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- Damilola Banjo
- • May 6, 2022
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This week, we report on the UN secretary-general’s Sahel region trip as he took the message of global peace and security to Niger, Nigeria and Senegal, and the momentous evacuation of civilians from Mariupol, Ukraine. You are reading This…
- Categories: Africa, This Week @UN
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- Clair MacDougall
- • May 24, 2021
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Séverine Autesserre, a former humanitarian-aid worker, award-winning researcher and professor of political science at Columbia University, has become one of the foremost thinkers on international peace-building in the last decade. Following “Peaceland,” a book critically exploring the parallel worlds of United…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, Women as Changemakers
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- Opinion by Nancy Young
- • October 18, 2015
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HINCHE, Haiti — We were driving back from watching a soccer game here in central Haiti when my friend instinctively rolled up his window. It can get dusty on Haitian country roads, so I rolled up mine, too, even…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Elisa dos Santos
- • February 4, 2014
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Applying for a job at the United Nations requires a high degree of perseverance — “like trying to find a secret passageway from a brick wall — but eventually you get through,” said Stéphane Dujarric, the director of news…
- Categories: UN Employment
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 6, 2014
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A few years ago in Ethiopia, a survey conducted for the government in the capital, Addis Ababa, discovered that 88 percent of a growing number of homeless older people as well as two-thirds of those living at home did…
- Categories: Health and Population, UN Agencies