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- Irwin Arieff
- • June 15, 2021
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After four years of wandering lost in the desert, diplomacy is finding its way back to Washington. With Joe Biden in the Oval Office, “America First” is out and “multilateralism,” “cooperation” and “alliance” are no longer dirty words. Washington is …
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • April 26, 2021
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Should the United States acknowledge and openly lament the fact that white supremacy played a significant role in the country’s founding? Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Joe Biden’s pick as the US ambassador to the United Nations, thinks so. So does Biden himself. …
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 31, 2021
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Fulfilling promises that he made in his 2020 election campaign, President Joe Biden restored United States contributions to the United Nations Population Fund on Jan. 28. Through another executive order, he also overturned crippling US aid restrictions worldwide that had …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • January 23, 2021
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The Sahel humanitarian crisis grows; Biden is sworn in as the 46th United States president; the nuclear ban treaty enters into force. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the international organization. The information is …
- Categories: Africa, Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Irwin Arieff
- • January 21, 2021
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Donald Trump may be out, along with his disastrously incompetent foreign policy advisers, but don’t expect them to sit quietly on the sidelines while a new team struggles to clean up the mess they left behind. Just days before Joe …
- Categories: OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Mona Ali Khalil
- • January 14, 2021
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The world watched on Jan. 6, 2021, as thousands of the most extreme supporters of President Donald Trump marched on the United States Capitol after hearing his rallying cry to “fight” and “take back” the country. Inside the Capitol, Vice …
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- Irwin Arieff
- • November 24, 2020
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President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to move quickly once he is in office to reverse Donald Trump’s ill-founded pledge to cut ties to the World Health Organization during a deadly worldwide plague. But it will not be easy for Biden …
- Categories: Health and Population, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 20, 2020
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Africans are fed up with being sidelined in the Security Council; hey, Joe Biden, don’t overlook the UN; a mother of five competes against 12 men in the Burkina Faso presidential election. You are reading This Week @UN, highlighting the most …
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 13, 2020
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Nearly two and a half years after the United States withdrew from the Human Rights Council, China and Russia have just won elected seats in the body. Both countries suffer from human-rights abuses against their own populations. China and Russia …
- Categories: Human Rights, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • September 25, 2020
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Fake news alert: President Donald Trump said something vaguely positive about the United Nations during his speech marking the opening of this year’s General Assembly session. “God bless you all. God bless America. And God bless the United Nations,” Trump …
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75, US-UN Relations
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- Evelyn Leopold
- • September 21, 2020
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President Trump failed to deliver an expected video speech for the United Nations’ 75th anniversary commemoration. Instead, the acting deputy United States ambassador addressed the ceremony live from UN headquarters. From Washington, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced new sanctions against …
- Categories: General Assembly, Nuclear Disarmament, UN75, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Ellen Chesler
- • September 4, 2020
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Twenty-five years ago, the United Nations hosted the largest gathering of women (and more than a few good men) in its 50-year history. Some 17,000 participants — among them, official government delegates, representatives of accredited nongovernmental organizations, international civil servants …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Karim Makdisi
- • September 3, 2020
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On Aug. 28, the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to renew its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, called Unifil, for another year. This unanimity, however, masked what had been a series of heated informal discussions on the nature of …
- Categories: Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Allison Lecce
- • August 22, 2020
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A military coup in Mali; massive protests in Belarus over the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko; more than a million people displaced in Burkina Faso; and the United States takes its next step to extend the Iran arms embargo through the …
- Categories: Africa, Middle East, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Allison Lecce
- • August 15, 2020
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The tremendous fallout from the explosion in Beirut on Aug. 4 continues as the United Nations offers direct aid, including providing a mobile health clinic and vaccines for children, while a new $565 million appeal to help the Lebanese recover …
- Categories: SDGs, This Week @UN
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