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- Damilola Banjo
- • December 2, 2022
This week, we focus on the issues of intensifying violence in the Mideast raised separately by UN special envoys in the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 19, 2022
As education across the world faces tremendous challenges from the three C’s: climate change, conflicts and Covid-19, hitting the world’s youngest and most vulnerable children the hardest, the United Nations tackled the problem in a three-day summit that culminated…
- Categories: Education, General Assembly, Secretary-General
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 27, 2022
Unesco daringly announced this summer the “urgent need of safeguarding” borscht. Or as Ukrainians spell it, borsch. When the Ukrainian government asked the UN cultural and education agency to save the soup’s historical place as a national dish amid…
- Categories: Ukraine-Russia War, UN Agencies, WORLDVIEWS
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 24, 2021
A US delegation to Haiti returns early; potential risks for the $87 billion UN pension fund; an ex-Guantánamo detainee may face torture in Russia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights, SDGs, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 11, 2021
The Ghana delegation posing outside the United Nations General Assembly Hall, June 11, 2021, after the Assembly voted on Security Council members for the 2022-23 term. Besides Ghana, the others are Albania, Brazil, Gabon and United Arab Emirates. They…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • December 16, 2020
As President-elect Joe Biden finds his footing in foreign affairs, one of his foremost challenges will be re-engaging with the United Nations. So far, he has said little about the organization, but he has just appointed a new UN…
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • November 17, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden’s first message to fellow world leaders was clear: America is back. But there’s a glaring omission in his foreign policy plan: the United Nations. After four years of the Trump administration’s defunding and leaving UN organizations…
- Categories: UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Harris Gleckman and Khalil Hamdani
- • September 16, 2020
The General Assembly is surely going to be a very interesting place this month — even if world leaders are staying home for the annual opening debate because of the pandemic. On Monday, Sept. 21, the General Assembly is…
- Categories: General Assembly, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 10, 2020
With Joseph Biden taking an unassailable lead by June 7 as the Democratic Party’s choice for president of the United States, many Americans foresee a desperate, ugly political campaign for re-election by Donald Trump coming. The magnitude of his…
- Categories: Covid-19, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 23, 2020
When Reporters Without Borders recently tallied the murders of journalists across the globe in 2019, the organization found that the confirmed death toll, 49, was the lowest since 2003. That was the good news. The rest of the findings from…
- Categories: Gender Violence
- Joanne Myers
- • December 11, 2019
On a busy day of a busy week and year, Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, spoke frankly in an interview about her role as the first woman to be appointed to this…
- Categories: US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 1, 2019
As outrage and horror build around stories of refugee children, some still in diapers, seized from their parents and suffering neglect and abuse along the United States border with Mexico, Unesco, the United Nations organization with education in its…
- Categories: Education, Migration, US-UN Relations
- Alexandra Bowie
- • April 6, 2019
NAGASAKI, Japan — The live fish of the day, taken from a tank that occupied half the restaurant’s floor space, was squid. Its translucent flesh, cut into neat strips draped carefully over its body, twitched gently as the man…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Jeffrey Laurenti
- • February 11, 2019
In the fall — before the caravan, before the firings, before the shutdown, before the wall — Melania Trump concluded her first solo goodwill tour with a photogenic visit to the Great Pyramid and Sphinx of Egypt, the only…
- Categories: UN Agencies, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 17, 2017
BELPASSO, Italy — The Oasi di Francesca farm-stay hotel is situated in an unlikely spot here in Sicily, about a kilometer from an Italian naval air base and a half hour to the large port city of Catania in…
- Categories: Climate Change, Development, Libya, Migration, Refugees
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