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Covid-19 Could Shake Up Global Sanctions Regimes, UN Expert Says

Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
• April 20, 2020

During the last week of March, Hilal Elver, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, was one of three high-level UN representatives to call for an easing of some sanctions to help alleviate the impact of…

Categories: Covid-19, Secretary-General, Security Council

BOOKS

In a World of Evolving UN Sanctions, an Emphasis on the Humanitarian Effects

Barbara Crossette
• January 13, 2018

Debates over how to deal with issues like North Korea’s nuclear weapons or the reliability of Iran to adhere to its role in a multiparty nuclear deal have brought questions about the value, design and human effects of sanctions…

Categories: BOOKS, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council

GEOPOLITICS

UN Is Examining Its Security Policies After Murders in Congo

Dulcie Leimbach
• May 21, 2017

A board of inquiry looking into major gaps or flaws in United Nations security policies that might have contributed to the murders of two UN experts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was set up May 1, according…

Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, Security Council

Skeptics Still Question the Status of the UN’s $54 Billion Pension Fund

Susan Manuel
• September 6, 2016

Twenty months after the staff union accused management of the United Nations’ $54.5 billion pension fund of “massive fraud,” controversy over its structure and performance remains on a low boil. While the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services dismissed…