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- Arthur Bassas
- • September 24, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming out of the organization. This week, world leaders descended on New York City for the opening debate of the 78th session of the General Assembly. It…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, General Assembly, Latin America, SDGs, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 22, 2023
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Barbados: The Time for Reparative Justice Has Come — Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley said that reparative justice is inevitable for countries that suffered the horrendous consequences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to develop economically. She made…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Dawn Clancy and Maurizio Guerrero
- • September 19, 2023
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Biden Pushes Global Unity as Russia Keeps Demolishing Ukraine — President Joe Biden called for unity and partnership as world leaders gathered at what he described as an “inflection point in world history,” where nations must work together to…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Latin America, SDGs, Secretary-General, UNGA78
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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 18, 2023
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The common thread woven across the dozens of speeches by world leaders at the opening of the two-day United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Summit was a clarion call for faster progress toward achieving the goals’ deadline of 2030. National…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Arthur Bassas
- • September 15, 2023
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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. This week, we focus on the bookended natural disasters in Libya and Morocco….
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, General Assembly, SDGs, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 13, 2023
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The world is wary that the Sustainable Development Goals will not be achieved by their deadline of 2030, but Lachezara Stoeva thinks that people should instead be focusing on how to speed up progress at this crucial midpoint. “Although…
- Categories: SDGs
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- Opinion by Fergal Mythen
- • September 11, 2023
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There’s an old Irish proverb, “Ní hé lá na gaoithe lá na scolb.” Roughly translated, it means that “the day of the wind is not the day for fixing the thatch” — a common roofing material for homes in…
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- Opinion by Max-Otto Baumann and Sebastian Haug
- • July 19, 2023
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Qu Dongyu was recently re-elected as director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, a specialized agency within the United Nations system. This news directs attention to a trend that has come under increasing scrutiny: China’s expanding engagement with the UN development…
- Categories: Development, OPINIONS
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- Chloé Cosson
- • July 14, 2023
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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. This week, we look at promising developments around the FSO Safer crisis,…
- Categories: Human Rights, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 16, 2023
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This week, the UN secretary-general introduced his policy agendas on peace, AI and the “integrity” of digital platforms, while in the Security Council, Mali told the UN to withdraw its peacekeeping mission from the country immediately. You are reading This…
- Categories: Africa, Cities, Climate Change, Disabilities, Human Rights, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • June 12, 2023
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — On Mother’s Day weekend in the United States, families across Buffalo were commemorating a mass shooting of exactly one year ago. Occurring at the only supermarket in the city’s Masten District, the massacre killed 10 people…
- Categories: Cities, Human Rights, Poverty, SDGs, Women
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- Opinion by Richard Ponzio
- • April 3, 2023
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The formal preparations for the September 2024 Summit of the Future, to be held at the United Nations, are underway. Responding to an update in February on the “Our Common Agenda” vision proposed by Secretary-General António Guterres, a large…
- Categories: Development, General Assembly, Governance, OPINIONS, UN Agencies
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- Opinion by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
- • November 30, 2022
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The decision at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to establish a fund to assist developing countries address loss and damage from the adverse impacts of climate change was a momentous signal of hope for humanity and the planet. The…
- Categories: Climate Change, OPINIONS, SDGs
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- Susanne Courtney
- • July 12, 2022
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With the world facing an unprecedented food crisis, the smallest of the three Rome-based agencies of the United Nations — the International Fund for Agricultural Development — has a new president. Álvaro Lario, its chief financial officer and a…
- Categories: Development, Poverty, SDGs, UN Agencies
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- Dawn Clancy
- • June 22, 2022
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In the waning days of 2021, roughly two months before its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russia agreed to contribute $14 million to the United Nations Development Program for climate-related projects in Europe and Central Asia to begin…
- Categories: Development, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Agencies
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