This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 10, 2022
This week, our focus is on rising food crises worldwide as a result of several converging factors, including Russia’s war on Ukraine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is…
- Categories: General Assembly, Peace and Security, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 3, 2022
This week, our focus is on the continuing efforts of the United Nations to reduce civilian casualties in different pockets of unrest across the globe. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization….
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 27, 2022
This week, UN peacekeepers are commemorated, an ex-UN staff member is convicted for assault and lying to the FBI and the war in Ukraine enters its third month. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights, Journalists, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 20, 2022
This week, enduring efforts to save lives in Ukraine, crippling droughts and Mexico’s disappeared. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and…
- Categories: Africa, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 13, 2022
This week, we focus on how the UN is further rallying support to combat the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the widespread condemnation against the killing of Al Jazeera’s reporter in Palestine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing…
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 6, 2022
This week, we report on the UN secretary-general’s Sahel region trip as he took the message of global peace and security to Niger, Nigeria and Senegal, and the momentous evacuation of civilians from Mariupol, Ukraine. You are reading This…
- Categories: Africa, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • April 29, 2022
This week, reporting on the UN’s efforts to help evacuate people still trapped in Mariupol as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine heads into its 10th week. So far, the UN hasn’t revealed any progress on its humanitarian corridor goal as…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • April 22, 2022
This week, the focus stays glued to Ukraine while a flicker of hope emerges in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, where children are getting new malaria vaccines. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the…
- Categories: Climate Change, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • April 1, 2022
This week, the spotlight remains on the desperate plight of millions of people around the world. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. This week, we bring you an analysis of President Putin’s…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 25, 2022
This week, the focus is on the humanitarian disasters from wars and violence around the world. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 18, 2022
This week, we place the lens on the United Nations itself as the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine surge into the fourth week of war. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 11, 2022
This week, the spotlight stays on Ukraine as civilian casualties multiply and cities are being pulverized since Russia invaded the country two weeks ago. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The…
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • March 5, 2022
Russia’s war on Ukraine escalates as at least one million people have fled. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other…
- Categories: Peace and Security, This Week @UN
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • February 25, 2022
This week, alas, a heavy spotlight on Ukraine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, read how…
- Categories: Peace and Security, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • February 18, 2022
Artillery shelling blasts eastern Ukraine; what’s the Collective Security Treaty Organization?; the UN boss jets to Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations