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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 27, 2019
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War clouds hovered again when the leaders of India and Pakistan, the South Asian adversaries that have failed over decades to end their perilous standoff over Kashmir, spoke on the same day at the United Nations, Sept. 27. India has …
- Categories: General Assembly
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- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • September 26, 2019
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This year’s opening session of the United Nations General Assembly stood out for revealing the stark divide now defining international relations: the split between globalists and patriots. On this week’s UN-Scripted podcast, PassBlue reporters Kacie Candela and Stéphanie Fillion look …
- Categories: General Assembly
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 25, 2019
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How women’s issues could be more prominent at the United Nations General Assembly’s annual opening session remains an enigma. The topics of women’s rights and gender equality pop up in speeches by world leaders, including those by women, but their …
- Categories: General Assembly, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 25, 2019
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a point of bringing Canada back to the international stage at the United Nations to win a coveted nonpermanent seat on the Security Council for the 2021-22 term. But amid Trudeau’s re-election campaign and …
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 24, 2019
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After most of the world leaders spent a day teaming up to fight climate change at the Climate Action Summit, the next day strongmen opened the high-level debate of the United Nations General Assembly, showing a growing split between nationalist …
- Categories: General Assembly, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • September 18, 2019
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The 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on Tuesday, Sept. 17, which means that the world’s leaders — mainly heads of state and heads of government and their entourages — are heading to New York City for …
- Categories: General Assembly, SDGs, US-UN Relations
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 15, 2019
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Men will dominate the podium during much of the United Nations General Assembly but, as Abigail Adams urged her husband and other founding fathers of the United States in 1776, “remember the ladies.” This is advice that the UN needs to …
- Categories: Climate Change, General Assembly, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 4, 2019
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Russia is president of the United Nations Security Council in September just as nearly 200 heads of state and government and even a prince or two will soon travel to New York City to attend the opening session of the …
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