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- 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
- Stephen Browne
- • August 22, 2022
Individual member states have always exerted a heavy influence on the United Nations. The dominance of individual powers is the nature of multilateralism, but in the UN system it is particularly marked. The Security Council can only do its…
- Categories: Development, Secretary-General, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 24, 2022
This week, we focus on two crises in Africa: never-ending deadly setbacks of peacekeeping and the humanitarian needs on the continent. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 16, 2021
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: SDGs, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Antonio Menendez de Zubillaga
- • May 25, 2020
LILONGWE, Malawi — Ever since an expatriate tourism adviser labeled Malawi the “warm heart of Africa” in the 1970s, Malawians have worn the title proudly, sparing no effort to welcome visitors with open arms. My family and I felt…
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 18, 2019
Serious flaws in the system for tracking progress on the Sustainable Development Goals have been uncovered in a newly published collection of stunning, provocative research by eminent developing policy specialists. They are finding that the lofty visions that produced…
- Categories: Health and Population, SDGs
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 21, 2019
As multilateralism takes a beating from President Trump amid the “new world disorder,” as one European diplomat put it, three women who know the United Nations inside and out through previous top leadership jobs have originated a Group of…
- Categories: SDGs, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 28, 2019
As the first effects of Secretary-General António Guterres’s ambitious organizational reform plans become apparent, former and current officials of the United Nations Development Program see the future of the internationally influential agency as uncertain if not in peril. Fears…
- Categories: Development, Health and Population, SDGs
- Helmut Volger
- • January 21, 2019
BERLIN — At the start of Germany’s sixth two-year term in the United Nations Security Council, the media attention in Germany is unusually high: numerous journalists on TV and radio are asking diplomats, politicians and foreign policy experts about…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Stephen Browne  and Thomas G. Weiss
- • December 7, 2017
GENEVA — Change is in the air again on First Avenue. Among numerous reform options being bandied about, none will be more consequential than those on financing the United Nations system. There are the sledgehammer arguments: drastic slashes in…
- Categories: UN Agencies
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 17, 2017
António Guterres just laid out his first major reform plan for the United Nations through a report presenting concrete suggestions embedded in wonky language and hyperbole. One recommendation that stands out is the emphasis by Guterres, the secretary-general, to…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • April 19, 2016
This is not your grandfather’s election cycle. Will this be the year a woman is elected to one of the highest political positions in the world? What’s up with the surprise candidate gaining unexpected momentum? Can any candidate truly…
- Categories: Secretary-General
- Joanne Csete
- • April 14, 2016
“A drug-free world — we can do it!” was the tragically misguided slogan of the last major United Nations summit on drug control in 1998. UN member states will soon come together in the General Assembly, from April 19…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 13, 2015
In 70 years of United Nations history, Eastern Europe has been the only regional group in the organization that has never filled the position of secretary-general. Western Europe has had three secretaries-general; Asia and Africa, two each; and Latin…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, Women
- Trishula Patel
- • March 17, 2015
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Elephants across the African continent face poaching, loss of habitable land and food supplies and culling. When World Wildlife Day was marked this month, the United Nations General Assembly discussed wildlife crime across the globe, including…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change
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