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- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 12, 2021
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The US returns to the Human Rights Council; atrocities documented in the Mali conflict; a woman declares her candidacy for UN secretary-general. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization. The…
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • January 8, 2021
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The United States Capitol stormed by pro-Trump rioters; a legendary UN diplomat dies at 101; Islamist jihadists blamed for fatal assault in Niger. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization….
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Libya, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, UN Diplomats, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 4, 2021
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In the early afternoon of May 13, 2020, Joana Mamombe, a member of parliament in Zimbabwe, was seized by security officers after she participated in a pop-up protest, demanding aid for the poor during the Covid pandemic. She and…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 14, 2020
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Ever since the day in 1946 when the first secretary-general of the United Nations, Trygve Lie of Norway, took office, big powers have meddled in how the job is done. Most often, the United States has been the most…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Ben Donaldson
- • November 29, 2020
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LONDON — This time five years ago, Mogens Lykketoft, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, was working with members of the Security Council to create the first open process to appoint the next secretary-general, after the adoption…
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 27, 2020
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The United States embraces diplomacy again; human-rights warnings in Ethiopia; who is the US nominee for UN ambassador? You are reading This Week @UN, highlighting the most important news on the world body. The information is drawn from the UN…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Governance, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Celso Amorim and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- • October 5, 2020
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The world order is no more. Since the beginning of this year, and with greater intensity since March, when the World Health Organization declared the spread of Covid-19 a pandemic, governments and civil societies have been grappling with a…
- Categories: Development, Governance, Health and Population, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Peter Splinter
- • July 29, 2020
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GENEVA — In early June, some family members of victims of police killings in the United States and more than 600 civil society organizations worldwide wrote to the United Nations Human Rights Council to request that it urgently hold a…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Mona Ali Khalil
- • June 9, 2020
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As the world knows, George Floyd, a black man suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a store in Minneapolis, Minn., was killed on May 25 by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. Chauvin had pressed his knee…
- Categories: Covid-19, Human Rights, Secretary-General
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- Allison Lecce
- • June 5, 2020
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Starting in June, a summary of the most important news on the United Nations’ work in New York City and across the world will be highlighted weekly. The news will be drawn from the UN spokesperson’s media briefings, which…
- Categories: This Week @UN
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 3, 2020
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In New York City, protesters swarm the roadway portion of the Brooklyn Bridge, heading from the City Hall area of lower Manhattan into Brooklyn. The crowd stopped incoming traffic, but there was no violence, May 30, 2020. JOHN PENNEY…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • April 20, 2020
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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
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 9, 2020
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Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, who has been personally attacked by United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, is not planning to resign from her position, according to her office. Her term does not…
- Categories: Human Rights, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 4, 2020
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With International Women’s Day, March 8, on the horizon, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres blasted the intractable power of patriarchy, the cause of overwhelming gender injustice and an abuse of historical proportions, in his view. “Just as slavery and…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 27, 2020
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From the start, the diplomats leading the negotiations on the new political declaration for the United Nations’ women’s rights conference in March wanted to keep it short and sweet. That meant five pages maximum, one diplomat told PassBlue before…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, US-UN Relations, Women
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