UN Human Rights Council
- Kateryna Rashevska
- • December 26, 2022
KYIV — During its eight years of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has systematically pursued a policy of eradicating Ukrainian identity among children in the occupied territories. Deportation, separation from parents, transfer to Russian families, imposition of citizenship, Russification and…
- Categories: Human Rights, Ukraine-Russia War, WORLDVIEWS
- Vincent Ploton
- • December 22, 2022
As Volker Turk, the new United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is in his second month in office, it’s a good moment to take stock of his early moves. Turk’s predecessors have all upheld the dominant UN discourse…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 25, 2022
This week, we focus on climate commitments made at the just-concluded COP27 as well as the UN Environment Program honoring activists. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 23, 2022
Navi Pillay, who leads the United Nations Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry on Palestine and Israel, has written to the president of the General Assembly about a “matter of significant concern” involving the Israeli ambassador at a public…
- Kourosh Ziabari
- • November 22, 2022
Leaders of major democracies are intensifying their denunciations of the Iranian government for its continued brutal crackdown on the protests in the country, which are moving into their third month as Iran has issued four death sentences so far…
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly, Human Rights, Middle East, Security Council
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 16, 2022
LAGOS — The United Nations is ignoring repeated calls for help in resolving a resource war between largely Christian farmers and mainly Muslim herders in Kaduna, a state in northwest Nigeria. The conflict has been smoldering since 2011 and…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Human Rights
- Natalie Samarasinghe
- • October 27, 2022
“The United Nations is dead,” said the Catholic Herald in 1947, two years after the UN was founded. Reports of its demise are perennial, but they seem to have reached a crescendo this year, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • October 14, 2022
This week, we celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child amid various restrictions on and violations of girls’ rights globally. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 2, 2022
It was billed as a grand ceremony staged by the United Nations Association of Germany to award its biennial Otto Hahn Peace Medal to Navi Pillay, marking her decades of groundbreaking work in human rights and international criminal law,…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 22, 2022
This week, we focus on the signing of the UN-Turkish led grain deal as well as the Nelson Mandela memorial event, where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made a big statement with their appearance and his speech. You…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Ben Donaldson  and Enyseh Teimory
- • July 19, 2022
LONDON — A new United Nations high commissioner for human rights needs to be found, appointed by the General Assembly and be ready to begin work on Sept. 1. Anyone who meets the criteria set out in the UN’s…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 8, 2022
This week, we focus on the continual attacks on UN peacekeepers in Mali, which further stall efforts to restore peace in the West African country. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization….
- Asila Wardak
- • June 13, 2022
Over the last 20 years, the United States and other global powers pumped money and military aid into Afghanistan, only to see it disappear when militarism proved untenable and ineffective. Now, as Afghanistan endures a state of emergency, those…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Irwin Arieff
- • May 23, 2022
Can we shed a tear for Sergey Lavrov? Who could have foreseen, a few years back, the huge mess he now finds himself in? Spanning five decades of service in Moscow’s foreign policy hierarchy, the veteran envoy has worked…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Diplomats, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • May 13, 2022
This week, we focus on how the UN is further rallying support to combat the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the widespread condemnation against the killing of Al Jazeera’s reporter in Palestine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing…
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