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The Topic Was the UN Charter, but the Backdrop Was a Just-Averted US-Iran War

January 9, 2020 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Six days after the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani of Iran by the United States and high-wire threats sent between President Trump and top officials of Iran, the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council and other nations finally had a chance to speak about the fight in an open forum. As …

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GEOPOLITICS

The Moment to End Turkey’s Other War, in Cyprus, Is Fading Fast

October 24, 2019 
by Stéphanie Fillion
Anywhere from the capital of Nicosia, day and night, Greek Cypriots can see a giant flag painted into the mountains in the north, in a separate region that calls itself the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It is an area that is recognized only by Turkey and isolated internationally. From the Greek side of …

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The $67 Billion UN Pension Fund: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

October 10, 2019 
by Loraine Rickard-Martin
Since 2014, when staff members of the United Nations Pension Fund blew the whistle on serious mismanagement in its secretariat, a change in leadership has been made on both sides — assets and liabilities — of the $67.4 billion fund. Yet the turmoil persists. Stabilizing the fund’s management and investment decisions has been mandated …

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WORLDVIEWS

Stalling the UN Report on Dag Hammarskjold’s Death Is Regrettable

September 17, 2019 
by Maurin Picard
Fifty-eight years ago, Dag Hammarskjold, the United Nations secretary-general at the time, set off on a perilous journey across the African heartland. Taking off at 4:51 P.M. from Léopoldville, in the capital of the newly independent Congo, he was due to meet the leader of the secessionist Katanga province. The venue chosen was Ndola, …

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Where’s Kelly Knight Craft? She Is Neither in Ottawa Nor at the UN

August 26, 2019 
by Irwin Arieff
Donald Trump must have known just what he was getting into when he named Kelly Knight Craft to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. But does Knight Craft understand the humiliating position the president is putting her into? Knight Craft, the soft-spoken wife of a billionaire coal executive from Kentucky, demonstrates …

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The UN Palestinian Refugee Agency Is in Hot Water, Again

August 5, 2019 
by Thalif Deen
Pierre Krahenbuhl
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which has been undermined by a sharp cut in United States contributions, has been embroiled in a scandal that threatens to jeopardize its very future. A report from the agency’s Ethics Office has found “credible and corroborated” evidence that the senior management of Unrwa engaged in “sexual …

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TOPIC: WOMEN

The Goal of Gender Parity in the UN: Proving That Women Are Equal to Men

March 19, 2019 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Ana Menéndez is a former Spanish diplomat who oversees the gender parity strategy at the United Nations, working directly for Secretary-General António Guterres for a year and a half now on one of his main priorities at the institution. Menéndez is tasked with the role — besides being responsible for overall UN policy — after …

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WORLDVIEWS

The Elusive Truth About the Death of Dag Hammarskjold and My Father

February 5, 2019 
by Hynrich W. Wieschhoff
My clock radio clicked on. The morning news bulletin announced that United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane was missing. It was Sept. 18, 1961. I was 16. Over the next hours, my mother and sisters and I learned that Mr. Hammarskjöld, accompanied by Dad and 14 others, had flown from Leopoldville, in the Congo, …

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WORLDVIEWS

The UN’s Gender Parity Goals: The Backlash Begins

January 23, 2019 
by Anne Marie Goetz and Paige Arthur
One year into the United Nations’ new strategy for gender parity among staff members at all levels, a gendered backlash has emerged, even as parity has been achieved at the highest echelons of the world body. Political will from UN leaders beyond the secretary-general and member states is needed to ensure that where the …

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Another UN Harassment Case Quietly Disappears

January 6, 2019 
by Barbara Crossette
Amid a busy December, when the United Nations was focusing on important conferences on climate change and migration and year-end holidays loomed, a case of harassment that never got the traction it arguably deserved ended in a traditional UN way: it disappeared. On Dec. 14, the chairman of the International Civil Service Commission, which …

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WORLDVIEWS

The Role of the Private Sector in Building Peace: It’s Essential

December 11, 2018 
by Graciana del Castillo
Another year of Secretary-General António Guterres’s reform of the peace and security pillar of the United Nations is ending without fully addressing a main obstacle to peacebuilding in conflict-torn countries under UN intervention: sustainable economic recovery. The key question facing the UN is how to support economic reconstruction amid the political, security and social reforms …

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GEOPOLITICS

Pressures Mount for UN to Create a Probe Into Khashoggi Murder

November 19, 2018 
by Barbara Crossette
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, right, with Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, Nov. 19, 2018
Secretary-General António Guterres is now the focus of concerted demands for the United Nations to establish an independent international tribunal to investigate the brutal murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the country’s consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. International action has been stymied amid changing accounts from the Saudis, uncertainty over which …

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WORLDVIEWS

The UN Is Under Siege, So Where Is the Secretary-General?

September 18, 2018 
by Thomas G. Weiss
Was it only two years ago that so many people were elated by the appointment of António Guterres as secretary-general of the United Nations? After public debates organized by the president of the General Assembly and informal ones by the 1-for-7-Billion “Find the Best UN Leader” coalition, he emerged as the top candidate in …

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