Bharatiya Janata Party
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 13, 2022
In India, a country of probing and often rambunctious political debate, another chapter in the “who we are” story has started in the wake of what President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is calling a Russian “war of annihilation” of…
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 2, 2020
With five months to go before India takes its elected seat on the Security Council for 2021-2022, the country’s foreign minister says it will stay true to its founding tradition of nonalignment and not take sides with any big…
- Categories: India, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 9, 2019
It has always been relatively easy for Indian governments from both the political left and right to keep Kashmir from the eyes of the world. At no time has this been more obvious than now. Landlocked, under the guns…
- Categories: Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 15, 2018
Harsh Mander had barely arrived in the remote northeastern Indian state of Assam when he was drawn into a humanitarian horror story years in the making. It was about to get exponentially worse. “The people of Assam are sitting…
- Categories: Human Rights, India
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 17, 2015
Before this year ends, the United Nations will have committed itself and its 193 member governments to a new 15-year development strategy to be hailed as a blueprint for ending poverty, expanding social justice and strengthening equality. Equality for…
- Categories: Development, LGBT, SDGs
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 22, 2014
Not every prime minister, speaking for the first time at the United Nations General Assembly, gets to top that off with a sold-out rally in Madison Square Garden in New York. Narendra Modi, a relatively new face in Indian…
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 9, 2014
India opened the polls on April 7 for another of its uniquely epic elections. In nine stages of staggered voting that stretch into mid-May, allowing election officials, observers and law enforcement teams to move from place to place, 814…
- Categories: Asia, Governance
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 23, 2014
A committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union met in mid-January, as a busy year of elections globally was beginning, to confront the human-rights violations and sometimes lethal abuse suffered by 262 members of national legislatures in countries that often…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Governance, Middle East
THIS WEEK'S MOST POPULAR
UN-SCRIPTED, PASSBLUE'S UN PODCAST SERIES
