Felice Gaer

Trump’s Nominee Lost the UN Migration Agency Vote. Is It a Signal?

Barbara Crossette
• July 2, 2018

The unexpected, decisive rejection of the Trump administration’s candidate to head the premier United Nations agency for resettling refugees and other migrants appears to be a warning. Which is that other nations are not prepared to indefinitely defer to…

Categories: Geopolitics, Migration, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

NIKKI HALEY WATCH

As Expected, the US Quits the UN Human Rights Council

Barbara Crossette
• June 19, 2018

In a long-expected decision, the United States announced it was withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, the world body’s primary organ for promoting and protecting the rights of people worldwide. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and…

Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

With Trump’s Human-Rights Policies, Religious ‘Values’ Take Priority

Barbara Crossette
• June 7, 2018

For almost three centuries, through street protests, court battles and a civil war, the United States has sporadically but steadily advanced and expanded human-rights protections and commitments in domestic and foreign policies. Now Donald Trump and the most conservative,…

Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Reform Eludes the Human Rights Council as Bolton Returns to the Scene

Barbara Crossette
• April 1, 2018

The 2018 winter session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was marked more by what didn’t happen than what did. There was still no official announcement in Geneva from the Trump administration about whether the United States would leave…

Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

GEOPOLITICS

Can António Guterres Fend Off Trump’s War on the UN?

Dulcie Leimbach
• April 10, 2017

When António Guterres was chosen by the United Nations Security Council in October to become the next leader of the UN, neither he nor anyone else could have predicted precisely who would be commanding the Oval Office of the…

Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

A Top Candidate Is Sidelined for the Post of UN Expert on Torture

Dali ten Hove
• September 4, 2016

The United Nations Human Rights Council will soon choose five new experts to monitor various human-rights topics, with nominees put forth by the council’s president. One top candidate, on torture, has stirred up controversy, and recently, his candidacy was…