Sergio Vieira de Mello
- Dali ten Hove
- • April 16, 2020
The much-anticipated biopic among United Nations watchers, “Sergio,” a drama relating the tale of Sergio Vieira de Mello, opened today on Netflix. It features the actors Wagner Moura as Sergio and Ana de Armas as his partner, Carolina Larriera….
- Categories: Covid-19, UN Diplomats
- David L. Phillips
- • August 22, 2018
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who died on Aug. 18, in Switzerland, was deeply committed to peace and the UN Charter, as well as human rights and humanitarian action. He led a debate about harmonizing these principles and rebalancing the sovereignty…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 23, 2016
When a tough independent report sharply criticized the United Nations in December for its bungled attempts to cover up, or at least ignore, the sexual abuse of children by peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic in recent years,…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Diplomats, UN Special Envoys
- Irwin Arieff
- • February 20, 2016
Sun Tzu’s classic work on the art of war advises would-be warriors to “know your enemy.” What were Western powers and the United Nations thinking when they first pondered ways to stop Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from beating, torturing,…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Peter Nadin
- • June 23, 2015
SYDNEY, Australia — In August 2000, Lakhdar Brahimi, a prominent United Nations diplomat from Algeria, submitted his landmark review on UN peacekeeping to the secretary-general at the time, Kofi Annan. The previous year had been crucial for peacekeeping. The retrenchment…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Patrick Rosenow
- • August 1, 2013
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, Security Council, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
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