UN Special Envoys
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 17, 2022
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This week, our focus is on the failure of the decades-old women, peace and security agenda and Britain’s stalled plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the…
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 26, 2021
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UN envoy for Libya resigns; older women’s rights forgotten by the General Assembly; UN staff’s dependents to leave Ethiopia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Libya, This Week @UN, UN Special Envoys
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 22, 2021
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The UN boss points to rising global military spending as a source of gendered violence; the UN’s tech envoy, mired in controversy, may be exiting; the Human Rights Council rolls out a multimillion-dollar project with the Philippines. You are…
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • October 20, 2021
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Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond, a Chilean who has had a long career with the United Nations, remains a controversial figure among some staff members, stemming from a UN inquiry into his workplace behavior that began in December 2020. Certain countries…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Special Envoys
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 15, 2021
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The Taliban break promises to women in Afghanistan; Mali moving toward combatant reintegration; the Kafkaesque legal work representing Gitmo detainees. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Security Council, This Week @UN, UN Diplomats, UN Special Envoys, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 29, 2021
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The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs lost control over how the International Peace Institute, a New York City think tank formerly financed by Norway, spent the money, an investigation by the country’s Office of the Auditor General found. The…
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 30, 2021
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Veronique Vandegans, the United Nations chief of the French Interpretation Section, working at home in Brooklyn, N.Y., with company. The photo is part of a story for the UN Department of Global Communications on remote interpretation. MANUEL ELIAS/UN PHOTO The…
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 2, 2021
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United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken dials the UN; Mexico’s dual-personality approach to women’s rights; a deadly French airstrike on a wedding in Mali; two new applicants for secretary-general. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most…
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 26, 2021
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Anti-Asian violence; the closing window for a woman secretary-general; a UN expert threatened by Saudi Arabia; the UN’s humanitarian-aid agency cries out for changes. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The…
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • November 16, 2020
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Ignoring two proposals from Africa to fill the United Nations special envoy post for Libya, the United States demanded that the secretary-general, António Guterres, accept its own choice, several diplomats have told PassBlue. The maneuver could leave Africa with…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Libya, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Special Envoys
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- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • December 23, 2019
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This year was a big one for China, and 2020 is likely to be much the same — if not more intense, given the range of issues involving the United States and far beyond. For our last episode of…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Geopolitics, Security Council, UN Special Envoys
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- Joanne Myers
- • August 13, 2019
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David Kaye, a leading voice on human rights in the digital age, is also a United Nations special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, a post he has held since August 2014. The author of…
- Categories: Human Rights, UN Special Envoys
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- Opinion by Dali ten Hove
- • October 25, 2018
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The status of young people around the world is gaining traction at the United Nations. In September, it introduced a strategy called Youth 2030, its end date coinciding with the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN’s main plan for global development….
- Categories: OPINIONS, UN Special Envoys
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- Chris Gelardi
- • March 5, 2018
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Martin Griffiths, the new United Nations special envoy for Yemen and a British international mediator, will begin work this month on a war that is called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Griffiths is highly praised in the arena of…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, UN Special Envoys
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- Kacie Candela
- • April 30, 2017
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Two women have been named to highly visible posts at the United Nations: Pramila Patten of Mauritius is the new special envoy on sexual violence in conflict and begins in mid-June; and Virginia Gamba, an Argentine, is special envoy on children…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, UN Special Envoys, Women
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