Secretary-General
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 31, 2023
A 20,000-metric ton donation of fertilizer by a Russian company to the government of Malawi is slowly making its way to the landlocked country from the busy port of Beira, Mozambique, in southeast Africa. The World Food Program told…
- Categories: Africa, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 27, 2023
This week, we focus on the worsening violence in Haiti and a major firing of a UN official for corruption. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 23, 2023
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali is considering three distinct choices for its future operations, according to a new internal review. The analysis has been brought about by the mission’s “overstretched” status stemming from increased political and security…
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 20, 2023
This week, we focus on the crises in Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the United Nations intensifies peacekeeping and humanitarian remediation in the first weeks of 2023. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 15, 2023
Ukraine is dropping its “peace formula summit” that it wanted to hold at the United Nations to mark the yearlong anniversary, on Feb. 24, of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, a Western source familiar with the decision told PassBlue….
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 13, 2023
First, happy new year to all our readers! This is the first summary for 2023, and we are excited to bring you all the bits and intrigues from inside the United Nations. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing…
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 5, 2023
António Guterres has finished the first year of his second five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations. During his original term, from 2017-2022, he publicly avowed to bring gender parity to the UN. Recently, speaking on the fifth…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Women
- Dawn Clancy
- • December 20, 2022
For months, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, alongside Christian Wenaweser, Liechtenstein’s envoy, have been leading an effort at the UN to produce a draft resolution to support the notion of establishing an international tribunal to prosecute…
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 16, 2022
This week, opinion seemed divided on the decision to expel Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • December 14, 2022
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: Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 12, 2022
Ask anyone if they will expose a crime if they know their careers might be hurt, and they will most likely give an emphatic no. Yet this happens for many whistleblowers around the world, including at the United Nations….
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Agencies, UN Careers
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 9, 2022
This week, the Taliban carried out their first execution, letting a man shoot the person who allegedly murdered his son. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council, Terrorism, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 2, 2022
This week, we focus on the issues of intensifying violence in the Mideast raised separately by UN special envoys in the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 29, 2022
Guy Ryder, 66, immediate past director-general of the International Labor Organization for 10 years, begins his new role in New York City as the UN under secretary-general for policy, about 10 days into a World Cup rocked by accusations…
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, Migration, Secretary-General
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 23, 2022
Navi Pillay, who leads the United Nations Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry on Palestine and Israel, has written to the president of the General Assembly about a “matter of significant concern” involving the Israeli ambassador at a public…
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