Minurso
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 29, 2021
A coup in Khartoum; global carbon emissions revert to pre-Covid levels; a new UN envoy is named for Myanmar. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN…
- Categories: Africa, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Joseph Alfred Grinblat
- • October 27, 2021
It is now 30 years since the United Nations referendum mission for Western Sahara, known as Minurso, was created, and I was one of the original staff members. Starting in 1971, Sahrawi students in Morocco started a movement for…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 22, 2021
The UN boss points to rising global military spending as a source of gendered violence; the UN’s tech envoy, mired in controversy, may be exiting; the Human Rights Council rolls out a multimillion-dollar project with the Philippines. You are…
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • October 21, 2021
As abuses against Sahrawi activists and journalists mount in Western Sahara, 10 United States Republican and Democratic senators are urging the Biden administration to include a human-rights element in the work of the United Nations referendum mission in the…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 26, 2020
An A-to-Z list of Trump’s assaults on the rule of law; reactions to the US-Morocco-Western Sahara news; turmoil in the Central African Republic before elections. Happy Boxing Day! You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 13, 2020
An Afghan midwife saving lives in her country; the UN secretary-general congratulates US president-elect Joe Biden (sort of); a new gender group with a questionable purpose. You are reading This Week @UN, highlighting the most important news on the world…
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Secretary-General, This Week @UN
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 26, 2020
As the United Nations turns 75 years old this month, it is worth noting that its membership has more than tripled — almost quadrupled — since its founding in 1945. From 50 signatories at the San Francisco conference that…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Fatma Medhi
- • November 5, 2019
A stunning policy reversal by the United States regarding Western Sahara occurred last week, but it didn’t make many headlines. What happened? When the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution on Western Sahara, renewing the mandate of…
- Categories: Africa, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 2, 2018
Horst Koehler, a former German president who has been the United Nations special envoy for Western Sahara since last year, is bringing the parties to the longstanding conflict over that region to a roundtable meeting in Geneva soon. Koehler…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 15, 2018
The message was blunt and judgmental as the United States delivered its ultimatum on the future of the United Nations mission in Western Sahara: “MINURSO is a peacekeeping mission that should have finished its job a long time ago….
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Helmut Volger
- • December 28, 2015
For many people in the world, the United Nations is often associated with peacekeeping, one of the most visible activities of the world body in its efforts to maintain international peace and security. Peacekeeping was created in the late…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Johanna Higgs
- • March 5, 2015
NEAR TINDOUF, Algeria — Our goal was to understand the dynamics of women who live in the refugee camps here in the Sahara Desert, where tens of thousands of Sahrawi people reside in tents and mud-brick buildings, having fled…
- Categories: Africa, Refugees, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 10, 2013
The saga of Western Sahara, a disputed territory that has been stuck in limbo in North Africa for decades, will receive its annual nod this month by the United Nations Security Council, but this time actual changes may be…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Refugees, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 16, 2012
Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber, a German diplomat, is the new special envoy to head the United Nations referendum mission in Western Sahara, known as Minurso. The mission was set up in 1991, after a cease-fire was brokered between Morocco and a…
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