Kurt Waldheim
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • January 3, 2021
Brian Urquhart, who spent most of his adult life in service to the United Nations, died on Saturday, Jan. 2, at his home in Tyringham, Mass., in the Berkshires, where he retired after serving as one of the most notable…
- Categories: UN Diplomats
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • May 8, 2019
Sir Brian Urquhart has celebrated his 100th birthday this year. This is an eventful moment. Sir Brian is one of the most notable figures in the history of the United Nations. Urquhart has spent most of his entire life…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • December 22, 2017
As its people of the year, Time magazine recently named the Silence Breakers — people who have spoken against sexual harassment and launched the hashtag #MeToo into an international phenomenon with more than seven million hits on social media….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, UN Diplomats, Women
- Helmut Volger
- • July 1, 2015
BERLIN — If you take a close look at the public schedule of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, it becomes evident that he travels a lot to member states, even more than his charismatic and most active predecessor Kofi…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 17, 2014
There have been eight secretaries-general of the United Nations in the 68 years since the first of them, Trygve Lie of Norway, took on this unique global position. All eight — all men — have been very different in…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Kishore Mahbubani
- • July 27, 2013
Institutions of global governance are weak by design not default. As Singapore’s permanent representative in New York, I encountered senior members of the American establishment who lamented the United Nations’ poor condition. The explanation was the domination by the…
- Categories: Development, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
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