UN General Assembly Fifth Committee
- Opinion by Fred Carver
- • August 17, 2017
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LONDON — With little fanfare at the end of June, the United Nations General Assembly agreed to a peacekeeping budget for the financial year from July 2017 to July 2018. The budget contained significant cuts as well as a shift …
- Categories: Africa, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Rosa Freedman
- • March 22, 2015
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A new policy affecting the dependents of United Nations staff members in same-sex marriages could be overturned in a vote by the General Assembly’s Fifth Committee on Tuesday. The new policy being challenged signifies a small step toward eliminating discrimination …
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 6, 2013
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Not quite two years into his term as the United States representative for UN management and reform, an angry Ambassador Joseph M. Torsella has had enough. In some recent speeches, Torsella, a former head of the National Constitution Center in …
- Categories: General Assembly, US-UN Relations
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