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- Damilola Banjo
- • February 24, 2023
You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, we look at the humanitarian crises in Ukraine and another…
- Lex Takkenberg
- • January 26, 2023
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, told the Security Council recently that he was “very concerned” about “unilateral initiatives” by the new Israeli government, noting that “the rule of law is at the heart of achieving a comprehensive peace”…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 9, 2022
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…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council, Terrorism, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 4, 2022
There’s a new sheriff in town! This week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed a new man to lead the Department of Peace Operations as the police adviser. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the…
- Damilola Banjo
- • September 30, 2022
This week, we are excited about Cuba’s historic moment as it legalizes same-sex marriage and protects other vulnerable groups. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
- Damilola Banjo
- • September 7, 2022
Food prices may still be soaring in crisis-prone countries, but Germany is poised to slash its 2023 contribution to global humanitarian and crisis prevention by nearly $400 million. According to data compiled by the United Nations Food and Agriculture…
- Categories: Development, Humanitarian Aid, Refugees, UN Peacekeeping
- Dawn Clancy
- • August 8, 2022
WARSAW, Poland — Olena’s journey begins in the smoldering shadow of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, but whether her escape to safety will end in a suburb of Warsaw, Poland, or thousands of miles away in Dublin,…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security, Refugees, Women
- 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
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 20, 2022
Russia’s war on Ukraine is not only increasing the cost of delivering aid to the world’s most vulnerable people, but European donors’ and American interests in the war are also reducing the ability of those countries to fund global…
- Categories: Development, Humanitarian Aid, Migration, Refugees
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 18, 2022
When Kimba Abdou went to a local store a year ago to buy a 100-kilogram bag of millet, a staple grain for Nigeriens, he parted with 20,000 West African francs, known as CFA, or about $31. The last time…
- Categories: Africa, Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security, Poverty
- Damilola Banjo
- • July 1, 2022
This week, we focus on the progress in discussions about elections in Libya and the drastic call for help in Afghanistan after the recent earthquake. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization….
- Categories: Africa, Libya, Middle East, Migration, Refugees, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 27, 2022
Britain’s new five-year asylum partnership arrangement with Rwanda is showing the rest of Europe how countries can possibly lock refugees out of their borders. And Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, is worried about this precedent….
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 30, 2022
Maria Shust, director of the 56-year-old Ukrainian Museum, in New York City, above. Putin is not only demolishing Ukraine’s infrastructure and murdering civilians but it is also singling out artists and arts institutions because, as Shust said in an…
- Categories: Peace and Security
- Dr. Catherine Mullaly
- • March 1, 2022
Ukraine’s population data are rapidly changing as the war rages in its country since Russia began its aerial, ground and sea assaults late last week. Within 24 hours of issuing its first report, the UN Refugee Agency documented that…
- Categories: Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security
- Nyasha Bhobo
- • February 21, 2022
HARARE, Zimbabwe — In Zimbabwe’s city townships, where high food prices exact a toll on poor households, grocery shops run by entrepreneurial Congolese refugees defend against hunger. “The Congolese shops, they feed my family!” said Sara Moyo, 27, a…
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