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- Damilola Banjo
- • July 15, 2022
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This week, we focus on the rising number of armed children in conflicts in Africa’s Sahel region and how fake news, misinformation and disinformation are hurting peacekeeping worldwide. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues…
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- Mona Ali Khalil
- • April 9, 2020
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VIENNA — Since moving to Austria in 2018, I have enjoyed the comparably high standard of living and relatively low cost of living that the city offers. As a foreigner, I feel at home in this beautiful city, which…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Health and Population, Security Council
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- Kayla Stewart
- • February 12, 2020
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KETE KRACHI, Ghana — To smoke a fish here, you need to first remove its skull. Then you insert a sharp knife into its stomach, slowly cutting a clean line across its belly to avoid flooding your hand with…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking
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- Opinion by Joanne Csete
- • April 14, 2016
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“A drug-free world — we can do it!” was the tragically misguided slogan of the last major United Nations summit on drug control in 1998. UN member states will soon come together in the General Assembly, from April 19…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 15, 2014
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Until recently, José Ramos-Horta led the United Nations’ peace-building mission in Guinea-Bissau, stepping in a year and a half ago as the country reeled from a coup in 2012 and the UN’s former chief there, Joseph Mutaboba, quit his job…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Peace and Security
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 5, 2014
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Confirming recent findings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States and other agencies around the world, the United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime said in its annual report that new synthetic drugs, sometime…
- Categories: Health and Population, UN Agencies
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 26, 2014
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An unusual survey of 3,400 people worldwide who know the United Nations has found strong support for some basic rethinking over the next decade on the organization’s work in development. Among the recommendations, over two-thirds of respondents suggested adding…
- Categories: Development
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- Clothilde Le Coz
- • December 4, 2013
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PHNOM PENH — Kunthear Laut, a 33-year-old Cambodian woman, is a child of marital rape and a victim of two rapes as well as three attempts and at least five years of incest from her uncle. “AÂ woman has…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Women
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