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Political Will: The Missing Link to Ending Sex Abuse in UN Peacekeeping

September 24, 2017 
by Barbara Crossette
It is not surprising that António Guterres, the first United Nations secretary-general to be rooted in a life of politics and the first to have been a head of government, would look for a political strategy to address one of the UN’s most self-inflicted wounds: persistent sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping missions. When …

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WORLDVIEWS

New Wine in Old Bottles: Germany and Conflict Prevention at the UN

September 15, 2017 
by Aurelie Domisse
BERLIN — Just as Germany’s run for a nonpermanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2019-20 term is gathering steam, its government has published a new white paper, titled “Preventing Crises, Managing Conflicts, Building Peace.” In this release, Germany promises to become more active in the mostly civilian aspects of conflict …

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Myanmar, North Korea, Gender Parity: Guterres Highlights the Topics of the UN Debate

September 13, 2017 
by Dulcie Leimbach
António Guterres, the UN secretary-general
António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, said the top two problems he would highlight the most at the opening session of the General Assembly next week were Myanmar’s rapidly unfolding humanitarian disaster and North Korea’s nuclear-weapons provocations. “The humanitarian situation is catastrophic,” Guterres said at a media briefing on Sept. 13 at …

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Stopping Sex Abuse in UN Peacekeeping: Guterres’s Direct Call for Political Support

September 12, 2017 
by Barbara Crossette
The United Nations’ top coordinator of a drive to end sexual exploitation and abuse in and around peacekeeping missions says the organization cannot succeed without more political support from member nations and cooperation from independent, civilian humanitarian and development agencies working with the UN. Jane Holl Lute, the special coordinator with the rank of …

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Trump to Force UN Reform Agenda at General Assembly Session in September

August 30, 2017 
by Kacie Candela
The United States is planning to hold a high-level meeting on United Nations reform during the opening days of the 72nd General Assembly debate. The Sept. 18 meeting is to be chaired by Donald Trump and held a day before he is scheduled to address the UN for the first time as America’s president in …

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Where Are the Female Leaders at the UN? Gender Bias Persists

August 28, 2017 
by Ingvild Bode
The exhibition “HERStory: A Celebration of Leading Women in the United Nations” was held at the Unesco headquarters in Paris this summer, after it made its debut in New York last year. Designed to showcase the contributions of female leaders throughout the UN’s history, it featured such high-profile personalities as Margaret Anstee, the first …

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WORLDVIEWS

Has Anyone Seen the UN Secretary-General’s Human Rights Agenda?

August 22, 2017 
by Bertrand G. Ramcharan
Secretary-General António Guterres has set about modernizing some sectors of the United Nations and made impassioned statements about the need to protect human rights. But beyond rhetoric, so far there has been no indication of his modernizing the human-rights sector. We have seen this before. Dag Hammarskjold, a previous secretary-general, undoubtedly believed in human …

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TOPIC: WOMEN

UN Chief Asks All Nations to Sign New Pact Protecting Women

August 21, 2017 
by Barbara Crossette
Haunted by accumulating reports of sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls by United Nations peacekeepers and others attached to UN missions around the world, Secretary-General António Guterres is taking the bold, unprecedented step of asking all governments to sign a compact pledging to prevent and stop these violations. The compact is voluntary …

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GEOPOLITICS

US Congress Starts Slicing Away at 2018 National Budget, Sure to Hurt UN

July 24, 2017 
by Barbara Crossette
The first round in the battle to write a federal budget, working off the Trump administration’s ruthless proposals announced in May, has ended in the House of Representatives appropriations committee. As feared by advocates for women, the poor, refugees, global health programs and even foreign language study, the Republican-led appropriations committee, which sets budget …

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US Pressures UN Chief to Take the Executive Reins

July 17, 2017 
by Dulcie Leimbach
António Guterres just laid out his first major reform plan for the United Nations through a report presenting concrete suggestions embedded in wonky language and hyperbole. One recommendation that stands out is the emphasis by Guterres, the secretary-general, to reassert his role as the chief executive of the UN. It is that emphasis on …

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GEOPOLITICS

As the UN Chief Goes to Washington, He Reiterates Plight of Refugees

June 20, 2017 
by Dulcie Leimbach
Photo: UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
On International Refugee Day, António Guterres reiterated the plight of refugees and displaced people worldwide — a phenomenal 65.5 million people — in his first media briefing at United Nations headquarters in months. He let drop that he is traveling to Washington, D.C., from June 27-29 to lobby Congressional members on UN budget matters. …

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GEOPOLITICS

On Climate Change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres Swipes at the US

May 30, 2017 
by Dulcie Leimbach
“Allow me to be blunt,” António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, told his audience to an uneasy laugh. “Our world is in a mess.” Although Guterres could have been speaking to any audience anywhere, he was addressing a crowd gathered at the Stern Center for Sustainable Business at New York University on May 30, …

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GEOPOLITICS

Can António Guterres Fend Off Trump’s War on the UN?

April 10, 2017 
by Dulcie Leimbach
When António Guterres was chosen by the United Nations Security Council in October to become the next leader of the UN, neither he nor anyone else could have predicted precisely who would be commanding the Oval Office of the White House in January 2017, just as Guterres’s term opened. Now that Donald Trump has …

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WORLDVIEWS

Advice to António Guterres: A Leaner UN Could Be a Better UN

March 27, 2017 
by Stephen Browne  and  Thomas G. Weiss
GENEVA — Whether or not he is a fan of Chinese characters, António Guterres will have to discover the double meaning of a crisis as opportunity. United Nations corridors on First Avenue in New York are buzzing with anxiety about the possibility of impending cuts in funding from the United States, with hints from …

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WORLDVIEWS

UN Secretary-General Guterres: Please Protect Our Pension Fund

March 2, 2017 
by Loraine Rickard-Martin
United Nations staff members and retirees, concerned for many years about low-investment performance by our $54 billion pension fund and unprecedented delays in benefit payments, welcomed the adoption last December of a General Assembly resolution that allayed worries about attempts to privatize the fund. The resolution reaffirmed that UN financial rules and regulations remain the …

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