Jane Holl Lute Archives

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

September 5, 2018August 21, 2018 by Dulcie Leimbach

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 two … Read more

WORLDVIEWS

The Problem of Peacekeeping Sex Abuse Is Not Going Away

December 5, 2017December 4, 2017 by Adriana Erthal Abdenur

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 guidelines … Read more

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

October 5, 2017September 24, 2017 by Barbara Crossette

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 he … Read more

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

September 21, 2017September 12, 2017 by Barbara Crossette

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 under … Read more

TOPIC: WOMEN

UN Chief Asks All Nations to Sign New Pact Protecting Women

September 2, 2017August 21, 2017 by Barbara Crossette

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 and … Read more

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

July 13, 2016May 23, 2016 by Barbara Crossette

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 outrage … Read more

GOINGS-ON

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

January 14, 2014January 14, 2014 by Benjamin Foldy

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 American … Read more