Unwra
- Thalif Deen
- • August 5, 2019
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which has been undermined by a sharp cut in United States contributions, has been embroiled in a scandal that threatens to jeopardize its very future. A report from the agency’s Ethics Office…
- Categories: Middle East, Secretary-General, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 27, 2018
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The European Union, Germany, Norway, Ireland and Kuwait stepped in this week to donate a total of $118 million in financing to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa), after the…
- Categories: Climate Change, Geopolitics, Middle East, Refugees, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • September 6, 2018
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It is entirely the United States’ prerogative to cut off its voluntary contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or Unrwa. In her statements about why the Trump administration has decided…
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • July 3, 2018
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It’s a poor workman who blames his tools, a popular French proverb cautions. But that’s just what Ambassador Nikki Haley has been doing in trying to justify Washington’s exit from the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council. Haley has…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations