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- Damilola Banjo
- • December 9, 2022
This week, the Taliban carried out their first execution, letting a man shoot the person who allegedly murdered his son. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council, Terrorism, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations
- Remmy Bahati
- • December 5, 2022
President Joseph Biden has invited 49 African national leaders and the head of the African Union to the White House this month for a summit emphasizing America’s “enduring” commitment to the continent and continued collaboration on such global priorities…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dawn Clancy
- • September 21, 2022
On Day 2 of the “high-level” week, featuring many of the world’s heads of state and government, President Joe Biden shared the forum with a diverse roster of speakers, who stood at the rostrum, one by one, stretching from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Latin America, Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War, US Foreign Relations
- Dawn Clancy
- • March 29, 2022
Vladimir Putin could be likened to a Rubik’s cube, a puzzle of a man who remains impossible to fully solve. As he unleashed his “special military operation” five weeks ago, to “de-Nazify” and “demilitarize” Ukraine, President Putin remains an…
- Categories: Peace and Security
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • February 11, 2022
An assassination attempt on Libya’s interim prime minister; investigating the UN’s climate finance apparatus; the Guernica tapestry returns to the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Secretary-General, This Week @UN
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • January 28, 2022
A coup in West Africa; a recap of Biden’s first year at the UN; a US-Russia showdown coming to the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • January 25, 2022
President Joe Biden has brought back an era of diplomatic normalcy to the United Nations in his first year in office. After the often-raucous and unpredictable four years of the Trump administration’s relations with the UN, Biden and his…
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 21, 2021
Joe Biden, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21 for the first time as president of the United States, did not say again to the world that America was back. His message was that it never…
- Categories: General Assembly, UNGA76
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 18, 2021
Vaccine-policy confusion as delegates arrive for UNGA; Gabon’s troops repatriated from a United Nations peacekeeping mission; President Macron of France won’t participate in the UN high-level debate. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • September 9, 2021
The chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has weakened the Biden administration’s campaign to restore multilateralism as the touchstone of United States foreign policy, eroding international support for US global leadership. Incidentally, Biden also came out sounding at times a lot more…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 7, 2021
This year’s United Nations General Assembly could make or break the future of in-person meetings at the gathering in New York City. After a year of carefully negotiating, adapting and crafting health guidelines, UNGA organizers are hoping to avoid…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Latin America, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
- Ellen Tolmie
- • August 9, 2021
Jockeying for Unicef’s next executive director is well underway, after the July 13 announcement by its current head, Henrietta Fore, that she is leaving before the year’s end. She is going because of a family health emergency and well…
- Categories: UN Agencies, WORLDVIEWS
- Irwin Arieff
- • June 15, 2021
After four years of wandering lost in the desert, diplomacy is finding its way back to Washington. With Joe Biden in the Oval Office, “America First” is out and “multilateralism,” “cooperation” and “alliance” are no longer dirty words. Washington…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 21, 2021
Girls at a gated UN school in Gaza being used as a shelter amid the bombing by Israel in its fight against Hamas’s rocket fire. Thousands of families in Gaza have fled their homes since the conflict began on…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 16, 2021
Across seven straight days of sudden, staggering violence between Israel and Hamas and rising death tolls of civilians, all 15 members of the Security Council aired their views publicly at the United Nations on Sunday, after the Council held…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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