Ban Ki-moon
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 12, 2022
Ask anyone if they will expose a crime if they know their careers might be hurt, and they will most likely give an emphatic no. Yet this happens for many whistleblowers around the world, including at the United Nations….
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Agencies, UN Careers
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2022
Nations of the world have taken giant steps in recent decades to build international structures and strengthen institutions to deal with mass human-rights abusers. At almost every stage, Navi Pillay, a South African lawyer, was there, advancing the rights…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
- Ben Donaldson  and Enyseh Teimory
- • July 19, 2022
LONDON — A new United Nations high commissioner for human rights needs to be found, appointed by the General Assembly and be ready to begin work on Sept. 1. Anyone who meets the criteria set out in the UN’s…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Irwin Arieff
- • February 1, 2022
Just as we were looking forward to the new year with hope in our hearts, things have already grown dicey. The chaotic images of the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan still reverberate around the world, continuing to raise big…
- Categories: Secretary-General
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • August 25, 2021
When Guatemala’s Attorney General Consuelo Porras recently removed the anticorruption leader Juan Francisco Sandoval from his post as the special prosecutor against impunity, her action ended the last semblance of prosecutorial independence generated by one of the most successful…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Migration, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 18, 2021
The UN’s leader is sworn in for another term; Myanmar’s rapid instability; elevating the US ambassador’s profile. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue…
- Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 16, 2021
António Guterres soon will be recrowned Secretary-General after Manhattan’s five-member Electoral College, the permanent members of the Security Council, send its recommendation to the General Assembly for a ceremonial vote. In 2016, his election was an unusually transparent process…
- Categories: SDGs, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 9, 2021
It was all over in one crucial week. Barring an unforeseen hitch, António Guterres is the clear winner of a second, five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations, beginning on Jan.1, 2022. This was not a surprise: he…
- Categories: Latin America, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- Dali ten Hove
- • May 3, 2021
The job of United Nations secretary-general is the “most impossible on earth,” as the first postholder, Trygve Lie, famously told his successor, Dag Hammarskjold. Though Lie spoke partly in jest to amuse the assembled reporters, the remark has stuck…
- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 23, 2021
The Joe Biden climate-fest; rape as a weapon of war in Tigray; Burma slides further downhill. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting…
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 6, 2021
Continuing crises in Myanmar and Ethiopia; the US envoy to the UN’s first week; why Britain has held the top humanitarian job for so long; and women’s gains in the African Union. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Ian Martin
- • March 3, 2021
LONDON — Should the world’s top humanitarian official be chosen through a meritocratic selection process open to candidates from any country, or should the choice be restricted to a single nationality and nomination by that government? The answer is…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, WORLDVIEWS
- Irwin Arieff
- • March 2, 2021
Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a memoir due out in June, is done concealing his anger over Donald Trump’s bad behavior on the international stage. The UN has always tried hard to maintain strong ties with the…
- Categories: BOOKS, Nuclear Disarmament, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 27, 2021
The widely shared hopes in 2016 that a woman could finally be elected secretary-general of the United Nations at the end of Ban Ki-moon’s two terms were crushed when the big powers chose a man from a large field…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Women
- Beatrice Lindstrom  and Joey Bui
- • October 30, 2020
Ten years ago this month, Haiti confirmed the arrival of a deadly cholera epidemic that killed more than 10,000 people. The disease — and the United Nations’ response to it — has caused immeasurable harm in Haiti and undermined…
- Categories: Caribbean, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
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