Monusco
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 29, 2019
Two years have passed since the shooting murders of Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalán, independent experts working for the United Nations Security Council in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in March 2017. Sharp, a 34-year-old American, and Catalán,…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Mona Ali Khalil
- • November 30, 2018
The recent attack by a militia on the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in which seven peacekeepers were killed, highlighted a question that the Security Council has hesitated to confront for years. What are the consequences when UN peacekeeping…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 29, 2018
United Nations peacekeepers working for the mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were killed by a militia in a jungle in North Kivu Province on Nov. 15, leaving seven soldiers dead: six Malawians and one Tanzanian. Ten…
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations
- Justine Masika Bihamba
- • July 26, 2018
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been placed on the United Nations Security Council agenda for several decades, in one form or another through various peacekeeping missions. The Council regularly meets on the status of the Congo, with the…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 2, 2018
As peacekeepers sweat and toil and risk their lives in some of the world’s most lethal settings — South Sudan, Mali, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo — it is incumbent on the United Nations and its…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
- James Cunliffe
- • January 9, 2018
The 15 deaths and 43 injuries to United Nations troop personnel in the North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in December would not, sadly, have surprised those of us who have served in peace enforcement…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Susan Manuel
- • December 27, 2017
The horrific attack on United Nations peacekeepers from Tanzania in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in early December and the ensuing hours-long battle was a severe blow to one of the UN’s more prized forces, leaving 15 soldiers…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
- Kacie Candela
- • July 14, 2017
Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, is positioning herself as a champion of human rights. But she appears to be highly selective about which countries or regimes she accuses of committing human-rights abuses. At the same…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 21, 2017
A board of inquiry looking into major gaps or flaws in United Nations security policies that might have contributed to the murders of two UN experts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was set up May 1, according…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Julienne Lusenge
- • December 31, 2015
In the developed world, women fought and struggled to gain their rights and eventually created a space in which these rights could be expressed. Violence does indeed occur in the developed world, but it cannot be compared to what…
- Categories: SDGs, WORLDVIEWS
- Gerrit Kurtz
- • August 12, 2015
BERLIN — In December 2013, Jan Eliasson, the United Nations deputy secretary-general, went on a selling spree. In a series of briefings, he presented a new initiative to UN member states and to the rest of the world. In…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Ryan Villarreal
- • April 6, 2014
Last year marked major progress toward finding a peaceful resolution for the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s achingly long conflict, rooted in decades of civil war, regional incursions, ethnic tensions and resource pilfering. Throughout the many years, women have…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 1, 2014
The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations tried to maintain calm in many regions in 2013, but none more so than in Africa. In December alone, it lost numerous peacekeepers in three missions on the continent. By year’s end,…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Navi Pillay
- • November 4, 2013
There is now overwhelming evidence that conflicts exacerbate pre-existing gender discrimination and put women and girls at heightened risk of sexual, physical and psychological violence. One appalling example of this evidence is the report recently to the Human…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
- • June 7, 2013
A global women’s organization with wide experience in peace-building recently brought together scores of prominent women from six African nations to take well-defined steps for dealing with the root causes of the persistent sexual violence occurring in the Democratic Republic of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
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