UN Secretariat
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • August 10, 2021
As outbreaks of Covid-19 cases spike again in many places worldwide, the United Nations Secretariat in New York City faces reopening decisions that pit some staff members’ interests against those of UN member states. Pressure is coming from UN…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Agencies
- Tatiana Carayannis  and Thomas G. Weiss
- • October 19, 2020
This week we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, as the Covid-19 pandemic highlights our interdependence and the need for global cooperation. Enthusiasm for it, however, is in short supply amid deteriorating Washington-Beijing relations, Brexit and rising…
- Categories: Climate Change, Covid-19, Governance, Health and Population, WORLDVIEWS
- Kseniya Oksamytna and Vincenzo Bove and Magnus Lundgren
- • July 7, 2020
Leaders of United Nations peacekeeping operations comprise an important and unique category of high-level officials in the world body. They have a difficult and often thankless job of trying to manage “Christmas tree” mandates handed down by the Security…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • May 12, 2020
“Are you a senior medical executive with expertise in healthcare management with oversight of clinical services and occupational health at a facility, state, national or international level? The United Nations Secretariat is seeking a Medical Director at the D-2…
- Categories: Covid-19, Secretary-General
- Mona Ali Khalil
- • October 11, 2016
“Those who seek to bestow legitimacy must themselves embody it, and those who invoke international law must themselves submit to it.” So spoke United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the 59th session of the UN General Assembly on…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Benjamin Foldy
- • January 14, 2014
With the appointment of Jane Holl Lute, an American, as his special adviser for relocating the residents of Camp Hurriya, located outside Baghdad in Iraq, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is showing a willingness to take major steps toward…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Irwin Arieff
- • April 1, 2013
They say that an army travels on its stomach. If the same is true of international diplomacy, the United Nations is in big trouble. The main UN cafeteria in New York recently sprang back to life as headquarters staff…
- Categories: UN EATS
- Yermi Brenner
- • February 19, 2013
Thousands of people packed the streets of Pristina this past weekend, celebrating as Kosovo marked five years of independence. But in the municipalities of northern Kosovo, few people were rejoicing. Thirteen years after Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian leader whose…
- Categories: General Assembly, Peace and Security
- A. Edward Elmendorf
- • November 4, 2012
In his new book, “Living With the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order,” Kenneth Anderson forces readers who lean sympathetically toward the United Nations to consider why they support it despite its faults. On the other hand, the acerbic views…
- Categories: BOOKS, US-UN Relations
- Helmut Volger
- • March 26, 2012
BERLIN — Like his predecessors, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon started his second term, in January, by presenting a program to the General Assembly and to the public, adorned with a momentous title: The Five Year Action Agenda,…
- Categories: Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • January 27, 2012
The United Nations World Food Program has named Ertharin Cousin of the United States to replace Josette Sheeran, also American, when Sheeran’s five-year term as executive director ends in April. And Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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