Top Stories 2015
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 17, 2015
Before this year ends, the United Nations will have committed itself and its 193 member governments to a new 15-year development strategy to be hailed as a blueprint for ending poverty, expanding social justice and strengthening equality. Equality for…
- Categories: Development, LGBT, SDGs
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 8, 2015
Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has made herself scarce in answering direct, spontaneous questions from the press corps based at the UN, to the chagrin of many reporters. The press corps is international by…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Amy Wu
- • April 22, 2015
Misao Okama celebrated her 117th birthday on March 5 surrounded by her family, which included great-grandchildren, and congratulatory government officials. This milestone made Okama the world’s oldest woman. She died on April 1. Based on the most recent population forecast…
- Categories: Asia, Health and Population, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 31, 2015
On the eve of a speech Ruchira Gupta was to give on International Women’s Day in New York as the recipient of a Woman of Distinction award, she got a strange email. Gupta, who has collected numerous awards for…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Poverty, Women
- Trishula Patel
- • March 17, 2015
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Elephants across the African continent face poaching, loss of habitable land and food supplies and culling. When World Wildlife Day was marked this month, the United Nations General Assembly discussed wildlife crime across the globe, including…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change
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