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- Opinion by Anne Marie Goetz
- • November 25, 2023
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A new independent analysis of how the United Nations should deal with the wide-ranging challenges plaguing Afghanistan is likely to be debated privately in the Security Council on Nov. 28. Although the Taliban are unequivocal in their contempt for human …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Arthur Bassas
- • November 10, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming from the organization while promoting our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. Thirty-three days into the Israel-Hamas war, 11,078 deaths have been …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • November 2, 2023
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China wants to use its monthly rotating presidency in the United Nations Security Council to intensify international calls for a “cease-fire” in the war in Gaza, as Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the UN, said. He spoke to reporters …
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Security Council Presidency
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- Arthur Bassas
- • October 27, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news emanating from the organization as well as promote our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. By donating to PassBlue, a women-led, independent nonprofit news …
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- Dawn Clancy
- • October 26, 2023
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Every year, women’s equal roles in peace talks are highlighted in October at the United Nations. This time, the women, peace and security agenda, as it’s known, got attention outside the UN, near the steps to its main entrance on …
- Categories: Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Arthur Bassas
- • October 13, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news emanating from the organization as well as promote our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. Since Saturday, Oct. 7, the murder spree by …
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, This Week @UN
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • October 11, 2023
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Only 21 of the 192 speakers participating at the annual “high level” week of the United Nations General Assembly in September were women, a far cry from the UN’s gender equality ambitions included in the Sustainable Development Goals. Some of …
- Categories: General Assembly, SDGs, Women
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- Arthur Bassas
- • October 6, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news emanating from the organization as well as promote our own articles that you may have missed, focusing on Haiti, Armenia/Azerbaijan, Cambodia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Disarmament, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Chloé Cosson
- • October 2, 2023
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“I became a diplomat by accident,” Cambodia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Sophea Eat, said. Yet her rise in the world of diplomacy is also a story of survival, hard work and resilience. Eat, 58, sat down with PassBlue at …
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- Arthur Bassas
- • September 29, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming out of the organization as well as promote our own articles, focusing on Armenia and Azerbaijan, the tail end of the UN General Assembly’s big week, Russia’s human …
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- Opinion by Thomas G. Weiss
- • September 26, 2023
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Parachuting into the frenzy of Manhattan’s East Side last week exposed the usual traffic snarls and not-so diplomatic cacophony about the United Nations. The noise included hackneyed pleas to alter the Security Council, often mixed with calls to draft a …
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 25, 2023
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Elina Valtonen, Finland’s foreign affairs minister, told PassBlue that her country joined NATO this year for security reasons, given that Finland has the longest border with Russia in Europe — 830 miles north to south — and Russian troops have …
- Categories: General Assembly, SDGs, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 22, 2023
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Barbados: The Time for Reparative Justice Has Come — Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley said that reparative justice is inevitable for countries that suffered the horrendous consequences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to develop economically. She made this …
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 13, 2023
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The world is wary that the Sustainable Development Goals will not be achieved by their deadline of 2030, but Lachezara Stoeva thinks that people should instead be focusing on how to speed up progress at this crucial midpoint. “Although all …
- Categories: SDGs
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- Opinion by Fergal Mythen
- • September 11, 2023
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There’s an old Irish proverb, “Nà hé lá na gaoithe lá na scolb.” Roughly translated, it means that “the day of the wind is not the day for fixing the thatch” — a common roofing material for homes in rural …