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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 20, 2023
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This week, we focus on the crises in Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the United Nations intensifies peacekeeping and humanitarian remediation in the first weeks of 2023. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • December 9, 2022
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This week, the Taliban carried out their first execution, letting a man shoot the person who allegedly murdered his son. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council, Terrorism, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • November 14, 2022
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In September, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda took their allegations against each other over the resurgence of conflict in the eastern Congo to the United Nations General Assembly. I recall vividly similar claims and …
- Categories: Africa, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
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- Dawn Clancy
- • November 8, 2022
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Four months ago, Russia was flagged for breaching international aviation law, and the United Nations has yet to replace dozens of grounded Russian-leased aircraft as a result of the violation. The UN’s response to the International Civil Aviation Authority’s warning …
- Categories: Secretary-General, Ukraine-Russia War, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • July 29, 2022
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This week, we focus on the deadly attacks against the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and assaults in Yemen, leading to deaths of children. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 24, 2022
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This week, we focus on two crises in Africa: never-ending deadly setbacks of peacekeeping and the humanitarian needs on the continent. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 3, 2022
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This week, our focus is on the continuing efforts of the United Nations to reduce civilian casualties in different pockets of unrest across the globe. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The …
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- Clair MacDougall and Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
- • March 16, 2022
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- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 4, 2021
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Fighting global corruption; Estonia, run by women; Iran loses its voting rights at the UN; a sex-video scandal, unresolved a year later. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from …
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 9, 2021
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The Myanmar crisis isn’t going away; global bias against older people; Vietnam leads the Security Council; Chadian peacekeepers killed and wounded in Mali. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered …
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • January 18, 2021
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This year, two expansive — and expensive — international peace and security entities will pass a significant milestone. The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the NATO operation in Afghanistan have been deployed for …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, OPINIONS, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 12, 2020
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Iran continues to enrich low-grade uranium; the United Nations finally sent peacekeepers to protect Dr. Denis Mukwege, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, after he received more death threats; and the major General Assembly session of world leaders, starting Sept. 22, …
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Education, General Assembly, Human Rights, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Clair MacDougall
- • September 9, 2020
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Dr. Denis Mukwege sat behind a desk in a sharp suit with a red tie and his eyes framed by thick black glasses, as his image was live-streamed from eastern Congo during a human-rights meeting of the European Parliament in …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Secretary-General
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- Melanne Verveer and Robert Nagel
- • April 8, 2020
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Covid-19 poses major challenges for people and governments around the world and for the United Nations. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a global cease-fire on March 23 in recognition of the pandemic’s potentially devastating effects on …
- Categories: Covid-19, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Ted Folke
- • September 9, 2019
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In 2012, after almost five years as chief of the video unit in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I reached the compulsory UN retirement age of 62 and had to leave. I loved …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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