Asean
- Damilola Banjo
- • August 4, 2022
Myanmar’s military junta has extended its state of emergency by six months, a year and a half after it overthrew the democratically elected government in a February 2021 coup. The ruling was announced on Aug. 1, the same day…
- Categories: Asia, Security Council Presidency
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 24, 2022
This week, we focus on two crises in Africa: never-ending deadly setbacks of peacekeeping and the humanitarian needs on the continent. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 26, 2021
Noeleen Heyzer, an expert in conflict resolution, economic development and women’s rights, has been named the next United Nations special envoy for Myanmar/Burma. Heyzer, from Singapore, was the first women to head the UN Economic and Social Commission for…
- Categories: Asia, Myanmar, Secretary-General, UN Diplomats
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 7, 2021
Noeleen Heyzer not only saved Unifem, the precursor of UN Women, from financial collapse but also turned the small grant-making agency into a powerful policy tool for boldly addressing the crushing economic and social disadvantages that silence women worldwide….
- Categories: Asia, BOOKS, Gender Violence
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 13, 2021
From small villages to city offices, an open rebellion is steadily spreading in Burma, drawing together citizens outraged by the Feb. 1 coup that overturned a national election and crushed a popular democracy. Pro-democracy advocates inside Burma and abroad…
- Categories: Myanmar, Security Council
- 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
- Ian Martin  and Charles Petrie
- • April 24, 2021
This weekend, Asean will be deliberating on possible courses of action regarding Myanmar. Across the country, brave people, many of them children, are being murdered daily; health services are ceasing to function in the middle of a pandemic; the…
- Categories: Asia, Myanmar, WORLDVIEWS
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • April 5, 2021
When Vietnam started its term as an elected member of the United Nations Security Council in January 2020, it also had to take on the role of the monthly rotating president. Back then, it sold itself as a bridge…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Myanmar, Security Council Presidency
- Noeleen Heyzer
- • March 9, 2021
SINGAPORE — The situation in Myanmar is growing more violent and polarized. If the situation continues without urgent intervention, the safety and security of civilians will deteriorate rapidly and a window for dialogue between the military and Daw Aung…
- Categories: Myanmar, Responsibility to Protect, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 11, 2020
A United Nations convoy was shot at in Ethiopia’s Tigray region; Southeast Asia’s progress on the women, peace and security agenda; the United States brokers a deal with Morocco in exchange for loss of Western Sahara’s sovereignty. You’re reading…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Governance, Health and Population, This Week @UN
- Noeleen Heyzer
- • December 8, 2020
SINGAPORE — With two Asean members, Vietnam and Indonesia, currently sitting in the United Nations Security Council, the region has advanced Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. This is the first global framework that addresses the changing nature…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Noeleen Heyzer
- • November 10, 2019
At the 33d summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Singapore last year, the issue of Myanmar’s Rakhine/Rohingya crisis was high on the agenda. The chairman’s closing statement expressed the group’s readiness to support Myanmar in repatriating…
- Categories: Asia, Refugees, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 19, 2014
The surprising move in 2010 by a repressive Burmese military regime to begin ceding power to the nation’s people was just the beginning of a tangled story. The new democracy held its first credible election less than two years…
- Categories: Asia, Development, Myanmar
- Jayantha Dhanapala
- • January 17, 2013
KANDY, Sri Lanka — As the focus of global political and economic power shifts to the Asia-Pacific region and the United States feels compelled to pivot its strategic forces from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the relationship among major…
- Categories: Asia, International Justice, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 2, 2013
It took a committed president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, and a Filipino Congress concerned about rising maternal mortality and continuing population growth amid widespread poverty, to overcome strong opposition from the Roman Catholic church and make contraception…
- Categories: Asia, Health and Population, Women
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