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- Damilola Banjo  and Kelechukwu Ogu
- • January 24, 2023
Ambassador Kimihiro Ishikane of Japan says his country’s new defense strategy of increasing its military might reflects the need to change the security architecture based on the current environment in East Asia. Yet Ishikane, who spoke to PassBlue on…
- Categories: Asia, Disarmament, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • December 19, 2022
Early and often during his 2016 run for the presidency, Donald Trump vowed to pull Washington out of the Iran nuclear agreement the moment he arrived at the White House. The pact, brokered the year before by Barack Obama,…
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 16, 2022
This week, opinion seemed divided on the decision to expel Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 2, 2022
This week, we focus on the issues of intensifying violence in the Mideast raised separately by UN special envoys in the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
- Kourosh Ziabari
- • December 1, 2022
The United States wants Iran kicked off the United Nations body mandated since 1946 to empower women and promote gender equality. Through a request to hold a vote in the UN’s Economic and Social Council on Dec. 14, the…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 25, 2022
This week, the focus is on the humanitarian disasters from wars and violence around the world. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 18, 2022
This week, we place the lens on the United Nations itself as the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine surge into the fourth week of war. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- 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
- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • April 13, 2021
In 2010, Maria Victoria (Mavic) Cabrera-Balleza founded an organization to help and advocate for the rights of women and girls globally, but it was her childhood experiences that first politicized her. Martial law was declared by the dictator President…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Women
- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 2, 2021
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken dials the UN; Mexico’s dual-personality approach to women’s rights; a deadly French airstrike on a wedding in Mali; two new applicants for secretary-general. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most…
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 29, 2021
Mexico and France are hosting a United Nations forum that aims to accelerate the agenda laid out 26 years ago at the landmark Beijing women’s conference: securing equal rights and equal opportunities for half the population of the world….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 26, 2021
Anti-Asian violence; the closing window for a woman secretary-general; a UN expert threatened by Saudi Arabia; the UN’s humanitarian-aid agency cries out for changes. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The…
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2021
Facing a world unsettled and even shocked by what has happened to the United States in recent years and not sure what to expect of Americans now, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today in clear, reassuring terms to a…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 13, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic anniversary; digitally recruiting women to run for the United Nations’ top job; International Women’s Day, a bit of a downer. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Migration, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 5, 2021
When she arrived in Turtle Bay the morning of Feb. 25, a day after being sworn in as United States ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield didn’t hide the tight timeline she had inherited in her new post,…
- Categories: Security Council Presidency, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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