UN Peacekeeping
- Opinion by Sabrina White  and Fred Carver
- • May 12, 2021
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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, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 9, 2021
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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
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 12, 2021
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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…
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- Clair MacDougall
- • February 8, 2021
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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…
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- Opinion by Munir Akram
- • February 2, 2021
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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, OPINIONS, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • January 23, 2021
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The Sahel humanitarian crisis grows; Biden is sworn in as the 46th United States president; the nuclear ban treaty enters into force. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the international organization. The information…
- Categories: Africa, Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • January 18, 2021
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This year, two expansive — and expensive — international peace and security entities will pass a significant milestone. The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the NATO operation in Afghanistan have been deployed…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, OPINIONS, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2020
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In a year of anniversaries at the United Nations, one stands out of special interest to women in peacekeeping and humanitarian work in conflict zones and other arenas of crisis where civilian rights are trampled on and families and…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
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- Opinion by Karim Makdisi
- • September 3, 2020
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On Aug. 28, the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to renew its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, called Unifil, for another year. This unanimity, however, masked what had been a series of heated informal discussions on the nature…
- Categories: Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • August 17, 2020
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The devastating series of explosions that rocked Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Aug. 4, killed nearly 200 people, injured thousands of others, destroyed most of the city’s port, flattened surrounding neighborhoods, damaged six hospitals and more than 20…
- Categories: Covid-19, Middle East, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Clair MacDougall
- • August 5, 2020
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OUAGADOUGOU,‌ ‌Burkina‌ ‌Faso‌ ‌–‌ ‌Fernando‌ ‌Guillén,‌ ‌un‌ ‌jugador‌ ‌de‌ ‌22‌ ‌años‌ ‌y‌ ‌YouTuber,‌ ‌encendió‌ ‌su‌ ‌computadora,‌ ‌tomó‌ ‌un‌ ‌sorbo‌ ‌de‌ ‌agua, y ‌respiró‌ ‌hondo‌ ‌y‌ ‌agradeció‌ ‌a‌ ‌Dios‌ ‌por‌ ‌estar‌ ‌vivo ‌antes‌ ‌de‌ ‌comenzar‌ ‌su‌ ‌transmisión‌ ‌en‌ ‌vivo‌ ‌a través de‌…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, UN Peacekeeping
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- Clair MacDougall
- • July 27, 2020
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Fernando Guillén, a 22-year-old gamer and YouTuber, switched on his computer, took a sip of water and a deep breath and thanked God for being alive, before beginning his live stream on video games from…
- Categories: Covid-19, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Kseniya Oksamytna and Vincenzo Bove and Magnus Lundgren
- • July 7, 2020
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Leaders of United Nations peacekeeping operations comprise an important and unique category of high-level officials in the world body. They have a difficult and often thankless job of trying to manage “Christmas tree” mandates handed down by the Security…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Niemat Ahmadi
- • May 27, 2020
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The world plans to withdraw peacekeepers from Darfur by the end of this year. Without an alternative in place, this premature departure is a disaster in the making for the millions of Darfuris it will leave behind. While the…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Susan Manuel
- • May 5, 2020
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Covid-19 has forced educators from preschools to universities to create digital classrooms overnight. But at least one global community has been using e-learning for more than a decade. Tens of thousands of United Nations peacekeepers from Chile to Bangladesh…
- Categories: Covid-19, UN Peacekeeping
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