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- Damilola Banjo
- • January 6, 2023
Margot Wallstrom, who chairs the Women’s Forum on Afghanistan, is asking the United Nations Security Council to pay an urgent visit to the Taliban-controlled country. Wallstrom, who was Sweden’s foreign minister from 2014 to 2019, addressed her request…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Security Council, Women
- Geraldine Byrne Nason
- • August 14, 2022
Today marks a dark anniversary — one year since Kabul fell to the Taliban. As Ireland’s ambassador to the United Nations, I have always said I will judge the Taliban by their actions, not by their words. Their actions…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- 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
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 12, 2021
PassBlue probes the global body granting licenses to mine the deep seas; UN staff detained in Ethiopia; global famine rises. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 23, 2021
If you have understandably faded from the UNGA76 gathering by now, here are highlights for Day 3 of global leaders’ speeches, held on Sept. 23. We’ve also included Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s late-night remarks on Sept. 22 in the…
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Climate Change, General Assembly, Health and Population, Terrorism, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 10, 2021
Calling all world leaders to the General Assembly; the Taliban shun women; Biden’s confounding foreign policy. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 3, 2021
The UN’s priorities in Afghanistan for now; how certain multinational corporations feed on new-mothers’ fears amid Covid; Ireland’s envoy defends the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 14, 2021
As the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on Sunday — and the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, fled the country — the United Nations continues to decline to say whether it is planning to evacuate its thousands of…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Agencies
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 30, 2021
A deadly assault on the United Nations’ mission in Afghanistan; Myanmar’s junta seeks the UN envoy seat; the World Meteorological Organization’s troubles; Canada’s big step for Inuits. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing…
- Categories: General Assembly, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Ivana Ramirez
- • December 18, 2020
Does UN Secretary-General António Guterres deserve another term; as Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out in New York City, what about UN staff and diplomats there; and how far will President-elect Biden go at the UN? You’re reading This Week…
- Categories: Health and Population, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • February 18, 2019
After fleeing violence and unemployment in their home country for the relative stability of neighboring Iran, hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghans are now returning home. The mass reverse migration is taking place just as the United States, eager…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Migration, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations
- Elisabeth Braw
- • October 29, 2013
LONDON — Georgette Gagnon’s job in Afghanistan as the country representative for the United Nations high commissioner for human rights may sound like an impossible mission, given the country’s notorious instability and flagrant abuse of women’s rights. Yet it…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Women
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • March 20, 2013
With the deadline for the departure of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan just a year away, civilian casualties in the country remain alarmingly high, says a new report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama). Although…
- Categories: Asia, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
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