Kelley Currie
- Fiona Shukri
- • July 13, 2020

Six months into her job as the United States ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, Kelley Currie has done little to demonstrate that she can restore American leadership on women’s rights while reporting to an ideologically driven administration known for…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 26, 2020

This year will be an urgent moment for the United Nations and its 193 member countries to renew their commitment ensuring women’s equality in all walks of life. Twenty-five years have passed since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 25, 2020

The naming of Jonathan Moore, a senior United States Foreign Service officer, to the position of Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, signals that in the United Nations’ 75th year, the Trump administration is getting serious. The…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 12, 2019

Just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt met with President Trump in the White House, receiving an effusive reception, Trump nominated Jonathan R. Cohen, the acting permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations, as…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • March 21, 2019

More than six months ago, the American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, announced that she was leaving her post. Following her decision, President Trump nominated Heather Nauert to be her successor. Then the administration tarried, never submitted…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 1, 2019

Kelley Currie, an ambassador who represents the United States on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is the alternate representative of the US to the General Assembly, is leaving her post at the US mission…
- Categories: General Assembly, GOINGS-ON, US-UN Relations
- Kacie Candela
- • May 28, 2018

From the start, it was a closely watched contest pitting Germany, Belgium and Israel against one another for their regional bloc’s two seats in the next term on the United Nations Security Council. Israel has never held a seat on…
- Categories: General Assembly, Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council