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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 24, 2019
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A sea of new or lingering allegations of harassment and corruption in numerous agencies and programs in the United Nations system appears to be washing over a sprawling organization battered by scandal. Poor or careless management and oversight, from…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, Special Report, UN Agencies
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 4, 2016
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The United Nations will swear in António Guterres as its ninth secretary-general on Dec. 12, when the organization will be only weeks away from the inauguration of Donald Trump and the potentially most threatening, hostile political opposition to the…
- Categories: Special Report, UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 14, 2013
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Tsuneo Nishida, the Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, spoke recently on his country’s positions on peace and security, disarmament, human rights and UN reform. Japan, which is the world’s third-largest economy and second-biggest contributor (after the United States)…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Special Report
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 27, 2013
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The 57th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women ended in mid-March more with a sigh of relief than with jubilation. The commission, comprising 45 national delegations, managed to reach a final agreement (which it…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Special Report, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 13, 2013
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For the developing world, the news in the 2013 United Nations Human Development Report is almost all good. (More on that “almost” later.) The title of the report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World,…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, Health and Population, Special Report
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 28, 2012
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Many diplomats spoke their piece – if not rambled – at the newest United Nations General Assembly session this week, delivering speeches by at least 120 heads of state on a revolving door of themes. Yet in this sometimes…
- Categories: General Assembly, Special Report, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 17, 2012
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The clamor for United Nations reform has not stopped since its first days in 1945. Although ideas for changing the UN rise and fall each year, the newest calls for an overhaul involve development, one of the largest sectors…
- Categories: Development, Special Report
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