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- Opinion by Hasmik Egian and Mouin Rabbani
- • November 28, 2023
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Karim Khan’s unprecedented politicization of the International Criminal Court since assuming the role of Prosecutor in June 2021 has significantly eroded the credibility of the Court just as he should be taking serious steps to address its declining legitimacy. Khan …
- Categories: ICC, International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Joe Penney
- • November 26, 2023
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YEREVAN, Armenia — Since Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan came to office in 2018 on the heels of a democratic revolution in which he played a central role, his administration has faced numerous security and political crises. The protracted conflict …
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security, Refugees, Security Council
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- Opinion by Anne Marie Goetz
- • November 25, 2023
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A new independent analysis of how the United Nations should deal with the wide-ranging challenges plaguing Afghanistan is likely to be debated privately in the Security Council on Nov. 28. Although the Taliban are unequivocal in their contempt for human …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Arthur Bassas
- • November 17, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming from the organization while promoting our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. Forty days into the Israel-Hamas war, the UN Security Council …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • November 16, 2023
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After 40 days of war in Gaza, the United Nations Security Council finally passed a binding resolution calling for immediate humanitarian pauses and corridors to enable essential help to reach civilians, especially children, in the besieged Palestinian enclave. But some …
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 13, 2023
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Thirty-seven days into one of the deadliest wars in the Mideast in recent history, the United Nations worldwide marked the loss of 101 of its own personnel killed in the Israel-Hamas fighting that began on Oct. 7, when the Palestinian …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • November 10, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming from the organization while promoting our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. Thirty-three days into the Israel-Hamas war, 11,078 deaths have been …
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- Opinion by Akshaya Kumar
- • November 9, 2023
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The Rapid Support Forces, an independent military group with a long history of abuse in Sudan, has reached El Fasher, the only major city in the Darfur region still outside its control. Since April, the RSF have been fighting the …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Damilola Banjo
- • November 8, 2023
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FAIRFAX, Va. — Muslim Uyghurs living in the United States, more than 7,000 miles from their homeland in China, know that their actions as a diaspora community can put their families back in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in danger. …
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Security Council
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- Arthur Bassas
- • November 3, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news emanating from the organization as well as promote our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. The agonizing toll on civilians caught in the …
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- Opinion by Louise Blais
- • October 30, 2023
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The saddest part of the spectacle of three competing United Nations Security Council resolutions on the Israel-Hamas conflict all failing in the last few weeks is that it was classic Council intractability and, as such, not a surprise. The inability …
- Categories: General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Arthur Bassas
- • October 27, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news emanating from the organization as well as promote our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. By donating to PassBlue, a women-led, independent nonprofit news …
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- Dawn Clancy
- • October 26, 2023
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Every year, women’s equal roles in peace talks are highlighted in October at the United Nations. This time, the women, peace and security agenda, as it’s known, got attention outside the UN, near the steps to its main entrance on …
- Categories: Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 23, 2023
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Russia, to possibly divert global attention from its continuing atrocities and struggling military goals in Ukraine, while seizing a chance to act as a responsible world power, is trying to take a major role influencing how various United Nations bodies …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • October 20, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news emanating from the organization as well as promote our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. By donating to PassBlue, a women-led nonprofit news site, …