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- Fiona Shukri
- • August 4, 2020
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As Covid-19 continues to ravage many parts of the world, the effect of the virus in Latin America and the Caribbean region has been particularly devastating. The situation in Haiti, for example, has alarmed international humanitarian groups, as the country …
- Categories: Caribbean, Covid-19, Human Rights
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- Susan A. Bartels
- • January 16, 2020
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In Haiti, a young woman I’ll call Marie became involved with a United Nations peacekeeper from Brazil when she was 14 years old. She became pregnant. He was sent back to Brazil; she was ostracized by her family. In 2017, …
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
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- Susan Manuel
- • November 9, 2017
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The population it serves can misunderstand a United Nations peacekeeping mandate. In the host country, with people’s lives, infrastructure and administrative systems often rendered dysfunctional by conflict, the population expects peacekeepers to restore order, build roads and other essentials, provide …
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Nancy Young
- • December 13, 2015
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PORT-AU-PRINCE — Here in the office of the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux in Haiti’s capital, more than 2,000 letters of cholera victims seeking justice came pouring in to be delivered on Dec. 10 to the headquarters of the United Nations …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Nancy Young
- • October 18, 2015
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HINCHE, Haiti — We were driving back from watching a soccer game here in central Haiti when my friend instinctively rolled up his window. It can get dusty on Haitian country roads, so I rolled up mine, too, even though …
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 15, 2015
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More than five years have passed since the heart of Haiti was crushed by a cataclysmic earthquake that killed at least 230,000 people, only to be followed by an outbreak of cholera later that year that has left about another …
- Categories: Caribbean, Health and Population, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Rosa Freedman
- • April 20, 2015
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In September 2014, four United Nations human-rights experts wrote to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon alleging that the UN had violated human rights through the cholera epidemic in Haiti, which broke out in October 2010. This is the first time that an …
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 1, 2015
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As Colombia’s long civil war appears to be headed toward a hard-sought peaceful settlement, the government may be ready to send soldiers from its huge, well-financed military to participate in peacekeeping missions of the United Nations. Colombian forces’ work in fighting …
- Categories: Caribbean, Child Soldiers, UN Peacekeeping
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- Kathie Klarreich
- • January 20, 2015
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On Jan. 23, the members of the United Nations Security Council will head to Haiti. It’s safe to assume that they will focus on the political crisis: because parliamentary elections were not held by Haiti’s legislative deadline, the current …
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 3, 2013
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Two innovative women from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where violence against women and girls has been harsh and unrelenting through years of lawlessness and civil conflict, came to New York in early March with a message of …
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 21, 2012
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One of the most interesting developments in the Security Council’s work in the past decades is the increasing frequency and immediacy of “road trips” ambassadors are taking to the most problematic places on their agenda. Recent delegations have gone on …
- Categories: Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 19, 2011
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When the Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the woeful Human Rights Commission, one novelty assigned to the new body was the Universal Periodic Review, which would, over a period of four years, methodically assess the rights …
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, Human Rights
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 19, 2011
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The Security Council extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known as Minustah, for another year, to Oct. 15, 2012, and agreed to reduce the number of troops there by 2,500 in a unanimously adopted resolution. The …
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 14, 2011
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Hervé Ladsous, a French diplomat who is the new under secretary-general for United Nations peacekeeping operations, said on Thursday that though he had “no predetermined grand vision” for the agency, he would focus on cutting back on the UN’s presence …
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security
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