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Men Can Experience Sexual Violence in War Too

• May 3, 2019

The United Nations Security Council recognized that men and boys are targets of sexual violence both in wartime and in post-conflict settings. Resolution 2467, approved on April 23, calls upon UN member countries to strengthen policies to provide help for victims. As a human-rights lawyer, during the last nine months, I have been documenting cases of conflict-related …

Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS

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Why We Canceled an Event in the US Featuring West African Journalists

Joe Penney

• April 22, 2019

Over the past eight months, we at the Mali-based independent news website Sahelien.com have been working on a documentary film called “The Forgotten Ones,” about the urgent security crisis in Mali’s Mopti region, where civilians, soldiers and United Nations peacekeepers are being increasingly killed. As part of our efforts to engage more directly with …

Africa, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS

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Will the US Stand With Victims of Rape in War?

Noor Sheikh

• April 20, 2019

The annual debate on sexual violence in conflict is about to take place in the United Nations Security Council. As the UN special envoy on sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Patten, has said, this event — on Tuesday, April 23 — presents a critical opportunity to assess progress in the last 10 years, since …

Gender Violence, Health and Population, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS

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Where Will Trump’s Love for Israel Take Us?

Irwin Arieff

• April 17, 2019

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s not really “America First.” It’s “Donald Trump First.” Life would no doubt be safer for the rest of us if his administration based its foreign policy on something larger than one person’s personal fortune(s). But Trump policies have never been famous for their altruism and …

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Saving the Space for Humanitarian Action in Counterterrorism Strategies

Sophie Huvé

• April 11, 2019

The United Nations Security Council just passed yet another resolution on counterterrorism, this one enunciating the steps that UN member states must take to further constrain terrorist groups’ access to financial and economic resources. Resolution 2462 follows a series of resolutions, dating from 1999, on terrorist threats to international peace and security. This resolution, …

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Nagasaki, My Grandfather and Me

Alexandra Bowie

• April 6, 2019

NAGASAKI, Japan — The live fish of the day, taken from a tank that occupied half the restaurant’s floor space, was squid. Its translucent flesh, cut into neat strips draped carefully over its body, twitched gently as the man explored it with his chopsticks. “When you’re done, we’ll cook the rest of it,” the …

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Is It Only Mothers, Not All Women, Who Need Social Safety Nets?

Prakirti Nangia

• April 3, 2019

Social policy in developing countries provides crucial assistance to women, but evidence shows that it is increasingly being limited to women who are mothers. India is a vivid case in point. Associating women with children and families is hardly new in society. What is surprising, however, is how much recent social policy has embraced and …

Gender Violence, Poverty, WORLDVIEWS

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Trump’s Not-So Secret Ill Will Toward the UN

Stephen Schlesinger

• March 21, 2019

More than six months ago, the American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, announced that she was leaving her post. Following her decision, President Trump nominated Heather Nauert to be her successor. Then the administration tarried, never submitted Nauert’s name for Senate approval — and in February abruptly withdrew her nomination. It put …

US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS

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US Abortion Restrictions Violate Women’s Human Rights

Serra Sippel and Akila Radhakrishnan

• March 14, 2019

Every year, 25 million women across the world are forced to obtain unsafe abortions. The United States, through its foreign policy, is deeply complicit in the violation of these women’s right to life and equality under international law. International human-rights frameworks guard against these violations and hold the US and other countries accountable. The International …

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How Will Britain’s Role Change in the UN as Brexit Brews?

Jess Gifkins, Jason Ralph and Samuel Jarvis

• February 26, 2019

LONDON — The looming departure of Britain from the European Union will have a significant effect on the country’s influence as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Even with a possible delay in the final Brexit move, Britain will have to navigate the 15-member Council in a new way that could …

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10 Ways to Push the Climate Change and Conflict Agenda, Despite the Deniers

Adriana Erthal Abdenur

• February 19, 2019

THE HAGUE — It is now well documented that global warming is a multiplier of insecurity and conflict, but holding debates on the topic presents ever-more complex challenges as multilateralism and climate change are increasingly questioned if not dismissed by some of the world’s top leaders and biggest polluting nations. In that light, here …

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Why Developing Nations Send So Many Troops to UN Peace Ops

Thomas G. Weiss and Giovanna Kuele

• February 12, 2019

Africa, Asia and Latin America provide more than 90 percent of military and police personnel to United Nations peace operations and contribute about 15 percent of the budget. China, hardly a legitimate representative of the Global South as the world’s second-largest economy and a permanent member of the Security Council, inflates the budget number because its …

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The Strange Bedfellows of Unesco World Heritage Sites

Jeffrey Laurenti

• February 11, 2019

In the fall — before the caravan, before the firings, before the shutdown, before the wall — Melania Trump concluded her first solo goodwill tour with a photogenic visit to the Great Pyramid and Sphinx of Egypt, the only surviving complex of the seven wonders of the ancient world. “It was a nice opportunity …

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The Elusive Truth About the Death of Dag Hammarskjold and My Father

Hynrich W. Wieschhoff

• February 5, 2019

My clock radio clicked on. The morning news bulletin announced that United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane was missing. It was Sept. 18, 1961. I was 16. Over the next hours, my mother and sisters and I learned that Mr. Hammarskjöld, accompanied by Dad and 14 others, had flown from Leopoldville, in the Congo, …

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The UN’s Gender Parity Goals: The Backlash Begins

Anne Marie Goetz and Paige Arthur

• January 23, 2019

One year into the United Nations’ new strategy for gender parity among staff members at all levels, a gendered backlash has emerged, even as parity has been achieved at the highest echelons of the world body. Political will from UN leaders beyond the secretary-general and member states is needed to ensure that where the …