Human Rights Council
- Michelle Langrand
- • March 14, 2023
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Iran’s crackdown on women’s rights protests that erupted in September, and the Taliban recently banning women from working in nongovernmental organizations or from attending university have served as a reminder of how fast women’s rights are sliding back in…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Women
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- Kourosh Ziabari
- • December 1, 2022
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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
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- Damilola Banjo
- • October 28, 2022
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It was UN day this week! Hurray!! We saw schoolchildren around the world celebrate the creation of the organization on Oct. 24, 1945, and we also took a cue from the message of the UN secretary-general. You are reading…
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- Michelle Langrand  and Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 7, 2022
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United Nations members voted on Thursday to strip Russia from its seat at the Human Rights Council, over alleged civilian killings in the region around Kyiv, Ukraine. The proposal, presented at a General Assembly emergency special session in New…
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 3, 2021
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It is not news that morale in the American State Department hit new lows during the Trump administration, under a president who despised and insulted the institutions and people engaged in international affairs. On Oct. 27, however, Secretary of…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 6, 2021
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Jessica Neuwirth, a pivotal force in promoting and supporting the rights of women and girls worldwide, was appointed to the rank of chevalier in the French Legion of Honor by the French government in a ceremony in New York…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
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- Opinion by Peter Splinter
- • October 5, 2021
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GENEVA — It is time for the United Nations Human Rights Council to take climate change much more seriously than it has been and to treat the issue with the urgency, deliberation and action that it demands. The Council…
- Categories: Climate Change, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • November 17, 2020
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President-elect Joe Biden’s first message to fellow world leaders was clear: America is back. But there’s a glaring omission in his foreign policy plan: the United Nations. After four years of the Trump administration’s defunding and leaving UN organizations…
- Categories: UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Harris Gleckman
- • September 2, 2019
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Global governance is slipping away from the United Nations. Whether it is in managing the Internet, where the UN’s governing structure offers only an advisory role for governments; or climate change, where the most exciting actions are now corporate-led…
- Categories: Development, Governance, OPINIONS, SDGs
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 22, 2018
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In the middle of last week, when the Trump administration was still unable to say how it “lost” more than 2,500 children torn from their asylum-seeking parents at the border with Mexico, Nikki Haley, the United States envoy to…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch
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- Opinion by Bertrand Ramcharan
- • January 7, 2018
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The United Nations Charter requires each and every member state to discharge its obligations by faithfully carrying out norms of legally binding international human-rights law. These may be norms of international customary law, those contained in treaties or those…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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