Covid-19
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 5, 2023
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This week, for World Press Freedom Day, the UN spotlighted the growing dangers — including murder — journalists face worldwide. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press …
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- Opinion by Angela Kane and Jaime Yassif
- • July 26, 2022
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The war in Ukraine has caused severe disruptions to regional and global security, including raising concerns about the potential use of unconventional weapons. Not least of these concerns is the dangerous Russian disinformation campaign alleging biological weapons development in Ukraine, which …
- Categories: Disarmament, Health and Population, OPINIONS
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • January 7, 2022
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Violence erupts in Kazakhstan; Sudan’s prime minister resigns; Norway takes the presidency of the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting …
- Categories: This Week @UN
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • December 3, 2021
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Man wields shotgun in front of the UN headquarters; Omicron variant leads to ostracizing southern Africa; French forces shoot protesters in Niger. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered …
- Categories: This Week @UN
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 26, 2021
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UN envoy for Libya resigns; older women’s rights forgotten by the General Assembly; UN staff’s dependents to leave Ethiopia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Libya, This Week @UN, UN Special Envoys
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • September 22, 2021
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The second day of world leaders’ speeches delivered at the United Nations General Assembly continued on Sept. 22, after the heavily reported appearance of United States President Joe Biden at the fabled rostrum in the Assembly Hall; a last-minute video …
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Human Rights, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 26, 2021
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REYKJAVIK — Iceland is reportedly one of the most gender-equal societies in the world, but during a visit to the country in July, it was not immediately obvious how this progress plays out in everyday life. The clearest sign came …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 25, 2021
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Rafael Grossi of the IAEA on Iran, gender bias and diplomacy; nuke-weapons countries just keep spending billions; European peacekeepers attacked in Gao, Mali. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is …
- Categories: Africa, LGBT, Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 22, 2020
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Jeffrey Laurenti, an American writer who specializes on the United Nations and international affairs, is a contributor to PassBlue. He was in Italy in early March when a cascade of travel restrictions were enacted in Europe and the United States, …
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 20, 2020
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Many African governments, often insisting that all cases of coronavirus were imported from outside the continent by travelers, are now grappling with evidence of local community transmissions for the first time, according to a March 18 report from the World Health Organization’s …
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Health and Population
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- Dulcie Leimbach and Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 15, 2020
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The coronavirus has officially hit the United Nations at its New York City headquarters. On Thursday, March 12, the first reported case was confirmed by a diplomat with the Philippines mission to the UN, who said that a Filipino colleague …
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Covid-19, Health and Population, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 5, 2020
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Over the past year China’s presence at the United Nations got suddenly noticed. It may be its more outgoing ambassador, Zhang Jun, its lobbying against human rights, its accession to high-level roles or the disengagement of the United States — …
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
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