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- Rhona Scullion
- • August 11, 2020
Just four months ago, Sudan took the monumental step to ban female genital mutilation, a painful, unnecessary and dangerous procedure that leaves lasting scars. Generally carried out on girls before they reach puberty, genital mutilation is now punishable in…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Gender Violence, SDGs
- Allison Lecce
- • June 26, 2020
Starting in June, a summary of the most important news on the United Nations’ work in New York City and worldwide will be highlighted weekly. The news will be drawn from the UN spokesperson’s briefings, our original reporting and…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- 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
- Irwin Arieff
- • May 1, 2020
Just how crazy is Donald Trump’s campaign to punish the World Health Organization over its apparent “China-centric” bias in the midst of a deadly pandemic? Let us count the ways. At the top of the list: It may contribute…
- Categories: Covid-19, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 25, 2020
Whether or not Donald Trump will be re-elected president on Nov. 3, a tough debate is likely to begin soon in the United States Congress over the national budget for the unpredictable year ahead. Reproductive health issues rank high…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 26, 2019
It did not take long after the 74th General Assembly session opened this fall for the Trump team to signal that its strategy in key United Nations meetings would be to act as uncooperative and obstructive as possible, especially on…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 26, 2019
“I am pro-life, I believe that all human life is sacred, and that human life begins at conception,” Andrew Bremberg told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently. Asked if rape victims should have access to abortion, he…
- Categories: Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • June 19, 2019
Kelly Knight Craft, Donald Trump’s pick to be the next United States ambassador to the United Nations, raised eyebrows in her June 19 Senate confirmation hearing by putting some space between her views on global climate change and those…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 28, 2019
With a fierce national budget battle looming in the United States Congress, Democrats on a key committee have formally proposed legislation overturning Trump policies that deny millions of women and girls in developing countries access to vital reproductive health…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 2, 2019
Here’s how the United States government marked the 2019 monthlong celebration of the world’s women in March: Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got off to an early start on March 13Â by releasing the State Department’s annual…
- Categories: Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach  and Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • December 12, 2018
The nomination of Heather Nauert to succeed Nikki Haley as United States ambassador to the United Nations has quickly enraged some international women’s rights groups and a major Islamic advocacy organization based in the United States, portending a tense…
- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 25, 2018
In a rare act of legislative sabotage, the Trump administration’s plan to starve international family planning of funds has been killed for now as committees in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate slipped hundreds of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 27, 2017
It will soon be two years since the United Nations adopted a new 15-year development policy encapsulated in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. This sprawling, ambitious agenda was designed partly to address the shortcomings of the Millennium Goals, the…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Health and Population, SDGs, Take a Look, US Foreign Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 28, 2017
Five months into her stint as United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley faced two days of often-sharp questioning on June 27 and 28 by influential panels of the United States Congress. They demanded justification for the…
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 5, 2017
The death on June 4 of Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, and a Nigerian, was not only a personal tragedy and a shock to the staff of the fund but also another blow…
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Health and Population, UN Agencies
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