Jeffrey Laurenti
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • February 20, 2020
President Trump has made good on his campaign promises to redefine America’s relationship with the rest of the world — for better or for worse — and the United Nations has in many ways been the epicenter of his…
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 18, 2018
Kofi Annan, the seventh and probably the most popular and widely respected secretary-general the United Nations has ever known, died unexpectedly in Bern, Switzerland, early on Saturday morning, Aug. 18. His death, reportedly from leukemia, followed what initial reports…
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 25, 2018
In the wake of a spate of school shootings in the United States this year, students of high school and college age are forming political campaigns for change as the country moves toward critical legislative elections in November. These…
- Categories: Education, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 31, 2018
David Beasley, the executive director of the World Food Program, based in Rome, posted a prayer at the top of his Twitter page in early January, reading: “My prayer for 2018: Peace. Our path to Zero Hunger begins with…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Nikki Haley Watch, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 1, 2016
The second crop of campaigners making a pitch to replace Ban Ki-moon in January is now being assembled, and it looks like the first declared candidate on the list may well shake up the race. She is Susana Malcorra,…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 23, 2016
When a tough independent report sharply criticized the United Nations in December for its bungled attempts to cover up, or at least ignore, the sexual abuse of children by peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic in recent years,…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Diplomats, UN Special Envoys
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • April 11, 2013
For the first time, the United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution allowing UN troops to go on the offensive in a mission against armed rebels. The combat intervention brigade will operate as part of the UN…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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