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- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 4, 2020
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Covid-19 and its vaccine get their own special session; steps to select the next United Nations leader must begin; pressure builds on the United States to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Governance, Health and Population, This Week @UN
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 6, 2020
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Across the world, the rise of nationalist leaders has prompted fears that democracy and international cooperation are endangered. Now the public health systems of many countries are also being menaced by the politics of authoritarianism in the Covid-19 pandemic…
- Categories: Covid-19
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 29, 2020
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Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis, the reputation of the agency has been damaged far less than…
- Categories: Covid-19, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 27, 2020
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From the start, the diplomats leading the negotiations on the new political declaration for the United Nations’ women’s rights conference in March wanted to keep it short and sweet. That meant five pages maximum, one diplomat told PassBlue before…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, US-UN Relations, Women
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