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- Dawn Clancy
- • February 23, 2023
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On the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale brutal war in Ukraine, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution demanding that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally” withdraw its military forces from Ukraine; called for a “cessation…
- Categories: General Assembly, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 27, 2023
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This week, we focus on the worsening violence in Haiti and a major firing of a UN official for corruption. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
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- Damilola Banjo  and Kelechukwu Ogu
- • January 24, 2023
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Ambassador Kimihiro Ishikane of Japan says his country’s new defense strategy of increasing its military might reflects the need to change the security architecture based on the current environment in East Asia. Yet Ishikane, who spoke to PassBlue on…
- Categories: Asia, Disarmament, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 22, 2023
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Beatrice Fihn, a 40-year-old Swede, grew up wanting to make a big difference in humanity, but she did not know how she could do that. First, she thought she would “stitch people up” after they suffered an accident or…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Women as Changemakers
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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 11, 2023
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Kimihiro Ishikane, Japan’s permanent representative to the United Nations, expressed frustration with the Security Council’s lack of consensus on North Korea’s unabating missile tests. Ishikane is the monthly rotating president of the Council in January, and he conveyed his…
- Categories: Asia, Security Council Presidency, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Irwin Arieff
- • December 19, 2022
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Early and often during his 2016 run for the presidency, Donald Trump vowed to pull Washington out of the Iran nuclear agreement the moment he arrived at the White House. The pact, brokered the year before by Barack Obama,…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Ukraine-Russia War, US Foreign Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • October 28, 2022
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It was UN day this week! Hurray!! We saw schoolchildren around the world celebrate the creation of the organization on Oct. 24, 1945, and we also took a cue from the message of the UN secretary-general. You are reading…
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • October 1, 2022
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VIENNA — Margot Wallstrom, a former Swedish foreign minister, clinched her reputation in 2014 for boldly coining the concept of the world’s first “feminist foreign policy.” While having left active politics only five years later, in 2019, she remains…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Women
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • September 9, 2022
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VIENNA — Poland and Canada have circulated a draft resolution among members of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, criticizing Russia’s “violent actions against nuclear facilities in Ukraine, including the ongoing presence of Russian forces…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, UN Agencies
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- Opinion by Stephane Bussard
- • August 31, 2022
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After three weeks of negotiations at the United Nations headquarters, the 191 states parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) failed to adopt a final document at the 10th review conference of the NPT, held…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • May 3, 2022
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency expressed “grave concern” recently about the safety at Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant, in Zaporizhzhia, and said that the situation for the Ukrainian personnel working there was “unsustainable.” The plant was captured…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security
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- Opinion by Yasuhiro Ueki
- • April 4, 2022
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Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military attack on Ukraine has not only undermined the basic norms and tenets of the international order based on the United Nations Charter but it has also provoked strategic recalculations of international relations in the…
- Categories: Asia, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 22, 2021
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In 2020, during one of the worst global pandemics in recent history, killing more than three million people that year from the Covid-19 virus, nine nuclear-armed countries spent $72.6 billion on bolstering and modernizing their arsenals, at a rate…
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 2, 2021
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Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a memoir due out in June, is done concealing his anger over Donald Trump’s bad behavior on the international stage. The UN has always tried hard to maintain strong ties with the…
- Categories: BOOKS, Nuclear Disarmament, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • February 21, 2021
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VIENNA — Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, that it will significantly limit inspections of its nuclear facilities as of Feb. 23. Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the Vienna-based agency, traveled…
- Categories: Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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