Stephane Dujarric
- Damilola Banjo
- • September 16, 2022
This week, we focus on the preparations of the annual United Nations General Assembly opening session with world leaders — “high-level week” — from Sept. 20-26 and other stories around the world. The speakers’ list is constantly revising, though…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • October 20, 2021
Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond, a Chilean who has had a long career with the United Nations, remains a controversial figure among some staff members, stemming from a UN inquiry into his workplace behavior that began in December 2020. Certain countries…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Special Envoys
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 14, 2021
As the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on Sunday — and the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, fled the country — the United Nations continues to decline to say whether it is planning to evacuate its thousands of…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Agencies
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 14, 2021
As the final round of the Generation Equality Forum was about to open in Paris in late June, some reporters, including from PassBlue, were directed by a few United Nations agencies most involved in the event, to ask their…
- Categories: Journalists, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Careers
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 22, 2021
The United Nations’ top agency for humanitarian aid is poised for a new boss to arrive, one who could instill a management style far removed from what some of its staffers call a “neocolonial mind-set” under the outgoing head,…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, UN Agencies
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • November 4, 2020
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has so far remained silent on the United States Nov. 3 presidential election, despite concerns about possible violence in the country and President Trump having prematurely proclaimed victory. Indeed, the UN warned its…
- Categories: Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • August 17, 2020
The devastating series of explosions that rocked Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Aug. 4, killed nearly 200 people, injured thousands of others, destroyed most of the city’s port, flattened surrounding neighborhoods, damaged six hospitals and more than 20…
- Categories: Covid-19, Middle East, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Dulcie Leimbach  and Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 15, 2020
The coronavirus has officially hit the United Nations at its New York City headquarters. On Thursday, March 12, the first reported case was confirmed by a diplomat with the Philippines mission to the UN, who said that a Filipino…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Covid-19, Health and Population, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 27, 2020
The United Nations turns 75 this year, all year long. As its purpose is being questioned by some of its biggest donor nations, including the United States, the UN has a new person to reshape its public image through its…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN75
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 29, 2017
When the White House sent its proposed 2018 budget to the United States Congress on May 23, it was apparent that not only would a hawkish, nationalistic focus on military expenditures come at the cost of international aid and…
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 4, 2016
The United Nations will swear in António Guterres as its ninth secretary-general on Dec. 12, when the organization will be only weeks away from the inauguration of Donald Trump and the potentially most threatening, hostile political opposition to the…
- Categories: Special Report, UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • November 15, 2016
Right off the bat, the profile avatar of the @eweNitedNations Twitter account lets readers know what to expect in its mordantly satirical jabs at the United Nations Security Council. A sheep, photoshopped into wearing the blue beret of UN…
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 20, 2016
Wonder Woman is not so wonderful in the eyes of hundreds of United Nations staff members around the world. Earlier this week, a petition began circulating among personnel to ask their boss, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to rescind the choice…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 7, 2015
A luxury-loving diplomat susceptible to bribery, a clutch of rich Chinese with business interests and an open door to the top leadership of the United Nations General Assembly. It all adds up to not only a blow to the…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN Diplomats
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 6, 2015
The uproar over accusations that French soldiers assigned to peacekeeping had sexually abused about a dozen boys in the Central African Republic from late 2013 through mid-2014 has shifted focus from the apparent behavior of the soldiers to the…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, UN Agencies
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