Black Sea grain deal
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 17, 2023
This week, we focus on countries with enduring humanitarian disasters, plus big news from the International Criminal Court on Russia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, ICC, Myanmar, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
- Natalie Samarasinghe
- • October 27, 2022
“The United Nations is dead,” said the Catholic Herald in 1947, two years after the UN was founded. Reports of its demise are perennial, but they seem to have reached a crescendo this year, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • October 14, 2022
This week, we celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child amid various restrictions on and violations of girls’ rights globally. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • September 20, 2022
On the first day of the “high-level” week of the United Nations General Assembly, attracting approximately 150 world leaders in person to the world body for the first time since 2019, Secretary-General António Guterres, facing criticism for acting too…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Development, General Assembly, Latin America
- Damilola Banjo
- • September 16, 2022
This week, we focus on the preparations of the annual United Nations General Assembly opening session with world leaders — “high-level week” — from Sept. 20-26 and other stories around the world. The speakers’ list is constantly revising, though…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations