USAID
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • August 25, 2021
When Guatemala’s Attorney General Consuelo Porras recently removed the anticorruption leader Juan Francisco Sandoval from his post as the special prosecutor against impunity, her action ended the last semblance of prosecutorial independence generated by one of the most successful…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Migration, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
- Ellen Tolmie
- • August 9, 2021
Jockeying for Unicef’s next executive director is well underway, after the July 13 announcement by its current head, Henrietta Fore, that she is leaving before the year’s end. She is going because of a family health emergency and well…
- Categories: UN Agencies, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 25, 2020
The naming of Jonathan Moore, a senior United States Foreign Service officer, to the position of Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, signals that in the United Nations’ 75th year, the Trump administration is getting serious. The…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US-UN Relations
- Jeffrey Laurenti
- • February 11, 2019
In the fall — before the caravan, before the firings, before the shutdown, before the wall — Melania Trump concluded her first solo goodwill tour with a photogenic visit to the Great Pyramid and Sphinx of Egypt, the only…
- Categories: UN Agencies, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 17, 2015
Before this year ends, the United Nations will have committed itself and its 193 member governments to a new 15-year development strategy to be hailed as a blueprint for ending poverty, expanding social justice and strengthening equality. Equality for…
- Categories: Development, LGBT, SDGs
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 26, 2015
Tony Pipa has been named the principal United States negotiator for the United Nations post-2015 development agenda, also known as the Sustainable Development Goals, which are being written and finalized this year to replace the soon-expiring Millennium Development Goals….
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 27, 2014
Can a bill languishing in the United States Congress make a difference to half the people of a country more than 7,500 miles away? Yes, said Wangechi Wachira-Moegi, the executive director of an organization in Nairobi, Kenya, that works…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Christina Juan
- • September 11, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Democratic Republic of the Congo is riddled with negative media attention. In the midst of virtually persistent conflict in eastern Congo since 1993, what goes on far away in Kinshasa, the capital of this massive…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 22, 2013
With the world population now growing faster than predicted only two years ago by the United Nations Population Division, a campaign to make family planning and the wider provision of contraceptives higher priorities in foreign aid policy after years…
- Categories: Africa, Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 12, 2013
No group in the global population has more at stake after the Millennium Development Goals‘ deadline of 2015 than children and young people. That would seem obvious, but predictions vary widely on what kind of a world these young…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Health and Population
THIS WEEK'S MOST POPULAR
UN-SCRIPTED, PASSBLUE'S UN PODCAST SERIES
