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UN Security Council Presidency: Two Old Friends Share an Office, Part 2

April 9, 2019

To try to show European unity before a key parliamentary election for the European Union in May, France and Germany teamed up for the United Nations Security Council presidencies in March and April, respectively. After the first stint by France — including a Council trip to Mali and Burkina Faso in the Sahel region …

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Will the UN’s Grand Strategy for the World’s 1.8 Billion Youths Work?

October 25, 2018

by Dali ten Hove

The status of young people around the world is gaining traction at the United Nations. In September, it introduced a strategy called Youth 2030, its end date coinciding with the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN’s main plan for global development. And on Nov. 1, Africa Youth Day, the African Union will appoint an envoy modeled …

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UN Peace Talks on Syria Collectively Failed Women

February 10, 2014

by Maria Butler

This is a difficult time for peace advocates. How can we talk about women participating at the peace table when talk has not translated into action? How can we discuss the implementation of the women, peace and security agenda, first mandated by the United Nations Security Council in 2000, when despite rhetoric, goodwill, ministerial …

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Congolese Women Grow More Demanding of Local Governments

June 7, 2013

by Mavic Cabrera-Balleza

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 the Congo. Declaring that peace in eastern Congo could bring peace to the entire Great Lakes area …

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peace and security agenda

UN Security Council Presidency: Two Old Friends Share an Office, Part 2

Will the UN’s Grand Strategy for the World’s 1.8 Billion Youths Work?

UN Peace Talks on Syria Collectively Failed Women

Congolese Women Grow More Demanding of Local Governments

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