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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 10, 2021
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Calling all world leaders to the General Assembly; the Taliban shun women; Biden’s confounding foreign policy. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 7, 2021
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This year’s United Nations General Assembly could make or break the future of in-person meetings at the gathering in New York City. After a year of carefully negotiating, adapting and crafting health guidelines, UNGA organizers are hoping to avoid…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Latin America, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 3, 2021
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The UN’s priorities in Afghanistan for now; how certain multinational corporations feed on new-mothers’ fears amid Covid; Ireland’s envoy defends the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing…
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • August 25, 2021
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When Guatemala’s Attorney General Consuelo Porras recently removed the anticorruption leader Juan Francisco Sandoval from his post as the special prosecutor against impunity, her action ended the last semblance of prosecutorial independence generated by one of the most successful…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Migration, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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- Fiona Shukri
- • August 20, 2021
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United Nations staff members in Afghanistan who work for the UN political mission there say it has been failing to protect its national personnel since the Taliban’s sudden takeover of the country on Aug. 15 and as the United…
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- Lucas Dias Rodrigues dos Santos
- • August 5, 2021
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GENEVA — The United States is campaigning for election to the Human Rights Council in October for the 2022-24 term, starting a new chapter in its volatile relationship with the Geneva-based body. Its current re-engagement, including more acceptance of…
- Categories: Human Rights, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 30, 2021
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A deadly assault on the United Nations’ mission in Afghanistan; Myanmar’s junta seeks the UN envoy seat; the World Meteorological Organization’s troubles; Canada’s big step for Inuits. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing…
- Categories: General Assembly, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 24, 2021
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A US delegation to Haiti returns early; potential risks for the $87 billion UN pension fund; an ex-Guantánamo detainee may face torture in Russia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights, SDGs, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Clair MacDougall
- • July 20, 2021
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Yusuf Mingazov met his father, Ravil, for the first time through a videocall between a Red Cross office in Nottingham, Britain, and the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, where he had been imprisoned for more than 14 years….
- Categories: Human Rights, Terrorism, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 9, 2021
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Crucial aid into Syria continues; will a feminist head UN Women?; the good and bad of Security Council Arria meetings; Haiti on the edge. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Adam DuBard
- • July 7, 2021
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Recent laws passed by some states in the United States to restrict the right to protest have drawn the attention of Clément Voule, the United Nations expert on the rights to peaceful assembly and association. The UN released a…
- Categories: Human Rights, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 25, 2021
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Rafael Grossi of the IAEA on Iran, gender bias and diplomacy; nuke-weapons countries just keep spending billions; European peacekeepers attacked in Gao, Mali. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information…
- Categories: Africa, LGBT, Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Stephen Schlesinger
- • June 24, 2021
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One of America’s greatest supporters of the United Nations, Ambassador William vanden Heuvel, died on June 15 in New York City at age 91. A son of European immigrants, vanden Heuvel grew up in the upstate city of Rochester,…
- Categories: UN Diplomats, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 18, 2021
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The UN’s leader is sworn in for another term; Myanmar’s rapid instability; elevating the US ambassador’s profile. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue…
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- Irwin Arieff
- • June 15, 2021
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After four years of wandering lost in the desert, diplomacy is finding its way back to Washington. With Joe Biden in the Oval Office, “America First” is out and “multilateralism,” “cooperation” and “alliance” are no longer dirty words. Washington…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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