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Trump’s Nominee Lost the UN Migration Agency Vote. Is It a Signal?
by Barbara Crossette • July 2, 2018 • Geopolitics, Migration, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations • 2 Comments

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 the power of the United States when human rights and democratic values are assaulted by...
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NIKKI HALEY WATCH
In Year 2 of Trump Presidency, the US Is Still Eroding Both the UN and Women’s Rights
by Barbara Crossette • May 21, 2018 • Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations •

After a year of bombast and threats by Ambassador Nikki Haley and the ever-evolving Donald Trump administration, the tone appears to be turned down a few notches in the second year of the Trump presidency. But efforts to undermine the United Nations and what it stands for have not stopped, at least for now,...
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Desperate Escape: Why Syrian and Other Refugees Are Rushing to Europe
by Shazia Z. Rafi • September 18, 2015 • Middle East, Migration, Refugees, UN Agencies •

As a relentless remake of the Middle East and North Africa has been taking place, mass displacements of populations have also been occurring. And more chaos is ahead, says the United States Defense Intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, in his assessment that Iraq and Syria may have been permanently torn asunder by war...
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Her Job? To Welcome Boat Migrants Landing at Sicily’s Ports
by Yermi Brenner • May 20, 2014 • Africa, Human Trafficking, Libya, Migration •

SICILY, Italy — Fabiana Giuliani is a legal associate for the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees, but in the last few months she has spent most of her time in ports. Based on the southern island of Sicily, Giuliani, a 31-year-old Italian native who has been working for the UN refugee agency for...
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Missing: A UN Agency for the World’s Aging Population
by Barbara Crossette • January 6, 2014 • Health and Population, UN Agencies •

A few years ago in Ethiopia, a survey conducted for the government in the capital, Addis Ababa, discovered that 88 percent of a growing number of homeless older people as well as two-thirds of those living at home did not have enough to eat. A staggering 93 percent of all city residents over 60...
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Nikki Haley Watch
- Ambassador Haley’s Delusions of Grandeur
  By Irwin Arieff
  September 12, 2018
  There’s a rumor going around that Donald Trump is a master diplomat, a whiz at foreign affairs whose America First policies have taken the …
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- Michael Haley’s Real Estate Deal Involving Family Property
  By Irwin Arieff
  August 26, 2018
  Nikki Haley’s husband, Michael, sold a family property in Lexington, S.C., to a local investment firm in January 2018, removing a major …
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Women
- Hungary Forbids Gender Studies, Enraging Academics
  By Barbara Crossette
  August 14, 2018
  In the doldrums of a European summer, when many universities are mostly closed or short-staffed, the populist Hungarian government of Prime Minister …
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- Michelle Bachelet of Chile Nominated to Be Next UN Rights Commissioner
  By Barbara Crossette
  August 8, 2018
  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has nominated Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile, to become the next UN high …
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Secretary-General
- The UN Is Under Siege, So Where Is the Secretary-General?
  By Thomas G. Weiss
  September 18, 2018
  Was it only two years ago that so many people were elated by the appointment of António Guterres as secretary-general of the United Nations? After …
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- Atrocity Crimes Are Being Committed by All Warring Parties in Yemen: UN Experts
  By Dulcie Leimbach
  August 29, 2018
  The numerous parties to the war in Yemen, which began in 2015, have perpetrated and continue to commit violations of international law by …
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UN Eats
- Art and Lunch, a Felicitous Blend at Rose Hill
  By Irwin Arieff and Deborah Baldwin
  April 27, 2018
  Some people at the United Nations remain in mourning since Matisse shut down in February after serving as the corner cantine to hungry diplomats and …
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Books
- An Eloquent Homage to Syria’s Past, in Case It Has No Future
  By Irwin Arieff
  June 16, 2018
  As one of the world’s oldest areas of human settlement, Syria has seen it all: glory and irrelevance, conflict and calm, dynamism and …
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