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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 19, 2022
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Among governments and international organizations worldwide there is a refrain that the catastrophic collapse of Myanmar is a regional problem to be solved primarily by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The 10-member group, known as Asean, remains deeply…
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly, Secretary-General
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 26, 2021
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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
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 13, 2021
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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
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 19, 2021
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For more than a decade, from 2004 to 2017, Vijay Nambiar was a special adviser to United Nations secretaries-general Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, charged with following events in Burma, which the military generals renamed Myanmar in 1989. A…
- Categories: Human Rights, Myanmar
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 23, 2020
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A “permanent” cease-fire is reached in Libya; Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City declines to meet with the president of the UN General Assembly; and what’s going on behind closed-door meetings at the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban…
- Categories: Africa, Disarmament, General Assembly, LGBT, Libya, This Week @UN
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 20, 2020
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A decade after the first democratic reforms began taking shape after long years of harsh military rule in Myanmar, its citizens are preparing to vote in a national election on Nov. 8. It will be an important test for…
- Categories: Asia, Governance, Refugees
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- Opinion by Akila Radhakrishnan
- • January 21, 2020
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Last month, the world was struck by an unusual image — that of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi — standing in court to defend and deny genocide. What was striking was not only what she…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, OPINIONS
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 15, 2019
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Men will dominate the podium during much of the United Nations General Assembly but, as Abigail Adams urged her husband and other founding fathers of the United States in 1776, “remember the ladies.” This is advice that the UN needs…
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2017
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Burma has long been a unique country not only for its otherworldly landscape of pagodas and gold-topped stupas but also, paradoxically, as an isolated country where a nationalistic military has given itself extraordinary constitutional powers. Generals, who have warped…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Human Rights, International Justice
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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
- • August 15, 2016
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Burmese Buddhists attack Muslims and Christians. Indian Hindu zealots kill Muslims and Christians and trash their places of worship. In the Central African Republic, Muslims are driven from the country by Christians. The Middle East and parts of North…
- Categories: Human Rights, Refugees
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- Ninglun Hanghal
- • October 19, 2015
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DELHI — Moving images and stories of tired, anxious refugees crossing into Europe have occupied the home pages of news sites, dominated air time and gone viral online over the last months. The world is facing the biggest refugee…
- Categories: India
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 7, 2014
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He is a young man whose name or exactly where he lives in the Burmese countryside cannot be published because he fears retribution when he returns to Myanmar from a visit to the United Nations headquarters. Speaking in English,…
- Categories: Asia, Governance, Myanmar
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 19, 2014
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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
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 24, 2013
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Burma’s major moves toward liberalization and release from the vise of its military grip signal huge strides toward democracy, yet nothing in this long-isolated, mineral-endowed country is assured. Even as the nation branches out from its dependence on China…
- Categories: Asia, Development, Human Rights
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