Paula Donovan
- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • March 24, 2021

Unless a strong candidate backed by an influential member state comes forward soon, it looks unlikely that Secretary-General António Guterres will be denied a second term and that a woman could be elected to succeed him, starting in 2022….
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 23, 2016

When a tough independent report sharply criticized the United Nations in December for its bungled attempts to cover up, or at least ignore, the sexual abuse of children by peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic in recent years,…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Diplomats, UN Special Envoys
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 6, 2015

The uproar over accusations that French soldiers assigned to peacekeeping had sexually abused about a dozen boys in the Central African Republic from late 2013 through mid-2014 has shifted focus from the apparent behavior of the soldiers to the…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, UN Agencies
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 16, 2015

A report commissioned by the United Nations but never made public — which studied sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers — has been released online by AIDS-Free World, a nonprofit organization founded by two former UN officials,…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Danielle M. Bennett
- • April 23, 2014

It has been 33 years since the first reports of HIV/AIDS surfaced, and the pandemic, which has never been found to be racial, ethnic or gender specific among the population, is now affecting women the most. They account for…
- Categories: Caribbean, Health and Population, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 15, 2014

In an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Michel Sidibé, the executive director of UNAIDS, the organization called AIDS-Free World wants answers to questions about how the UN will deal with Nigeria after the adoption of…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights