Across the country, brave people, many of them children, are being murdered daily; health services are ceasing to function in the middle of a pandemic; the…
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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…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 19, 2021
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For more than a decade, from 2004 to 2017, Vijay Nambiar was a special adviser to United Nations secretaries-general Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, charged with following events in Burma, which the military generals renamed Myanmar in 1989. A…
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 9, 2021
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The Myanmar crisis isn’t going away; global bias against older people; Vietnam leads the Security Council; Chadian peacekeepers killed and wounded in Mali. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • April 5, 2021
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When Vietnam started its term as an elected member of the United Nations Security Council in January 2020, it also had to take on the role of the monthly rotating president. Back then, it sold itself as a bridge…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Myanmar, Security Council Presidency
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 2, 2021
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United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken dials the UN; Mexico’s dual-personality approach to women’s rights; a deadly French airstrike on a wedding in Mali; two new applicants for secretary-general. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most…
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 13, 2021
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The Covid-19 pandemic anniversary; digitally recruiting women to run for the United Nations’ top job; International Women’s Day, a bit of a downer. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Migration, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Noeleen Heyzer
- • March 9, 2021
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SINGAPORE — The situation in Myanmar is growing more violent and polarized. If the situation continues without urgent intervention, the safety and security of civilians will deteriorate rapidly and a window for dialogue between the military and Daw Aung…
- Categories: Myanmar, OPINIONS, Responsibility to Protect, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • February 9, 2021
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GENEVA — In May 2016, Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general, received an unexpected request from a fellow Nobel peace laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader and state counselor. She asked him to lead a…
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 5, 2021
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A coup staged in Myanmar; the UN’s first unofficial feminist dies; Aleksei Navalny’s sentencing. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from the UN spokesperson’s press…
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- Opinion by Akila Radhakrishnan
- • January 21, 2020
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Last month, the world was struck by an unusual image — that of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi — standing in court to defend and deny genocide. What was striking was not only what she…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Susan Hutchinson
- • November 25, 2019
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The recent case lodged by The Gambia with the International Court of Justice against Myanmar’s persecution of the Rohingya is the first time that rape will be prosecuted as genocide at the court, which is based in The Hague….
- Categories: International Justice, Myanmar, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 16, 2018
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In a year in which swaths of territory were liberated in Iraq and Syria from the grip of ISIS, enabling the release of women and girls and others from the extremists, the United Nations’ annual report on conflict-related sexual…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, Peace and Security, Refugees
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 11, 2017
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In mid-2016, the United Nations refugee agency and Ugandan officials made a horrific discovery. Cholera was being introduced in a migrant settlement by refugees from South Sudan who were fleeing the extreme violence in their imploding country. In barely…
- Categories: Health and Population, Migration, Myanmar, Refugees, Take a Look, US-UN Relations
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