women’s rights

• May 13, 2022

This week, we focus on how the UN is further rallying support to combat the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the widespread condemnation against the killing of Al Jazeera’s reporter in Palestine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, …

General Assembly, Human Rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN

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Trending UN News: Week Ending May 6

Damilola Banjo

• May 6, 2022

This week, we report on the UN secretary-general’s Sahel region trip as he took the message of global peace and security to Niger, Nigeria and Senegal, and the momentous evacuation of civilians from Mariupol, Ukraine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from …

Africa, This Week @UN

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Trending UN News: Week Ending April 29

Damilola Banjo

• April 29, 2022

This week, reporting on the UN’s efforts to help evacuate people still trapped in Mariupol as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine heads into its 10th week. So far, the UN hasn’t revealed any progress on its humanitarian corridor goal as the mayor of Mariupol pleads desperately for the city to be rescued. You are reading …

Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN

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How’s Guterres Doing? B-, Says One Report Card From a Feminist Group

Emma Beilouny

• April 25, 2022

The Washington-based Feminist UN Campaign has been grading the performance of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres since 2017. And he’s not exactly excelling. The group’s 2021 report card gave him a big B-. In 2020, he at least earned a solid but boring B. Guterres’s performance declined in four areas, the campaign said: development …

Human Rights, LGBT, SDGs, Secretary-General

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Trending UN News: Week Ending April 22

Damilola Banjo

• April 22, 2022

This week, the focus stays glued to Ukraine while a flicker of hope emerges in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, where children are getting new malaria vaccines. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This …

Climate Change, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN

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WOMEN AS CHANGEMAKERS

Meet Comfort Ero, the First Black Woman to Lead the International Crisis Group

Damilola Banjo

• April 3, 2022

Comfort Ero knew that her appointment as the president and chief executive of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank working to prevent wars, would be arduous. But taking up the role in December, two months before Russia invaded Ukraine, is not exactly what she envisaged. “It is a reminder of what it …

Africa, General Assembly, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women as Changemakers

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Trending UN News: Week Ending March 25

Damilola Banjo

• March 25, 2022

This week, the focus is on the humanitarian disasters from wars and violence around the world. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, we bring you insights from the Houthis’ attack on …

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Trending UN News: Week Ending March 18

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 organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting, and other sources. This …

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WORLDVIEWS

Will Ukraine Bury Feminist Foreign Policies or Will It Reveal Their Power?

Yasmine Ergas

• March 9, 2022

Mothers appeal to mothers. Who doesn’t understand the power of women speaking to women about fear for their children? We listen as young women — parliamentarians, government ministers — who are staying to defend their country and denounce the insufficiencies of allies’ support. Who doesn’t perceive that their authority is enhanced because their decision …

Gender Violence, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS

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WOMEN AS CHANGEMAKERS

Rebeca Grynspan: No Woman Will Be Marginalized at Unctad

Barbara Crossette

• March 8, 2022

Rebeca Grynspan, the first woman and first Latin American to lead the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, has a lot of work to do. The organization, founded in 1964 as a standing committee, now has 195 member nations. It meets quadrennially to tackle major economic concerns of developing countries while offering daily …

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SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENCY

After Abstaining on a Vote Condemning Russia’s Invasion, the UAE Leads the Security Council

Stéphanie Fillion

• March 3, 2022

The last time the United Arab Emirates was elected to the Security Council, in 1986, the country was only 15 years old, and Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, the current UAE ambassador to the United Nations, was just 7. Since then she has seen her country, a Persian Gulf monarchy comprising seven emirates, evolve into a …

Human Rights, Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Estonia’s Leader Stands Out as She Grapples With Europe’s Crisis

Barbara Crossette

• March 2, 2022

Prime Minister Kaja Kallas of Estonia, a small Baltic nation with a tragic history of living with Russia, has become a leading European voice demanding that no breathing space or second chances be given to Vladimir Putin as his troops run into unexpected fierce resistance from Ukrainians. It’s a war that is riveting the …

Peace and Security, Women

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Meanwhile in Afghanistan, Women Are Suffering Needlessly This Winter

Sally Anne Corcoran

• February 15, 2022

As girls are being sold in the streets of Kabul, the Norwegian government flew in the Taliban and people from Afghan civil society into Oslo to talk to one another and with Western diplomats. While United Nations agencies have warned repeatedly that 22 million Afghans face acute hunger, the Taliban regime flirts with legitimacy …

Asia, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS

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Trending UN News: Week Ending Feb. 11

Anna Bianca Roach

• February 11, 2022

An assassination attempt on Libya’s interim prime minister; investigating the UN’s climate finance apparatus; the Guernica tapestry returns to 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 reporting and other sources. This week, learn why the …

Africa, Asia, Secretary-General, This Week @UN

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Nigeria’s Champion of Maternal and Child Health

Damilola Banjo

• January 19, 2022

It was the death in childbirth of a dear friend that spurred Adepeju Jaiyeoba, then a young lawyer in Lagos, Nigeria, to take action. It was 2011, and 978 out of every 100,000 Nigerian women — 40,000 a year — were dying from complications during childbirth. Recalling her friend recently, Jaiyeoba said: “She was …