Jane Holl Lute

From Tiny Barbados, a Scolding to the World: ‘We Have Not Moved the Needle!’

• September 24, 2021

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 natural disasters need to hit before we see that old conventions of aid mean that …

Climate and Environment, General Assembly, Health and Population, UNGA76, US-UN Relations

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WORLDVIEWS

Is Combating Sexual Abuse in the UN Now a Low Priority for Guterres?

Sabrina White and Fred Carver

• May 12, 2021

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 vision statement presented to the UN’s 193 member states as part of his candidacy for …

Gender Violence, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS

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GEOPOLITICS

The Moment to End Turkey’s Other War, in Cyprus, Is Fading Fast

Stéphanie Fillion

• October 24, 2019

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 area that is recognized only by Turkey and isolated internationally. From the Greek side of …

Geopolitics, Secretary-General, Syria

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Can Jane Holl Lute, a New UN Envoy, Work a Miracle on Cyprus?

Dulcie Leimbach

• August 21, 2018

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 who has been assigned the task by the United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres. Since the …

Nikki Haley Watch, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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WORLDVIEWS

The Problem of Peacekeeping Sex Abuse Is Not Going Away

Adriana Erthal Abdenur

• December 4, 2017

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 between 2005 and 2017 in peacekeeping settings, which underscores how harmful ineffective policies and specific …

Africa, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS

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Political Will: The Missing Link to Ending Sex Abuse in UN Peacekeeping

Barbara Crossette

• September 24, 2017

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 of the UN’s most self-inflicted wounds: persistent sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping missions. When …

Africa, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping

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UNGA72

Stopping Sex Abuse in UN Peacekeeping: Guterres’s Direct Call for Political Support

Barbara Crossette

• September 12, 2017

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 agencies working with the UN. Jane Holl Lute, the special coordinator with the rank of …

Gender Violence, Refugees, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, UNGA72

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TOPIC: WOMEN

UN Chief Asks All Nations to Sign New Pact Protecting Women

Barbara Crossette

• August 21, 2017

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 to sign a compact pledging to prevent and stop these violations. The compact is voluntary …

Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, Women

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Fixing UN Peacekeeping Operations: The World’s Most Complicated Army

Barbara Crossette

• May 23, 2016

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 ever-more dangerous missions around the world. Few of their substantive ideas have been adopted. As …

Africa, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, Women

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GOINGS-ON

Jane Holl Lute, US Security Expert, Is Now UN Adviser on Iranian Exiles

Benjamin Foldy

• January 14, 2014

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 resolving a situation that has become an increasingly sore point for the Iraqi, Iranian and …