Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • January 3, 2021
Brian Urquhart, who spent most of his adult life in service to the United Nations, died on Saturday, Jan. 2, at his home in Tyringham, Mass., in the Berkshires, where he retired after serving as one of the most notable…
- Categories: UN Diplomats
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • May 8, 2019
Sir Brian Urquhart has celebrated his 100th birthday this year. This is an eventful moment. Sir Brian is one of the most notable figures in the history of the United Nations. Urquhart has spent most of his entire life…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Herman T. Salton
- • March 20, 2018
Bureaucracies do not have a great reputation, and the United Nations bureaucracy is no exception. They are seen as inefficient, cumbersome and rigid, adjectives that are also routinely associated with the UN Secretariat. At best considered a “necessary evil,”…
- Categories: Secretary-General, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • January 30, 2018
From 1970 to 2000, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the predecessor to today’s Human Rights Council, considered in closed meetings and acted on some 80 country situations where there were reliable allegations of gross violations of human…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • December 22, 2017
As its people of the year, Time magazine recently named the Silence Breakers — people who have spoken against sexual harassment and launched the hashtag #MeToo into an international phenomenon with more than seven million hits on social media….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, UN Diplomats, Women
- Helmut Volger
- • July 1, 2015
BERLIN — If you take a close look at the public schedule of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, it becomes evident that he travels a lot to member states, even more than his charismatic and most active predecessor Kofi…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Lucia Mouat
- • January 21, 2015
The post of United Nations secretary-general may or may not be “the world’s most impossible job,” as its first occupant, Trygve Lie, a Norwegian, once described it. In any case, UN members must choose a successor to Secretary-General Ban…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 17, 2014
There have been eight secretaries-general of the United Nations in the 68 years since the first of them, Trygve Lie of Norway, took on this unique global position. All eight — all men — have been very different in…
- Categories: BOOKS
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