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- Clair MacDougall
- • October 10, 2020
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — David Beasley, the head of the World Food Program, this year’s just-announced Nobel Peace Prize winner, has warned that the number of people facing starvation could double next year, to 270 million, if the agency is…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
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- Allison Lecce
- • August 29, 2020
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US asylum seekers pushed back into Mexico in unprecedented numbers amid Covid-19; an investigation into the mysterious work of the richly financed UN counterterrorism operations; chastising India for its support of fossil fuels; and a UN envoy’s assessment of…
- Categories: Climate Change, Middle East, Refugees, SDGs, Terrorism, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • August 25, 2020
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If pundits were to be believed earlier in August, there was a chance for a historic vice-presidential debate in 2020: two women of color facing off for the second-highest position in the United States. The speculation was that Nikki…
- Categories: Covid-19, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Fiona Shukri
- • July 13, 2020
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Six months into her job as the United States ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, Kelley Currie has done little to demonstrate that she can restore American leadership on women’s rights while reporting to an ideologically driven administration known for…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • June 29, 2020
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I never thought I would ever feel sorry for Nikki Haley. But John Bolton, in his infamous new book, “The Room Where It Happened,” is so unrelenting in his snide comments about Haley, President Trump’s first ambassador to the…
- Categories: BOOKS, US Foreign Relations
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- Allison Lecce
- • June 19, 2020
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Starting in June, a summary of the most important news on the United Nations’ work in New York City and worldwide will be highlighted weekly. The news will be drawn from the UN spokesperson’s media briefings, our original reporting…
- Categories: This Week @UN
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 9, 2020
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Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, who has been personally attacked by United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, is not planning to resign from her position, according to her office. Her term does not…
- Categories: Human Rights, US-UN Relations
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- Helmut Volger
- • February 1, 2020
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Everyone familiar with the United Nations knows that its relationship with its key member, the United States, has been and still is subject to far-reaching changes. The periods when the US administration and the Congress make use of the…
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2019
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Once again, 2019 marked incredible upheaval and change across the world, just as 2018 did so universally, signaled by the continued rise in nationalism and revolts by women against repression and violence in their daily lives. Reporting on how…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • December 3, 2019
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Politics and understaffing are the main reasons the United States has still not paid its outstanding dues to the general budget of the United Nations, after much news coverage of the problem in early October. The UN is experiencing…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • November 24, 2019
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Although the first hearings by the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives in the Trump impeachment inquiry may be over, one remarkable aspect stands out: the heroic way the female foreign service officers and policy specialists who testified…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Irwin Arieff
- • November 19, 2019
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“With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace,” is framed as a look back at Nikki Haley’s two years as United States ambassador to the United Nations. It’s also not unreasonable to assume she’s just ticking off…
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • November 18, 2019
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While most countries use their presidency in the United Nations Security Council to visit war zones and pivotal peacekeeping missions around the globe, the United States ambassador, Kelly Knight Craft, is taking her counterparts to her home state of…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 27, 2019
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The World Food Program may be receiving millions of more donations from the Trump administration than under past presidencies, but its management is skidding around amid complaints of sexual harassment, retaliation, abuse of authority and, most startling, rape, according…
- Categories: UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • October 25, 2019
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Tulsi Gabbard, the United States Democratic representative from Hawaii, met with Donald Trump immediately after his election in November 2016. Gabbard became one of the first people to talk to him and his Republican camp at their base in…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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