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- Damilola Banjo
- • November 4, 2022
There’s a new sheriff in town! This week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed a new man to lead the Department of Peace Operations as the police adviser. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the…
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 29, 2022
This week, we focus on the deadly attacks against the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and assaults in Yemen, leading to deaths of children. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing…
- Dawn Clancy
- • May 16, 2022
In October, the United States and Russia will square off in a high-stakes election to decide who will be the next secretary-general of the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU) — helping to determine the future of Internet communications…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council
- Damilola Banjo
- • April 1, 2022
This week, the spotlight remains on the desperate plight of millions of people around the world. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. This week, we bring you an analysis of President Putin’s…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • January 25, 2022
President Joe Biden has brought back an era of diplomatic normalcy to the United Nations in his first year in office. After the often-raucous and unpredictable four years of the Trump administration’s relations with the UN, Biden and his…
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 12, 2021
PassBlue probes the global body granting licenses to mine the deep seas; UN staff detained in Ethiopia; global famine rises. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • September 22, 2021
The second day of world leaders’ speeches delivered at the United Nations General Assembly continued on Sept. 22, after the heavily reported appearance of United States President Joe Biden at the fabled rostrum in the Assembly Hall; a last-minute…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Human Rights, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • August 25, 2021
When Guatemala’s Attorney General Consuelo Porras recently removed the anticorruption leader Juan Francisco Sandoval from his post as the special prosecutor against impunity, her action ended the last semblance of prosecutorial independence generated by one of the most successful…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Migration, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
- Ellen Tolmie
- • August 9, 2021
Jockeying for Unicef’s next executive director is well underway, after the July 13 announcement by its current head, Henrietta Fore, that she is leaving before the year’s end. She is going because of a family health emergency and well…
- Categories: UN Agencies, WORLDVIEWS
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 30, 2021
A deadly assault on the United Nations’ mission in Afghanistan; Myanmar’s junta seeks the UN envoy seat; the World Meteorological Organization’s troubles; Canada’s big step for Inuits. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing…
- Categories: General Assembly, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Clair MacDougall
- • July 20, 2021
Yusuf Mingazov met his father, Ravil, for the first time through a videocall between a Red Cross office in Nottingham, Britain, and the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, where he had been imprisoned for more than 14 years….
- Categories: Human Rights, Terrorism, US-UN Relations
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 12, 2021
In times of extreme adversity, hope and light can come from unexpected places. In South Sudan — haunted by a war for independence, followed by a civil war and continued unrest in its short history — people can point…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, Poverty, Women
- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 7, 2021
China in the United Nations’ hot seat; Guterres’s vision for another five years; the future of global cooperation; who was Anne Dragon Nezeriotis? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 26, 2021
Anti-Asian violence; the closing window for a woman secretary-general; a UN expert threatened by Saudi Arabia; the UN’s humanitarian-aid agency cries out for changes. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The…
- Ivana Ramirez
- • January 15, 2021
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres pursues a second term; a total of six peacekeepers were killed in Mali and the Central African Republic; Britain helps raise $1 billion for the UN’s Covax vaccine program. You are reading This Week…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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