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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 13, 2017
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António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, said the top two problems he would highlight the most at the opening session of the General Assembly next week were Myanmar’s rapidly unfolding humanitarian disaster and North Korea’s nuclear-weapons provocations….
- Categories: Secretary-General
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 30, 2017
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“Allow me to be blunt,” António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, told his audience to an uneasy laugh. “Our world is in a mess.” Although Guterres could have been speaking to any audience anywhere, he was addressing a crowd…
- Categories: Climate Change, Geopolitics, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • May 20, 2017
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If Nikki Haley is dressing for attention, honestly, it would be hard to fault her. One of the few women named to President Trump’s administration, Haley, a former governor of South Carolina who is the ambassador to the United…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Torild Skard
- • April 23, 2017
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Hillary Clinton did not make it to the top, but Theresa May, the British prime minister, and Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, did. Since Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world’s first female prime minister, in Sri Lanka in 1960, one-hundred…
- Categories: Governance, Women
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- Joanne Myers
- • April 1, 2017
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From Asia and Africa to Europe and the Americas, women remain important forces of change as government leaders in the modern era. Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister after its independence, was one of the…
- Categories: BOOKS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2016
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Government leaders from around the world are gathering in New York for the opening on Tuesday of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, an event haunted by momentous crises demanding undivided attention and action from all member…
- Categories: General Assembly, Migration, Refugees, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 1, 2016
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The second crop of campaigners making a pitch to replace Ban Ki-moon in January is now being assembled, and it looks like the first declared candidate on the list may well shake up the race. She is Susana Malcorra,…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Fiona Curtin, Thomas G. Weiss and Stephen Browne
- • April 3, 2016
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The results of the latest FUNDS survey of global experts, conducted during the winter of 2015-16, contains clear messages about the next United Nations secretary-general: s/he should be a world leader with integrity and political courage who will prioritize…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 3, 2016
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For the first time in United Nations history, officially announced candidates for the secretary-general race, underway this year, will be interviewed publicly in the General Assembly along the lines of a standard democratic election. Mogens Lykketoft, the Assembly president…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 25, 2015
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Pope Francis spread his gospel of not forgetting the poor at the United Nations on Friday morning, where he spoke in his native Spanish to the 193 member delegations and heads of state gathered before him at the General…
- Categories: Development, General Assembly, Poverty, SDGs, Secretary-General, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 23, 2015
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Convinced that after 70 years it is time to choose a woman for the United Nations’ top job of secretary-general, a new movement led by an academic spcialist on the organization has been assembled to formally support the election…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, Women
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