OPINIONS
- Opinion by Laila Lutf Al-Thawr
- • June 1, 2021
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CAIRO — “They dug a hole in the ground, threw us in and shot at us randomly. I only survived because a body laid on top of me. Al Qaeda has my friends — please help me save them.”…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Franz Baumann
- • May 25, 2021
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In September 2016, the German parliament unanimously adopted the Paris Agreement. The government then translated Germany’s commitments under the agreement into a Climate Protection Law, which was approved by the Bundestag in November 2019 with a wide majority, making…
- Categories: Climate Change, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Damian Lilly
- • May 19, 2021
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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, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Opinion by Sabrina White and Fred Carver
- • May 12, 2021
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LONDON — On taking his oath of office in December 2016, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres listed four priorities for his new job, the first combating sexual exploitation and sexual abuse across the UN system. In contrast, Guterres’s recent…
- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Erwin R. Tiongson
- • May 1, 2021
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Anastasia Dragon Nezeriotis — Anne to her colleagues and friends — died in Clearwater, Fla., 25 years ago last month. A native of Lynn, Mass., she was a teacher at Lynn English High School, her obituary said. She married…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, OPINIONS, UN Diplomats
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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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- Opinion by Susana Malcorra
- • April 22, 2021
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As a woman who has worked for the United Nations in emergency and humanitarian operations, I am deeply shaken over what is occurring in the protracted conflict in Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, where reports of human suffering, including growing…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Opinion by Sebastian Borchmeyer
- • April 20, 2021
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For 60 years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has measured money flows to developing countries. It adopted the benchmark standard for foreign aid, which it coined Official Development Assistance — or ODA — in 1969. In 2020,…
- Categories: Development, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
- • April 11, 2021
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While the United Nations focuses fitfully on its own long string of refugee problems, President Joe Biden has tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to resolve the problems of migration at the United States-Mexico border. There are legitimate reasons for…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Gabrielle Alves
- • April 7, 2021
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Regional cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean is declining, with intergovernmental organizations, such as the Organization of American States and Mercosur, nearly paralyzed or underperforming because of political divergences among member states, weak commitments…
- Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • March 23, 2021
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GENEVA — One of the quiet pleasures of life is an early-morning cappuccino in the company of a good newspaper. That was before Covid-19 came along. The pandemic and resulting disruption of newspaper deliveries and shuttering of cafes has…
- Categories: Development, OPINIONS, SDGs
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- Opinion by Peter Splinter
- • March 17, 2021
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GENEVA — The United States’ decision to re-engage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, announced last month, has been welcomed in many quarters. The news offered a sense of the priorities the US would have in returning to…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Vera Dimoplon
- • March 12, 2021
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While recently attending a virtual tour of the United Nations Office at Vienna, I was astonished to learn that the translation services did not include sign language interpreters. There are six official UN languages — Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian…
- Categories: Disabilities, OPINIONS, SDGs
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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 Mouna Ghanem
- • March 8, 2021
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COPENHAGEN — In her book, “The Second Sex,” Simone de Beauvoir argued that one is not born but rather becomes a woman. De Beauvoir emphasized that destiny is not a cosmic force but a human choice, a result of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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