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A New Year’s Hope: Restoring the Progressive Role of the US at the UN

Jessica Neuwirth

• December 28, 2020

A wave of relief and hope is sweeping across the United Nations, and the world, desperately awaiting the inauguration of Joe Biden and the beginning of the restoration of normalcy. Hopefully, we will quickly see the rebuilding of our country’s leadership and much-needed progress in the UN, as well as in other international forums …

Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS

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At the UN, the US Darkens Women’s Right to Abortion

Dulcie Leimbach

• April 23, 2019

After four weeks of tumultuous negotiations over a resolution that reinforced decades of international efforts to combat sexual violence in conflict and to introduce more legal reassurances and services for victims, the 15-member United Nations Security Council approved a text whose wording had been fought over between the United States and many of its …

Gender Violence, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women

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