Jane Holl Lute
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 21, 2021
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Jane Holl Lute is in high demand. In 2020, on top of her two high-level United Nations jobs, the American diplomat has juggled other numerous executive roles on corporate and/or nonprofit boards, earning more than $900,000, according to public…
- Categories: Gender Violence, UN Diplomats
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 24, 2021
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The fourth day of the United Nations General Assembly debate soldiered on, with pointed speeches by, among others, the Caribbean island nation of Barbados, whose prime minister, Mia Amor Mottley, asked the General Assembly Hall, “How many crises and…
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, Health and Population, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Sabrina White  and Fred Carver
- • May 12, 2021
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LONDON — On taking his oath of office in December 2016, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres listed four priorities for his new job, the first combating sexual exploitation and sexual abuse across the UN system. In contrast, Guterres’s recent…
- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 24, 2019
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Anywhere from the capital of Nicosia, day and night, Greek Cypriots can see a giant flag painted into the mountains in the north, in a separate region that calls itself the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It is an…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 21, 2018
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The newest person to venture into kick-starting talks between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots on the long-divided island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean is Jane Holl Lute. She is an American with a military and national-security background…
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- Opinion by Adriana Erthal Abdenur
- • December 4, 2017
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There is no denying that sexual exploitation and abuse has acquired greater urgency within the context of United Nations peace operations. Although the UN launched its zero tolerance policy in 2003, a recent report tallied some two thousand accusations…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, OPINIONS, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 24, 2017
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It is not surprising that António Guterres, the first United Nations secretary-general to be rooted in a life of politics and the first to have been a head of government, would look for a political strategy to address one…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2017
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The United Nations’ top coordinator of a drive to end sexual exploitation and abuse in and around peacekeeping missions says the organization cannot succeed without more political support from member nations and cooperation from independent, civilian humanitarian and development…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Refugees, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 21, 2017
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Haunted by accumulating reports of sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls by United Nations peacekeepers and others attached to UN missions around the world, Secretary-General António Guterres is taking the bold, unprecedented step of asking all governments…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 23, 2016
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It has been almost a year since a sweeping assessment of United Nations peacekeeping operations by experts recommended significant changes from top to bottom: a reformed hierarchy in New York and greater coordination and discipline among military contingents in…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, Women
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- Benjamin Foldy
- • January 14, 2014
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With the appointment of Jane Holl Lute, an American, as his special adviser for relocating the residents of Camp Hurriya, located outside Baghdad in Iraq, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is showing a willingness to take major steps toward…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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