UN75 Declaration
- 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 Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani and Anna Karin Enestrom
- • October 12, 2021
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In February 2020, just weeks before New York City and much of the world went into lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we and our fellow ambassadors at the United Nations began six months of negotiations, culminating in the …
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- María Fernanda Espinosa and Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
- • October 24, 2020
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Since its founding 75 years ago, the United Nations has proven, with the support of its member countries and other partners, its worth in complex problem-solving. That includes preventing great-power wars, remedying humanitarian emergencies, safeguarding human rights and reducing extreme …
- Categories: Development, Disarmament, Governance, Health and Population, Human Rights, SDGs
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • October 22, 2020
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By all accounts, 2020 has been a terrible year so far — but is it worse than 1920? In 1920, World War I, which killed 16 million people, had just ended. The two-year influenza pandemic that followed killed 50 million …
- Categories: General Assembly, Health and Population, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Giovanna Kuele
- • July 22, 2020
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As consensus was finally achieved on July 7, a final draft of the UN-75 political declaration has been approved and is expected to be adopted by world leaders on Sept. 21 at United Nations headquarters through virtual means. Given the …
- Categories: Climate Change, Covid-19
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- Richard Ponzio and Cristina Petcu
- • June 23, 2020
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On the heels of the 1930s Great Depression and in the midst of global turmoil — World War II — leaders from the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom gathered in 1944 at …
- Categories: Climate Change, Governance, Secretary-General, UN75
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