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Where Are the Female Leaders at the UN? Gender Bias Persists

Ingvild Bode
  •  August 28, 2017 
The exhibition “HERStory: A Celebration of Leading Women in the United Nations” was held at the Unesco headquarters in Paris this summer, after it made its debut in New York last year. Designed to showcase the contributions of female leaders throughout the UN’s history, it featured such high-profile personalities as Margaret Anstee, the first …

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A New Year at the UN: Getting Serious About Global Disorder?

Barbara Crossette
  •  September 12, 2016 
Government leaders from around the world are gathering in New York for the opening on Tuesday of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, an event haunted by momentous crises demanding undivided attention and action from all member countries. Responses in both the General Assembly (whose powers are limited) and the Security Council …

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Personalities Can’t Be Ignored in Candidacies for UN Secretary-General

Ingvild Bode
  •  August 16, 2016 
What personal qualities are needed to become a successful United Nations secretary-general? The 2016 campaign to select a new leader features many novelties in the UN’s history: an official list of candidates, public job interviews by the General Assembly and informal panel debates in London and New York. Civil society coalitions and the current …

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Men Voting for Men: UN Security Council Holds Its First Straw Poll to Pick a Secretary-General

Dulcie Leimbach
  •  July 21, 2016 
United Nations Secretary General Straw Poll Webcast
The first straw poll to test the support of Security Council members for candidates vying to become the next United Nations secretary-general occurred Thursday morning. The vote took place amid strong interest by global media who report on the world body as well as the dozen candidates, the UN’s 193 member states and people …

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Less Politics and More Transparency: What New Leadership Will Mean for the UN

Barbara Crossette
  •  July 6, 2016 
In a year when people who follow the United Nations are focusing on the election of the next secretary-general, the center of early action in that election has moved for the first time in history from the secretive deliberations of the Security Council to an unprecedented open campaign in the General Assembly, which normally …

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A Woman, a Bombast and a Socialist: The UN and US Elections

Laura E. Kirkpatrick
  •  June 20, 2016 
The major contenders for one of the highest public offices in the world include the first possible female candidate for the position; a slightly aggressive (and that’s what his friends say about him) surprise candidate; and a socialist who’s not really supposed to be there but has garnered enough support to possibly be a …

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New Candidates for Secretary-General Make Their Cases at the UN

Barbara Crossette
  •  June 7, 2016 
The field of nine candidates campaigning formally to become the next United Nations secretary-general grew by two on June 7, when Miroslav Lajcak, Slovakia’s foreign minister, and Susana Malcorra, who holds the same position in Argentina, spoke in public sessions lasting more than two hours each, taking questions from UN member delegates and civil …

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The Field Grows and Shifts in the Race for UN Secretary-General

Barbara Crossette
  •  June 1, 2016 
The second crop of campaigners making a pitch to replace Ban Ki-moon in January is now being assembled, and it looks like the first declared candidate on the list may well shake up the race. She is Susana Malcorra, Argentina’s foreign minister and a well-respected, internationally known former United Nations official. The next round …

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Civil and Polite, Nations Participate in First-Ever UN Security Council Election Hearings

Vesna Jaksic Lowe
  •  May 25, 2016 
Thailand said it had no enemies, while Kazakhstan pointed out it had voluntarily given up the fourth-largest nuclear arsenal in the world more than two decades ago. Sweden emphasized it was militarily nonaligned. Italy, the only Mediterranean candidate, said it could ensure geographic balance because it sits at the crossroads of the east and …

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Another First for Candidates for UN Secretary-General? Tweeting

Laura E. Kirkpatrick
  •  April 19, 2016 
This is not your grandfather’s election cycle. Will this be the year a woman is elected to one of the highest political positions in the world? What’s up with the surprise candidate gaining unexpected momentum? Can any candidate truly blend the need for the best-qualified administration with gender parity? It is unequivocal that this …

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After Corruption Charges, UN Panel Recommends Major Changes to General Assembly Presidency

Dulcie Leimbach
  •  March 29, 2016 
The presidency of the United Nations General Assembly, a ceremonial position filled annually by the organization’s 193 member nations, needs to fling open its doors to basic transparency on its financing and staffing operations, says a new report commissioned by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The office of the presidency of the UN General Assembly …

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A New Plan to Recruit Candidates for UN Secretary-General Emerges

Dulcie Leimbach
  •  March 3, 2016 
For the first time in United Nations history, officially announced candidates for the secretary-general race, underway this year, will be interviewed publicly in the General Assembly along the lines of a standard democratic election. Mogens Lykketoft, the Assembly president and a Dane, is pushing the “unprecedented transparent process,” as he put it, in selecting …

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