US-UN Relations
- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 26, 2020
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An A-to-Z list of Trump’s assaults on the rule of law; reactions to the US-Morocco-Western Sahara news; turmoil in the Central African Republic before elections. Happy Boxing Day! You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most…
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • December 21, 2020
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President Trump’s attacks on the rule of law in his four years in office have ranged from blatant disregard to outright breach of everything from well-established ethical values to universally accepted international norms, from United States laws and regulations…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 18, 2020
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Does UN Secretary-General António Guterres deserve another term; as Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out in New York City, what about UN staff and diplomats there; and how far will President-elect Biden go at the UN? You’re reading This Week…
- Categories: Health and Population, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Stephen Schlesinger
- • December 16, 2020
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As President-elect Joe Biden finds his footing in foreign affairs, one of his foremost challenges will be re-engaging with the United Nations. So far, he has said little about the organization, but he has just appointed a new UN…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 14, 2020
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Ever since the day in 1946 when the first secretary-general of the United Nations, Trygve Lie of Norway, took office, big powers have meddled in how the job is done. Most often, the United States has been the most…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 7, 2020
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When President-elect Joe Biden nominated Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be the next ambassador to the United Nations, he was signaling that American diplomacy would face big changes. If she is confirmed by the Senate in the new year, the UN…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 27, 2020
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The United States embraces diplomacy again; human-rights warnings in Ethiopia; who is the US nominee for UN ambassador? You are reading This Week @UN, highlighting the most important news on the world body. The information is drawn from the UN…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Governance, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • November 24, 2020
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President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to move quickly once he is in office to reverse Donald Trump’s ill-founded pledge to cut ties to the World Health Organization during a deadly worldwide plague. But it will not be easy for…
- Categories: Health and Population, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 23, 2020
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Advice is pouring into President-elect Joe Biden from around the United States and across the world on how to turn around the damage the Trump administration has inflicted in key policy areas. Advocates for public health, women’s rights and…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 20, 2020
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Africans are fed up with being sidelined in the Security Council; hey, Joe Biden, don’t overlook the UN; a mother of five competes against 12 men in the Burkina Faso presidential election. You are reading This Week @UN, highlighting the…
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • November 17, 2020
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President-elect Joe Biden’s first message to fellow world leaders was clear: America is back. But there’s a glaring omission in his foreign policy plan: the United Nations. After four years of the Trump administration’s defunding and leaving UN organizations…
- Categories: UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 6, 2020
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Are we there yet? The United States still awaits final presidential election results; one of the United Nations’ smallest countries leads the Security Council; and presidential election violence in Côte d’Ivoire. You are reading This Week @UN, highlighting the most…
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • November 4, 2020
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The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has so far remained silent on the United States Nov. 3 presidential election, despite concerns about possible violence in the country and President Trump having prematurely proclaimed victory. Indeed, the UN warned its…
- Categories: Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Beatrice Lindstrom and Joey Bui
- • October 30, 2020
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Ten years ago this month, Haiti confirmed the arrival of a deadly cholera epidemic that killed more than 10,000 people. The disease — and the United Nations’ response to it — has caused immeasurable harm in Haiti and undermined…
- Categories: Caribbean, OPINIONS, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • October 16, 2020
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Clair MacDougall was reporting on a follow-up story for PassBlue about Lieut. Col. Carlos Moisés Guillén Alfaro, the first official United Nations peacekeeper to die of Covid-19, when on Oct. 9 she heard that the World Food Program was awarded the…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Humanitarian Aid, US-UN Relations
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