Mark Lyall Grant
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 2, 2015
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The Palestinians have deposited copies of the legal instruments to join the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the world’s single permanent judicial body to try war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. If Palestine is accepted as a member …
- Categories: ICC, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 17, 2014
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If there is one anarchic group that every member of the United Nations Security Council currently finds abhorrent it is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which has seized large regions of Iraq this summer, astonishing most of …
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Mirva Lempiainen
- • April 30, 2014
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As increasing numbers of women embark on careers as diplomats, the United Nations headquarters in New York is slowly but surely undergoing a big change in demographics: the female-to-male ratio of diplomats is becoming — dare it be possible — …
- Categories: Security Council, Women
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- Maurizio Guerrero and Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 22, 2014
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The United Nations-led peace talks in Switzerland to begin the laborious discussions to end the war in Syria have officially started, but Syrian women activists who have been demanding to sit at the crucial peace-talks table on Jan. 24 in …
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security, Women