The Elders
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 1, 2021
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The day after the Taliban took over Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason of Ireland spoke directly to Afghan women through her remarks in the United Nations Security Council, telling them: “Women of Afghanistan: we hear you and…
- Categories: Human Rights, Security Council Presidency
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 2, 2021
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Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a memoir due out in June, is done concealing his anger over Donald Trump’s bad behavior on the international stage. The UN has always tried hard to maintain strong ties with the…
- Categories: BOOKS, Nuclear Disarmament, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 18, 2018
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Kofi Annan, the seventh and probably the most popular and widely respected secretary-general the United Nations has ever known, died unexpectedly in Bern, Switzerland, early on Saturday morning, Aug. 18. His death, reportedly from leukemia, followed what initial reports…
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 3, 2016
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For the first time in United Nations history, officially announced candidates for the secretary-general race, underway this year, will be interviewed publicly in the General Assembly along the lines of a standard democratic election. Mogens Lykketoft, the Assembly president…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 30, 2015
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Has Russia put the kibosh on the chances that the next secretary-general of the United Nations will be a woman? As Vitaly Churkin walked ramrod-straight in his dark suit to a working-group discussion at the UN on the process…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 23, 2015
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Convinced that after 70 years it is time to choose a woman for the United Nations’ top job of secretary-general, a new movement led by an academic spcialist on the organization has been assembled to formally support the election…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 31, 2014
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The Elders, a group of distinguished former global leaders led by Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general, made an unusual three-day visit to Iran at the end of January to meet with numerous officials, including President Hassan Rouhani…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 19, 2013
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The Elders, a unique group of former heads of government and other global leaders, founded in 2007 under the leadership of Nelson Mandela, has added a former president of Mexico and an internationally known Pakistani human-rights advocate to its…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, Human Rights
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 13, 2013
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Mary Robinson, a former president of Ireland, United Nations high commissioner for human rights and philanthropist, is said to be the main candidate for the new United Nations special envoy post for the Great Lakes region in central Africa….
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Peace and Security
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