Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Damilola Banjo
- • December 9, 2022
This week, the Taliban carried out their first execution, letting a man shoot the person who allegedly murdered his son. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council, Terrorism, This Week @UN, US Foreign Relations
- Stephen Schlesinger
- • June 7, 2022
If there is a mantra for United States foreign policy under the Biden administration, it is the idea of a “rules-based international order.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a major speech delivered at the Asia Society on May…
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 6, 2021
Jessica Neuwirth, a pivotal force in promoting and supporting the rights of women and girls worldwide, was appointed to the rank of chevalier in the French Legion of Honor by the French government in a ceremony in New York…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 20, 2020
In an extraordinary report that defies reality, the Trump administration is extolling United States’ global leadership in human rights and accusing its critics of threatening democracy. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who created the US Commission on Unalienable Rights…
- Categories: Human Rights, US Foreign Relations
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • April 3, 2018
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 70 years ago, the hopes of its drafters and of people across the globe was that it would help transform the world into a place of freedom and justice. Sadly, the…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • February 15, 2018
Indigenous people, several millions of them, live in more than 80 countries and have long suffered, and continue to suffer, from injustices. Until 1981, they had no global forum in which to appear to plead for justice and for…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice
- Bertrand G. Ramcharan
- • August 22, 2017
Secretary-General António Guterres has set about modernizing some sectors of the United Nations and made impassioned statements about the need to protect human rights. But beyond rhetoric, so far there has been no indication of his modernizing the human-rights…
- Categories: Human Rights, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Irwin Arieff
- • May 13, 2017
It is widely believed that the Allied powers were in the dark about the “final solution” — the Nazi campaign to exterminate Europe’s Jews — until the discovery of the death camps, strewn with corpses and emaciated inmates, at…
- Categories: BOOKS, Human Rights, International Justice
- Joseph Chamie
- • August 10, 2016
You have a right to leave your country, but you don’t have a right to enter another country. That asymmetry of human rights is a basic axiom of the global international migration system. Nearly 70 years ago, the Universal…
- Categories: Human Rights, Migration, Refugees
- Nancy Young
- • December 13, 2015
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Here in the office of the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux in Haiti’s capital, more than 2,000 letters of cholera victims seeking justice came pouring in to be delivered on Dec. 10 to the headquarters of the United…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- A. Edward Elmendorf
- • January 19, 2014
Jan Eliasson has been the deputy secretary-general of the United Nations since July 2012, the second in command after Ban Ki-moon. Eliasson, 73, is a former Swedish foreign minister and was ambassador to the United States twice, among other…
- Categories: Development, Peace and Security
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 13, 2012
In blocking adoption by the United States of a global convention to protect the disabled, the Republican right signaled on Dec. 4 that it intends to stall or kill all international treaties sent to the Senate for ratification by…
- Categories: Human Rights, US-UN Relations
- Anthony C. Gooch
- • December 3, 2012
The time has come for the United States to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, commonly known as Cedaw, particularly after women voters asserted themselves so effectively in recent US elections. The…
- Categories: Women, WORLDVIEWS
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