WORLDVIEWS
- Peter Splinter
- • October 5, 2021
GENEVA — It is time for the United Nations Human Rights Council to take climate change much more seriously than it has been and to treat the issue with the urgency, deliberation and action that it demands. The Council…
- Categories: Climate Change, Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Richard Ponzio  and Joris Larik
- • September 13, 2021
A year ago, as Covid-19 took its toll on countless lives and livelihoods and presented yet another reminder of how global crises inevitably require global cooperation and solutions, world leaders convened virtually to endorse a declaration marking the United…
- Categories: Governance, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Rebecca Barber et al.
- • September 12, 2021
The United Nations General Assembly is due to consider an issue in the coming weeks that will profoundly affect the lives of 55 million people in Myanmar. Its Credentials Committee will debate whether to accept the credentials of the…
- Categories: Myanmar, WORLDVIEWS
- Ellen Tolmie
- • August 9, 2021
Jockeying for Unicef’s next executive director is well underway, after the July 13 announcement by its current head, Henrietta Fore, that she is leaving before the year’s end. She is going because of a family health emergency and well…
- Categories: UN Agencies, WORLDVIEWS
- Chris Gunness
- • July 26, 2021
The battle is on to grab the Myanmar seat at the United Nations in New York City, a hugely significant prize as the junta wages a campaign for diplomatic recognition. Nonrecognition of the regime is crucial right now, because…
- Categories: Myanmar, UN Diplomats, WORLDVIEWS
- Lowell Flanders
- • July 17, 2021
When the market for mortgage-backed securities — derivatives — exploded in 2008, the investment guru Warren Buffet called them “financial weapons of mass destruction.” The crisis was the worst American economic disaster to occur since the Great Depression. In…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Pension Fund, WORLDVIEWS
- Sophie Huvé  and Rebecca Brubaker
- • July 13, 2021
Since 2008, the United Nations Security Council has been integrating part of the women, peace and security agenda into its sanctions regimes — albeit inconsistently and with mixed results. So far, this practice has mostly focused on protecting women…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Anne Marie Goetz  and Joanne Sandler
- • July 8, 2021
UN Women is looking for a new executive director. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a former vice president of South Africa, is stepping down after eight years at the helm. The appointment comes as the Generation Equality Forum in Paris just ended, with…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, UN Agencies, WORLDVIEWS
- Helmut Volger
- • July 4, 2021
BERLIN — When Christoph Heusgen was appointed Germany’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York City in 2017, there were critical comments by foreign policy experts and journalists in our country. They voiced doubts about whether Heusgen, who…
- Categories: Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Richard Ponzio  and Cristina Petcu
- • June 21, 2021
Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change crises, extremist violence and social unrest, the specter of cross-border economic shocks and increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, the UN75 Declaration, adopted by world leaders last September, was an important first…
- Categories: Governance, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 16, 2021
António Guterres soon will be recrowned Secretary-General after Manhattan’s five-member Electoral College, the permanent members of the Security Council, send its recommendation to the General Assembly for a ceremonial vote. In 2016, his election was an unusually transparent process…
- Categories: SDGs, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Anna Samya Sri
- • June 9, 2021
Surely, the reappointment of Guterres is not because there aren’t many women leaders of high calibre that the UN members could have considered seriously for the post. But this year could have initiated the beginning of a new era…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Laila Lutf Al-Thawr
- • June 1, 2021
CAIRO — “They dug a hole in the ground, threw us in and shot at us randomly. I only survived because a body laid on top of me. Al Qaeda has my friends — please help me save them.”…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, WORLDVIEWS
- Franz Baumann
- • May 25, 2021
In September 2016, the German parliament unanimously adopted the Paris Agreement. The government then translated Germany’s commitments under the agreement into a Climate Protection Law, which was approved by the Bundestag in November 2019 with a wide majority, making…
- Categories: Climate Change, WORLDVIEWS
- Damian Lilly
- • May 19, 2021
Since the military coup in Myanmar on Feb. 1, 802 civilians have been killed. The majority of the people who have been killed were peaceful protesters shot by state security forces — the very people that are meant to…
- Categories: Asia, Humanitarian Aid, Myanmar, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
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