Richard Holbrooke
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 8, 2015
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Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has made herself scarce in answering direct, spontaneous questions from the press corps based at the UN, to the chagrin of many reporters. The press corps is international by…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 6, 2014
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — “Please don’t let the world forget us again.” The plea is heard everywhere by men as well as by women in the picturesque Balkan city of Sarajevo, the site of Europe’s most destructive…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, International Justice, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 3, 2013
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As media coverage of the United Nations dwindles and becomes more hyperfocused on geopolitics, the public learns less and less about the UN itself and how it operates. Who is to blame for the decreasing, narrow coverage — the…
- Categories: US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Patrick Rosenow
- • August 1, 2013
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President Obama’s choice of Samantha Power to become the next United States ambassador to the United Nations and her recent confirmation by the Senate sends a strong, positive signal to all human-rights defenders. “As one of our country’s leading…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 21, 2012
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One of the most interesting developments in the Security Council’s work in the past decades is the increasing frequency and immediacy of “road trips” ambassadors are taking to the most problematic places on their agenda. Recent delegations have gone…
- Categories: Security Council
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