Haiti
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 6, 2015
Almost five years after a rampaging cholera epidemic coursed through the Artibonite River region of Haiti and moved rapidly around the country, the United Nations, which acknowledges that a deadly strain of the disease originated in or around a…
- Categories: UN Agencies, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 15, 2015
More than five years have passed since the heart of Haiti was crushed by a cataclysmic earthquake that killed at least 230,000 people, only to be followed by an outbreak of cholera later that year that has left about…
- Categories: Caribbean, Health and Population, UN Peacekeeping
- Rosa Freedman
- • May 29, 2015
BIRMINGHAM, England — Today is International Day of United Nations Peacekeeping — a day to acknowledge and celebrate the hundreds of thousands of men and women who work in UN peace missions across the world. Despite not being mentioned…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Rosa Freedman
- • April 20, 2015
In September 2014, four United Nations human-rights experts wrote to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon alleging that the UN had violated human rights through the cholera epidemic in Haiti, which broke out in October 2010. This is the first time that…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Kathie Klarreich
- • January 20, 2015
On Jan. 23, the members of the United Nations Security Council will head to Haiti. It’s safe to assume that they will focus on the political crisis: because parliamentary elections were not held by Haiti’s legislative deadline, the…
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 5, 2013
The Philippines has named its first woman to a command post in a United Nations peacekeeping mission. Capt. Luzviminda Camacho, who was also the first woman to command a Filipino Navy ship, will lead the Filipino peacekeeping contingent deployed…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 21, 2012
One of the most interesting developments in the Security Council’s work in the past decades is the increasing frequency and immediacy of “road trips” ambassadors are taking to the most problematic places on their agenda. Recent delegations have gone…
- Categories: Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 19, 2011
The Security Council extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known as Minustah, for another year, to Oct. 15, 2012, and agreed to reduce the number of troops there by 2,500 in a unanimously adopted resolution….
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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