UN reform
- Opinion by Thomas G. Weiss
- • September 26, 2023
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Parachuting into the frenzy of Manhattan’s East Side last week exposed the usual traffic snarls and not-so diplomatic cacophony about the United Nations. The noise included hackneyed pleas to alter the Security Council, often mixed with calls to draft a …
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 23, 2023
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This week, the UN secretary-general castigates Russia for its murderous attacks on children in Ukraine; and countries move to save marine biodiversity in a new treaty. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The …
- Categories: Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Richard Ponzio and Nudhara Yusuf
- • June 20, 2023
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In September 2024 — 15 months from now — the United Nations’ 193 member states are expected to convene a Summit of the Future during the General Assembly’s annual high-level week in New York City. In addition to helping countries …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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- Opinion by Natalie Samarasinghe and Giovanna Kuele
- • May 1, 2023
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It is a cliché, but true, to say the United Nations is needed more — and under more duress — than ever. Overstretched and constrained, it has struggled to keep up with the scale and challenges facing humanity, from the …
- Categories: Development, General Assembly, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 17, 2023
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This week, we focus on the rising humanitarian crises in the world as the situation in Türkiye and Syria deepens. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
- Categories: This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 14, 2023
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The one fact that all countries at the United Nations agree on is that Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States cherish their veto right in the Security Council. Yet recent debates to shake up the calcified status quo …
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Evelyn Leopold
- • January 30, 2023
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Everyone talks about reforming the United Nations Security Council but change remains elusive after decades of debates. This past year, the voices for expanding the Council became louder, yet few can agree on how to do it. And they were …
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • December 9, 2022
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This week, the Taliban carried out their first execution, letting a man shoot the person who allegedly murdered his son. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council, Terrorism, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations
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- Damilola Banjo
- • December 6, 2022
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Ruchira Kamboj, India’s ambassador to the United Nations, said the Security Council could no longer afford to delay being more reflective of the diversity of the UN “wider membership” if it wants to remain relevant. The South Asian country of …
- Categories: Asia, Climate Change, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency, Terrorism
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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 22, 2022
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Many African leaders who spoke at the United Nations General Assembly so far seem to all want the same thing: a permanent seat at the Security Council table. “Africa has waited long enough and will not wait any longer,” Ali …
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Security Council, Terrorism
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- Opinion by Richard Ponzio and Jerry Zhang
- • February 9, 2022
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Within year one, the Biden administration rejoined the Paris Agreement and Human Rights Council, re-engaged with the World Health Organization, accelerated support of the Covax operation and took steps to strengthen United Nations peacekeeping and nuclear nonproliferation regimes. Equally significant, …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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- Opinion by Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 16, 2021
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António Guterres soon will be recrowned Secretary-General after Manhattan’s five-member Electoral College, the permanent members of the Security Council, send its recommendation to the General Assembly for a ceremonial vote. In 2016, his election was an unusually transparent process — …
- Categories: OPINIONS, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 22, 2020
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Donald Trump, speaking on the opening day of the United Nations’ 75th General Assembly session — the same day that the United States officially tallied a coronavirus death toll of 200,000 people — reiterated all his familiar grievances against China …
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 10, 2020
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Hugh Dugan, a retired United States Foreign Service officer and former US delegate to the United Nations, has been appointed to the US National Security Council as special assistant for international organization affairs, an integral post for government relations with …
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Stephen Browne
- • January 6, 2020
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GENEVA — Like his predecessors, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has been pushing a reform program to help the organization adjust to the demands of contemporary global governance. Over nearly 75 years, the UN has innovated and adapted. At first, …
- Categories: Development, OPINIONS, SDGs
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