Peace and Security
- Damilola Banjo
- • April 28, 2023
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This week, the crises around the world hit a new tipping point. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources….
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- Remmy Bahati
- • December 5, 2022
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President Joseph Biden has invited 49 African national leaders and the head of the African Union to the White House this month for a summit emphasizing America’s “enduring” commitment to the continent and continued collaboration on such global priorities…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • October 21, 2022
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This week, a United Nations agency released a damning report on how plastics are damaging our world and harming the people in it. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
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- Damilola Banjo
- • October 5, 2022
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Naturally enough, Gabon is focusing on Africa as the country leads the United Nations Security Council this month. Gabon’s UN ambassador, Michel Xavier Biang, detailed his country’s plans for the rotating presidency, elaborating on a climate change agenda as…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Security Council Presidency, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 15, 2022
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Despite 100 countries enacting national plans to carry out the global women, peace and security agenda, women remain largely absent from conflict mediation and other peacemaking endeavors across the world. The agenda, cemented in a Security Council resolution approved…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 4, 2021
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In October, the United Nations Security Council diplomats are packing up their suitcases and hopping on an overseas flight to the Sahel region of West Africa to assess the serious challenges that this semiarid strip is countering. It is…
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Latin America, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency, Terrorism
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 12, 2021
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Human-rights advocates around the world are assessing how much lasting damage could still be done to universal human rights after the four-year assault from the Trump administration. Although the Trump years ended with the swearing-in of President Joe Biden…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Samea Shanori and Fiona Shukri
- • March 25, 2020
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Afghan women’s inclusion in the current peace negotiations with the Taliban and the United States has become an international cause célèbre. But calls for participation of Afghan women without methodical, sustained and substantive engagement in a peace settlement has the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Joanne Myers
- • December 11, 2019
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On a busy day of a busy week and year, Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, spoke frankly in an interview about her role as the first woman to be appointed to this…
- Categories: US-UN Relations, Women
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- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • March 25, 2019
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Abigail Disney is an American filmmaker and philanthropist who founded Fork Films and Peace Is Loud, an advocacy group. She also founded — with her husband, Pierre Hauser — the Daphne Foundation. Since her 2009 film “Pray the Devil…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 4, 2019
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As a united front in the fight to preserve the European Union, France and Germany are about to gain a global audience. During March and April, their top United Nations ambassadors, François Delattre and Christoph Heusgen, will take turns —…
- Categories: Climate Change, Gender Violence, Security Council Presidency
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 3, 2019
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Although the Dominican Republic has been a member of the United Nations since 1945, the country is making its debut on the Security Council this month — starting big, as the president in the rotating seat. It is the…
- Categories: Caribbean, Security Council Presidency
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 5, 2018
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Welcome to our new column, Security Council Presidency, providing insight into the United Nations Security Council member sitting in the rotating seat of the president every month, starting in July with Sweden and its ambassador, Olof Skoog. The column…
- Categories: Climate Change, Security Council, Security Council Presidency
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- Adriana Erthal Abdenur
- • March 13, 2018
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and the resulting agenda on women, peace and security has called for more inclusive peace processes, stressing that women’s specific needs and experiences should be taken into account during and after peace negotiations….
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, Women
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- Rhona Scullion
- • March 8, 2016
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LONDON — The Center for Women, Peace and Security, based at the London School of Economics in Britain, is a year old. The first of its kind in Europe, the center aims to shed light on the prevalence of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Women
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