OPINIONS
- Opinion by Houry Geudelekian
- • March 5, 2023
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As I reflect on my final year chairing the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, which organizes the forum parallel to the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, I wonder, How did I get here?…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Natalie Samarasinghe
- • February 22, 2023
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Inaction on climate. The grossly unequal response to Covid-19. Bailing out banks instead of helping the least-developed countries. The different and disproportionate approaches to conflicts in Africa and the Middle East. The failure to prevent atrocities in Palestine, Myanmar,…
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • February 16, 2023
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Last year was tough for United Nations peacekeeping operations, especially in Africa. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local people demonstrated angrily against the perceived inability of peacekeepers to protect civilians in the east of the country. In…
- Categories: Africa, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Lex Takkenberg
- • January 26, 2023
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António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, told the Security Council recently that he was “very concerned” about “unilateral initiatives” by the new Israeli government, noting that “the rule of law is at the heart of achieving a comprehensive peace”…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Adrian Steube
- • January 9, 2023
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In 2022, Russia’s full-fledged war in Ukraine left its mark on the United Nations Security Council, further dividing the most-influential body in the institution. Comparing Council members’ votes in 2021 with 2022, it is clear that discord has increased…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Fergal Mythen
- • January 3, 2023
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In the summer of 2022, as I prepared to become Ireland’s Ambassador to the United Nations, I watched the Security Council from afar. I questioned if Russia’s aggression against Ukraine might sound a death knell for diplomacy at that…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Opinion by Kateryna Rashevska
- • December 26, 2022
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KYIV — During its eight years of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has systematically pursued a policy of eradicating Ukrainian identity among children in the occupied territories. Deportation, separation from parents, transfer to Russian families, imposition of citizenship, Russification and…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Vincent Ploton
- • December 22, 2022
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As Volker Turk, the new United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is in his second month in office, it’s a good moment to take stock of his early moves. Turk’s predecessors have all upheld the dominant UN discourse…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Irwin Arieff
- • December 19, 2022
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Early and often during his 2016 run for the presidency, Donald Trump vowed to pull Washington out of the Iran nuclear agreement the moment he arrived at the White House. The pact, brokered the year before by Barack Obama,…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Ukraine-Russia War, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
- • December 14, 2022
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Over the last few months, there has been a lot of loose talk from President Joseph Biden and others comparing the Ukrainian crisis with the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Lately, that talk has died away. There may be many…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
- • November 30, 2022
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The decision at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to establish a fund to assist developing countries address loss and damage from the adverse impacts of climate change was a momentous signal of hope for humanity and the planet. The…
- Categories: Climate Change, OPINIONS, SDGs
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- Opinion by Tapio Kanninen and Heikki Talvitie
- • November 21, 2022
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Globalization, with its pros and cons, is broken. The world is troubled by local and regional crises, and attempts to solve them are dividing countries, both small and large, in a way that prevents a common will from emerging…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • November 14, 2022
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In September, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda took their allegations against each other over the resurgence of conflict in the eastern Congo to the United Nations General Assembly. I recall vividly similar claims…
- Categories: Africa, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Susana Malcorra
- • November 7, 2022
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The deterioration of women’s rights across the world is enabling more gender-based violence. Even those who strive to defend and even expand their privileges at the exclusion of others recognize that half the global population suffers inequalities and injustice….
- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Natalie Samarasinghe
- • October 27, 2022
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“The United Nations is dead,” said the Catholic Herald in 1947, two years after the UN was founded. Reports of its demise are perennial, but they seem to have reached a crescendo this year, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council
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