Jean-Pierre Lacroix
- Allison Lecce
- • June 5, 2020
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Starting in June, a summary of the most important news on the United Nations’ work in New York City and across the world will be highlighted weekly. The news will be drawn from the UN spokesperson’s media briefings, which are …
- Categories: This Week @UN
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 26, 2020
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The world of diplomacy has toyed with the concept of feminist foreign policies for years, raising some support and not a few snickers from dissenters. A new campaign led by women with strong professional qualifications and global experience in more …
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, Women
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- Susan Manuel
- • May 5, 2020
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Covid-19 has forced educators from preschools to universities to create digital classrooms overnight. But at least one global community has been using e-learning for more than a decade. Tens of thousands of United Nations peacekeepers from Chile to Bangladesh to …
- Categories: Covid-19, UN Peacekeeping
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- Rhona Scullion
- • October 29, 2018
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In the early morning of Tuesday, April 3, 2018, a temporary United Nations peacekeeping base in the village of Tagbara, in the Central African Republic, was attacked by rebel militia groups. One peacekeeper was killed and 11 others were injured …
- Categories: Africa, ICC, UN Peacekeeping
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 20, 2017
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Considerable restructuring of the peacekeeping, political affairs and peace-building departments of the United Nations is being proposed by Secretary-General António Guterres as he continues to embark on reforming the world body, which contends with increasingly complex crises and conflicts each year. In …
- Categories: General Assembly, Geopolitics, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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