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- Dawn Clancy
- • February 23, 2023
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On the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale brutal war in Ukraine, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution demanding that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally” withdraw its military forces from Ukraine; called for a “cessation…
- Categories: General Assembly, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Kourosh Ziabari
- • February 13, 2023
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As the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is fast approaching, a draft resolution is circulating among the United Nations’ 193 countries emphasizing the need for a “just and lasting peace” for Ukraine, while Western diplomats are…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Opinion by Kateryna Rashevska
- • December 26, 2022
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KYIV — During its eight years of aggression against Ukraine, Russia has systematically pursued a policy of eradicating Ukrainian identity among children in the occupied territories. Deportation, separation from parents, transfer to Russian families, imposition of citizenship, Russification and…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Dawn Clancy
- • December 20, 2022
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For months, Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, alongside Christian Wenaweser, Liechtenstein’s envoy, have been leading an effort at the UN to produce a draft resolution to support the notion of establishing an international tribunal to prosecute…
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- Damilola Banjo
- • October 21, 2022
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This week, a United Nations agency released a damning report on how plastics are damaging our world and harming the people in it. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • November 30, 2018
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The recent attack by a militia on the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in which seven peacekeepers were killed, highlighted a question that the Security Council has hesitated to confront for years. What are the consequences when UN peacekeeping…
- Categories: Africa, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 16, 2018
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In a year in which swaths of territory were liberated in Iraq and Syria from the grip of ISIS, enabling the release of women and girls and others from the extremists, the United Nations’ annual report on conflict-related sexual…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, Peace and Security, Refugees
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- Irwin Arieff
- • May 13, 2017
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It is widely believed that the Allied powers were in the dark about the “final solution” — the Nazi campaign to exterminate Europe’s Jews — until the discovery of the death camps, strewn with corpses and emaciated inmates, at…
- Categories: BOOKS, Human Rights, International Justice
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- Opinion by Shanti Sattler
- • May 28, 2014
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LONDON — Crimes of sexual violence consistently result from large-scale conflict and war around the world. Rape and enforced prostitution, among other gender-based crimes, are used as a tool to enhance violence and domination and to spread fear among…
- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Navi Pillay
- • November 4, 2013
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There is now overwhelming evidence that conflicts exacerbate pre-existing gender discrimination and put women and girls at heightened risk of sexual, physical and psychological violence. One appalling example of this evidence is the report recently to the Human…
- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 14, 2012
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Thomas Lubanga, the Congolese militant accused of war crimes by recruiting child soldiers under age 15 to fight in conflicts in the eastern region of his country, has been found guilty of the war crimes by a three-judge chamber…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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