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- Damilola Banjo
- • October 14, 2022
This week, we celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child amid various restrictions on and violations of girls’ rights globally. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 18, 2022
This week, we place the lens on the United Nations itself as the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine surge into the fourth week of war. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • January 7, 2022
Violence erupts in Kazakhstan; Sudan’s prime minister resigns; Norway takes the presidency of the Security Council. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue…
- Categories: This Week @UN
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 23, 2021
The images are stark: In India, Hindu widows who are considered burdens by their families are being abandoned at temples on the banks of sacred rivers. In Ethiopia, homeless older women evicted by their relatives sleep on the steps…
- Categories: Women
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 8, 2021
A new vaccine for malaria; the Security Council goes to the Sahel; the Human Rights Council’s actions, criticized and praised. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, General Assembly, Health and Population, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • August 31, 2021
As just about every expert agrees, breast milk beats formula on every score, from the health of the baby to out-of-pocket costs. But that hasn’t stopped formula makers from pushing their products, cutting deeply into breastfeeding rates around the…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, Human Rights
- Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 16, 2021
António Guterres soon will be recrowned Secretary-General after Manhattan’s five-member Electoral College, the permanent members of the Security Council, send its recommendation to the General Assembly for a ceremonial vote. In 2016, his election was an unusually transparent process…
- Categories: SDGs, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 14, 2021
Abed Al Fatah Skafi at his house in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, March 1, 2021. Skafi’s family is one of four that are being threatened with eviction in favor of Israeli settlers. Anger over Israeli treatment of Palestinians in Jerusalem have…
- Ivana Ramirez
- • May 7, 2021
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…
- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 9, 2021
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…
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 6, 2021
During more than a year of tracking the parameters of Covid-19, medical science has made one thing clear: the virus hits the elderly hardest. Yet their vulnerability is often taken as fate. A new international study disagrees. Prejudice, institutional…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, SDGs
- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 2, 2021
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…
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 6, 2021
Continuing crises in Myanmar and Ethiopia; the US envoy to the UN’s first week; why Britain has held the top humanitarian job for so long; and women’s gains in the African Union. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Ivana Ramirez
- • February 5, 2021
A coup staged in Myanmar; the UN’s first unofficial feminist dies; Aleksei Navalny’s sentencing. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from the UN spokesperson’s press…
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 27, 2021
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, appearing before a Senate committee confirmation hearing on Jan. 27 for her nomination as United States envoy to the United Nations, handled a barrage of Republican accusations that the new Biden administration and she were not tough…
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