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- Lex Takkenberg
- • January 26, 2023
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, told the Security Council recently that he was “very concerned” about “unilateral initiatives” by the new Israeli government, noting that “the rule of law is at the heart of achieving a comprehensive peace”…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, WORLDVIEWS
- Adrian Steube
- • January 9, 2023
In 2022, Russia’s full-fledged war in Ukraine left its mark on the United Nations Security Council, further dividing the most-influential body in the institution. Comparing Council members’ votes in 2021 with 2022, it is clear that discord has increased…
- Categories: Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, WORLDVIEWS
- Fergal Mythen
- • January 3, 2023
In the summer of 2022, as I prepared to become Ireland’s Ambassador to the United Nations, I watched the Security Council from afar. I questioned if Russia’s aggression against Ukraine might sound a death knell for diplomacy at that…
- Categories: Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Kateryna Rashevska
- • December 26, 2022
KYIV — During its eight years of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has systematically pursued a policy of eradicating Ukrainian identity among children in the occupied territories. Deportation, separation from parents, transfer to Russian families, imposition of citizenship, Russification and…
- Categories: Human Rights, Ukraine-Russia War, WORLDVIEWS
- Vincent Ploton
- • December 22, 2022
As Volker Turk, the new United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is in his second month in office, it’s a good moment to take stock of his early moves. Turk’s predecessors have all upheld the dominant UN discourse…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Irwin Arieff
- • December 19, 2022
Early and often during his 2016 run for the presidency, Donald Trump vowed to pull Washington out of the Iran nuclear agreement the moment he arrived at the White House. The pact, brokered the year before by Barack Obama,…
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • December 14, 2022
Over the last few months, there has been a lot of loose talk from President Joseph Biden and others comparing the Ukrainian crisis with the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Lately, that talk has died away. There may be many…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War, WORLDVIEWS
- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
- • November 30, 2022
The decision at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to establish a fund to assist developing countries address loss and damage from the adverse impacts of climate change was a momentous signal of hope for humanity and the planet. The…
- Categories: Climate Change, SDGs, WORLDVIEWS
- Tapio Kanninen  and Heikki Talvitie
- • November 21, 2022
Globalization, with its pros and cons, is broken. The world is troubled by local and regional crises, and attempts to solve them are dividing countries, both small and large, in a way that prevents a common will from emerging…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, WORLDVIEWS
- Alan Doss
- • November 14, 2022
In September, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda took their allegations against each other over the resurgence of conflict in the eastern Congo to the United Nations General Assembly. I recall vividly similar claims…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Susana Malcorra
- • November 7, 2022
The deterioration of women’s rights across the world is enabling more gender-based violence. Even those who strive to defend and even expand their privileges at the exclusion of others recognize that half the global population suffers inequalities and injustice….
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Natalie Samarasinghe
- • October 27, 2022
“The United Nations is dead,” said the Catholic Herald in 1947, two years after the UN was founded. Reports of its demise are perennial, but they seem to have reached a crescendo this year, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Dan Becker
- • October 25, 2022
As I left the talk on “The Future of the United Nations,” given at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel by United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, I found myself disoriented, slipping into a Hitchcockian vertigo triggered by witnessing opportunities missed and…
- Categories: UN Diplomats, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • October 11, 2022
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres started out wobbly on the Ukrainian crisis. In the days leading up to the Feb. 24 Russian attack on Ukraine, he remained on the sidelines. He was apparently unconvinced that the Russians would invade…
- Categories: General Assembly, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War, WORLDVIEWS
- Chris Gunness  and Damian Lilly
- • September 13, 2022
The United Nations General Assembly will soon make a decision that will affect the lives of 55 million people in Myanmar and could influence the fate of their nation as it stands at a crucial crossroad. This week, as…
- Categories: General Assembly, Myanmar, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
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