UN Peacekeeping
- Clair MacDougall  and Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
- • March 16, 2022
GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Next to a white, scratched United Nations hangar, soldiers in green-and-gray fatigues straddled parts of a Mi-8 Soviet-style helicopter, adjusting motors and rotors in the morning light of March 7. One member…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Katarina Hoije
- • January 18, 2022
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — As Mali adapts to worsening security problems internally and the rest of the Sahel region by working with new partners, like a Russian paramilitary group, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali must also change…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping
- Irwin Arieff  and Deborah Baldwin
- • January 15, 2022
Nearly five years after the murder of two United Nations investigators in a rough and lonely patch of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, their lives and their deaths have become a metaphor for the extraordinary challenges faced by…
- Categories: Africa, BOOKS, UN Peacekeeping
- Clair MacDougall
- • December 23, 2021
The world’s deadliest peacekeeping mission has recorded a twofold increase in fatalities among its troops from improvised explosive devices this year over last year, reinforcing what analysts say: more sophisticated attacks are being carried out by jihadists in Mali…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • December 14, 2021
Ten unarmed United Nations peacekeepers traveling in a clearly identified UN minibus were wounded on Nov. 1 by gunshots fired at them by presidential palace guards in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Two of the peacekeepers…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping
- Joseph Alfred Grinblat
- • October 27, 2021
It is now 30 years since the United Nations referendum mission for Western Sahara, known as Minurso, was created, and I was one of the original staff members. Starting in 1971, Sahrawi students in Morocco started a movement for…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • August 2, 2021
The presidency of the Security Council is always a high time for a country’s diplomacy, but for India right now, it’s more than that. In August, the country is going to try to show the world why it deserves…
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 2, 2021
Ending racism across the world; UN peacekeeping’s $6 billion annual budget O.K.’d; Norway’s diplomatic troubles; gender equality on the front burner (for now). You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, UN Peacekeeping
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 1, 2021
France is in the diplomatic spotlight at the United Nations as it’s not only leading the Security Council for the month of July, but it is also just finishing up hosting the long-awaited Generation Equality Forum, a UN-led gathering…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Humanitarian Aid, Security Council Presidency, UN Peacekeeping
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • June 3, 2021
Almost a year ago, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization released a statement characterizing as “abhorrent” a video in which a man and a woman appeared to be having sex in the back seat of a four-wheel drive vehicle…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
- Sabrina White  and Fred Carver
- • May 12, 2021
LONDON — On taking his oath of office in December 2016, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres listed four priorities for his new job, the first combating sexual exploitation and sexual abuse across the UN system. In contrast, Guterres’s recent…
- Categories: Gender Violence, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 9, 2021
It was all over in one crucial week. Barring an unforeseen hitch, António Guterres is the clear winner of a second, five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations, beginning on Jan.1, 2022. This was not a surprise: he…
- Categories: Latin America, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 12, 2021
The US returns to the Human Rights Council; atrocities documented in the Mali conflict; a woman declares her candidacy for UN secretary-general. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization. The…
- Clair MacDougall
- • February 8, 2021
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — A recent United Nations investigation has documented years of grave human-rights violations, including war crimes and other atrocities, in Mali that have gone unpunished as the UN peacekeeping mission there struggles to stabilize the troubled…
- Munir Akram
- • February 2, 2021
The Jammu and Kashmir dispute is one of the oldest unresolved issues on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council. At the heart of the dispute is India’s illegal occupation and persistent refusal to allow the people of…
- Categories: Asia, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
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