Security Council

The UN Can Do Much More to Resolve Khashoggi’s Murder, Says Agnès Callamard

October 2, 2019

Exactly a year after Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi-born, American-based journalist, was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnès Callamard, remains categorical: UN Secretary-General António Guterres can and should do more about the murder, and so should member states. “I am asking the …

Human Rights, Journalists, Middle East, Security Council

Agnes Callamard, António Guterres, freedom of speech, Hatice Cengiz, Jamal Khashoggi, UN Human Rights Council, UN Security Council, UN special rapporteur

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O, Canada, Where Are You at the #UNGA?

September 25, 2019

by Stéphanie Fillion

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a point of bringing Canada back to the international stage at the United Nations to win a coveted nonpermanent seat on the Security Council for the 2021-22 term. But amid Trudeau’s re-election campaign and an international scandal around his use of blackface, Canada has sent a low-level delegation …

General Assembly, Security Council

Canada at the UN, Justin Trudeau, UNGA2019

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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 …

Secretary-General, Security Council, The Trump Years

António Guterres, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Donald Trump, Iran nuclear deal, Kelly Knight Craft, Mike Pompeo and UN, Nikki Haley, Senator Bob Menendez, UN Security Council, US ambassador to UN, US-UN relations, USUN

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Who Is Kelly Knight Craft? A Podcast to Get to Know the New US Ambassador to the UN

August 21, 2019

by Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela

She calls herself a homemaker, a philanthropist and a consultant, but who, exactly, is Kelly Knight Craft, the newly confirmed United States ambassador to the United Nations? This week, UN-Scripted, PassBlue’s new podcast series, features veteran journalist and PassBlue columnist Irwin Arieff, who describes how Knight Craft will handle all the hot files at …

Security Council, The Trump Years, US-UN Relations

Donald Trump, Irwin Arieff, Kelly Knight Craft, Nikki Haley, UN Security Council, UN-Scripted podcast series, US mission to the UN

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Pompeo Finds Little Appetite at the UN for His Iran Strategy

August 20, 2019

by Dulcie Leimbach

In the middle of a muggy August afternoon in New York, the United Nations Security Council gathered once more to figure out how to “maintain peace and security” in the Middle East. But the recurring topic always leaves conversations wide open for interpretation by the Council’s 15 members. The concept by Poland as Council …

Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

António Guterres, Brian Hook, Donald Trump, Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA, Kelly Knight Craft, Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, UN Security Council

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Kashmir May Be an Old Crisis at the UN, but the World Is Now Riveted

August 19, 2019

by Barbara Crossette

A familiar refrain often heard when the burgeoning crisis in Kashmir rises to the top of the news is that this is an old story from long ago; we have moved on. The United Nations is discovering, however, that there is less tolerance for indifference since India’s decrees on Aug. 5-6 to singlehandedly remake …

Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council

António Guterres, China and Kashmir, Imran Khan, Kashmir, Kashmir and human rights, Narendra Modi, Russia and Kashmir, UN Resolution 38, UN Security Council, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein

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Kashmiri Muslims in Danger as Hindu Politicians Cancel Their Rights

August 9, 2019

by Barbara Crossette

It has always been relatively easy for Indian governments from both the political left and right to keep Kashmir from the eyes of the world. At no time has this been more obvious than now. Landlocked, under the guns of half a million Indian troops and paramilitaries, cut off sporadically from all modern communications …

Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council

António Guterres, Bharatiya Janata Party, India and Pakistan rift, Kashmir, Kashmiri Muslims, Maleeha Lodhi, Security Council resolution 38, Simla Agreement, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan, UN Security Council, UNMOGIP

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WORLDVIEWS

The Future of UN Peacekeeping Will Resemble What It Is Now

July 16, 2019

by Dennis Jett

The United Nations was not even three years old when it launched its first peacekeeping mission in 1948. For the last 70 years, it has been continuously involved in such operations, often with mixed results. Over that time, peacekeeping and the wars to which it has been applied have changed. The challenges peacekeepers face …

Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS

Britain and UN peacekeeping, France and Western Sahara, John Bolton and UN peacekeeping, Russia and UN peacekeeping, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council, US and UN peacekeeping

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WORLDVIEWS

Women’s Rights Defenders Are Tired of Being Told to ‘Push Back’ Against the Opposition

July 8, 2019

by Hayley Willingale

As a human-rights defender and women’s rights campaigner, I continue to be struck not by the many challenges now facing women’s rights organizations but by the constant calls for women to “push back against the pushback.” This call for women to push back against the many forces oppressing women’s rights organizations was repeated in …

Africa, Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS

António Guterres, Cameroon and the UN Security Council, Commission on the Status of Women, gender equality, gender inequality, Paul Biya, Reach Out and Cameroon, UN Security Council, violence against women, women's rights, women's rights defenders

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SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENCY

Peru’s Security Council Presidency: Watching Over Latin America

July 2, 2019

by Stéphanie Fillion

Peru, the second country after Colombia to accept the most refugees from Venezuela, has so far taken in 800,000 Venezuelans escaping their nation’s crushing economic and political crisis. But the Peruvian government has recently changed its travel requirements, asking migrants and refugees to have a humanitarian visa and a passport to enter the country. Despite the change, …

Latin America, Security Council, Security Council Presidency

Colombia peace agreement, Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, International Contact Group and Venezuela, Lima Group, Peru and the UN Security Council, UN mission in Colombia, UN Security Council, Venezuela crisis

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A Survey on Mali for Malians: What They Want for Their Country

June 24, 2019

by Dulcie Leimbach

Since 2012, a German political think tank has surveyed Malians regularly on their country’s current affairs across a legion of crises. These include the 2013 jihadist incursion in the nation, the French-led militarization to oust the jihadists, the post-conflict stabilization work done by the United Nations and a new cycle of intercommunal violence erupting …

Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

FES, G5 Sahel force, Mali and UN, Minusma, Minusma mandate, Operation Barkhane, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council, US-UN relations

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Trump’s UN Pick Softens on Climate Change, but Not on Paris Accord

June 19, 2019

by Irwin Arieff

Kelly Knight Craft, Donald Trump’s pick to be the next United States ambassador to the United Nations, raised eyebrows in her June 19 Senate confirmation hearing by putting some space between her views on global climate change and those of the president. But Trump needn’t worry that she might end up threatening her boss’s …

Security Council, The Trump Years, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

Climate Change, Donald Trump, gender equality, gender inequality, Joseph Craft III, Kelly Knight Craft, Nikki Haley, Palestine-Israel peace deal, UN Human Rights Council, UN Security Council, UNFPA, US ambassadors to the UN, US mission to the UN, women's rights

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Call Me Dame Karen: UK’s Ambassador Dashes Style With Diplomacy

June 12, 2019

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

Reporting on activists who work with the United Nations and other global institutions on issues related to the women, peace and security agenda is crucial, but it can be, admittedly, dry. So we decided to look at the diplomats and others working at the UN who are advancing women’s rights in what is still …

Security Council, Women

Dame Karen Pierce, gender equality, gender inequality, Rula Ghani, UK mission to the UN, UN diplomacy, UN Security Council, women ambassadors at the UN, women's rights

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How Uruguayan Peacekeepers Found the Two Dead UN Experts in Congo in 2017

May 29, 2019

by Dulcie Leimbach

Two years have passed since the shooting murders of Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalán, independent experts working for the United Nations Security Council in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in March 2017. Sharp, a 34-year-old American, and Catalán, a 36-year-old Swedish-Chilean, had gone on a mission, without UN escorts, to find information about …

Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping

Col. Luis Mangini, Kamuina Nsapu, Michael Sharp, Monusco, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Zaida Catalan

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Pulling Back the Curtain on the US Mission to the UN

May 22, 2019

by Kacie Candela

The next United States ambassador to the United Nations, which could be Kelly Knight Craft, will arrive at a US mission to the UN that is far diminished in size and stature than the one her immediate predecessor, Nikki Haley, inherited. In the last month, numerous former staff members and high-level personnel from the …

General Assembly, Security Council, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

Austin Smith, Cherith Norman Chalet, CSW 2019, Donald Trump, gender equality, Jonathan Cohen, Kelly Currie, Kelly Knight Craft, Nikki Haley, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, US-UN relations, Vice President Pence, violence against women, women's rights

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Security Council

The UN Can Do Much More to Resolve Khashoggi’s Murder, Says Agnès Callamard

O, Canada, Where Are You at the #UNGA?

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

Who Is Kelly Knight Craft? A Podcast to Get to Know the New US Ambassador to the UN

Pompeo Finds Little Appetite at the UN for His Iran Strategy

Kashmir May Be an Old Crisis at the UN, but the World Is Now Riveted

Kashmiri Muslims in Danger as Hindu Politicians Cancel Their Rights

The Future of UN Peacekeeping Will Resemble What It Is Now

Women’s Rights Defenders Are Tired of Being Told to ‘Push Back’ Against the Opposition

Peru’s Security Council Presidency: Watching Over Latin America

A Survey on Mali for Malians: What They Want for Their Country

Trump’s UN Pick Softens on Climate Change, but Not on Paris Accord

Call Me Dame Karen: UK’s Ambassador Dashes Style With Diplomacy

How Uruguayan Peacekeepers Found the Two Dead UN Experts in Congo in 2017

Pulling Back the Curtain on the US Mission to the UN

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