Joseph Chamie

The Public-Relations Industry Grabs a Foothold in the UN

• July 14, 2021

As the final round of the Generation Equality Forum was about to open in Paris in late June, some reporters, including from PassBlue, were directed by a few United Nations agencies most involved in the event, to ask their questions to public-relations companies. Knowledgeable communications specialists in the UN system were “too busy,” reporters …

Journalists, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Careers

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TOPIC: INDIA

India to the UN Security Council: There Will Be No Alliances

Barbara Crossette

• August 2, 2020

With five months to go before India takes its elected seat on the Security Council for 2021-2022, the country’s foreign minister says it will stay true to its founding tradition of nonalignment and not take sides with any big power. “Nonalignment was a term of a particular era and geopolitical landscape,” the minister, Subrahmanyam …

India, Security Council

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For Census-Takers Worldwide, 2020 Could Be a Rough Year

Barbara Crossette

• December 21, 2019

For more than a week, protesters of all faiths have been marching by the hundreds of thousands on the streets of many Indian cities and towns to condemn a divisive new citizenship law targeting Muslims across the South Asian region. The trouble had been brewing for months, after the Hindu nationalist government of Prime …

Development, Refugees, SDGs

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What to Expect at the UN’s First Migration and Refugee Summit Meeting

Dulcie Leimbach

• September 17, 2016

How do you solve the refugee and migrant crisis? At the United Nations, which has by default inherited the pressing problem of the biggest movement of people from their homes since the end of World War II, you hold meetings, conferences, panel discussions, produce “outcome documents,” give speeches, promise to do more and weep, …

Migration, Refugees

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Finding True Power for Women and Girls: The UN Goals’ Toughest Task

Barbara Crossette

• October 27, 2015

Challenged by the staggering agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to abolish most of the world’s ills within 15 years, research organizations, advocacy groups and objective demographers had begun to do the math well before the goals were adopted globally in September 2015. Success or failure rests on complex equations with interlinked or …

Africa, Asia, Education, SDGs, Women

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Freed From Extreme Poverty, but Left Out of the Middle Class

Barbara Crossette

• August 3, 2015

When the final assessment of what the Millennium Development Goals achieved was released on July 6, the United Nations said confidently that more than 1 billion people had been lifted from poverty since 1990, the baseline year for setting the goals, which were then monitored from 2000 to 2015. But where did these poor …

Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America, Poverty

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Scrutinizing Millennium Goal Claims as 2015 Looms

Barbara Crossette

• April 16, 2012

In early March, a report from Unicef and the World Health Organization proclaimed proudly that the world had not only met but also surpassed the Millennium Development Goals target of reducing by half the number of people without access to safe drinking water. The agencies said that 89 percent of the global population — …