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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 10, 2021
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Calling all world leaders to the General Assembly; the Taliban shun women; Biden’s confounding foreign policy. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and …
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 18, 2021
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The UN’s leader is sworn in for another term; Myanmar’s rapid instability; elevating the US ambassador’s profile. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting …
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 21, 2021
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Girls at a gated UN school in Gaza being used as a shelter amid the bombing by Israel in its fight against Hamas’s rocket fire. Thousands of families in Gaza have fled their homes since the conflict began on May …
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 9, 2021
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It was all over in one crucial week. Barring an unforeseen hitch, António Guterres is the clear winner of a second, five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations, beginning on Jan.1, 2022. This was not a surprise: he had …
- Categories: Latin America, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 7, 2021
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China in the United Nations’ hot seat; Guterres’s vision for another five years; the future of global cooperation; who was Anne Dragon Nezeriotis? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered …
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • April 29, 2021
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RosalÃa Arteaga, a former Ecuadorean president, is planning to enter the race to be the first woman to lead the United Nations and beat the incumbent, Secretary-General António Guterres, through a “people-backed” campaign. The announcement by the Forward campaign, a …
- Categories: General Assembly, Latin America, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 9, 2021
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The Myanmar crisis isn’t going away; global bias against older people; Vietnam leads the Security Council; Chadian peacekeepers killed and wounded in Mali. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered …
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 2, 2021
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United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken dials the UN; Mexico’s dual-personality approach to women’s rights; a deadly French airstrike on a wedding in Mali; two new applicants for secretary-general. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing …
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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • March 24, 2021
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Unless a strong candidate backed by an influential member state comes forward soon, it looks unlikely that Secretary-General António Guterres will be denied a second term and that a woman could be elected to succeed him, starting in 2022. Any …
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 19, 2021
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The Security Council gathers with President Biden; commercial surrogacy is legalized in New York State; Kamala Harris on women and democracy; a UN secretary-general aspirant meets with Canadian diplomats. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing …
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 18, 2021
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Arora Akanksha, the United Nations millennial staffer who launched her own campaign to run for secretary-general last month, held meetings with three high-level Canadian officials this week in New York City, including Canada’s ambassador to the UN, Bob Rae. Akanksha …
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 13, 2021
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The Covid-19 pandemic anniversary; digitally recruiting women to run for the United Nations’ top job; International Women’s Day, a bit of a downer. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered …
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Migration, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Simone Filippini
- • February 23, 2021
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António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, announced early last month that he would seek a second five-year term, starting in January 2022, as the organization’s highest official, “if it would be the will of the member states.” The respective presidents of …
- Categories: OPINIONS, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 12, 2021
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The US returns to the Human Rights Council; atrocities documented in the Mali conflict; a woman declares her candidacy for UN secretary-general. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information …
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • February 11, 2021
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Arora Akanksha, a 34-year-old staff member who works as an audit coordinator for the United Nations Development Program, has announced her candidacy for the job of UN secretary-general, so far the only person to challenge António Guterres, the incumbent. Guterres …
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council
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