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- Arthur Bassas
- • September 24, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming out of the organization. This week, world leaders descended on New York City for the opening debate of the 78th session of the General Assembly. It attracted …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, General Assembly, Latin America, SDGs, Ukraine-Russia War, UNGA78
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- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • September 21, 2023
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‘Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is’: Financing the SDGs —Â The poor progress of the Sustainable Development Goals continued to be a common theme through the middle of the General Assembly high-level week. On Wednesday, heads of state, ministers …
- Categories: Asia, Development, SDGs, UNGA78
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- Opinion by Natalie Samarasinghe
- • February 22, 2023
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Inaction on climate. The grossly unequal response to Covid-19. Bailing out banks instead of helping the least-developed countries. The different and disproportionate approaches to conflicts in Africa and the Middle East. The failure to prevent atrocities in Palestine, Myanmar, Sri …
- Categories: General Assembly, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
- • September 22, 2022
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Many African leaders who spoke at the United Nations General Assembly so far seem to all want the same thing: a permanent seat at the Security Council table. “Africa has waited long enough and will not wait any longer,” Ali …
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Security Council, Terrorism
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- Damilola Banjo
- • July 7, 2022
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Brazil will try to push for a softening of global sanctions on Russia to free up essential food supplies and ease access to fertilizers internationally. Ambassador Ronaldo Costa, the country’s permanent representative to the United Nations, hinted at such action …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Security Council Presidency, UN Peacekeeping
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 2, 2022
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The lack of accountability on a range of human-rights abuses and atrocities committed by countries and others across the world will be highlighted during Albania’s first open debate as rotating president of the United Nations Security Council this month. Prime …
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 12, 2021
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PassBlue probes the global body granting licenses to mine the deep seas; UN staff detained in Ethiopia; global famine rises. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
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- Opinion by Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 16, 2021
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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: OPINIONS, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Maiara Folly
- • August 12, 2020
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RIO DE JANEIRO — This year marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. Amid the major economic and geopolitical effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is a time to reflect on the successes and failures of the UN system, …
- Categories: Climate Change, Governance, Human Rights, Latin America, SDGs
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 18, 2020
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There are about two billion young children in the world today, ranging from infancy to 14 years old, and most of them live in developing nations in the global south. That is also where the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading the fastest. …
- Categories: Covid-19, Development, Education, Secretary-General
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- Frank Vogl
- • May 28, 2020
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Fears abound as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the poorer nations of the world, not only about appalling levels of death and economic depression but also about criminal opportunism. Never before have agencies in the United Nations system, the International …
- Categories: Covid-19
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 5, 2019
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Two months after leaving the United Nations, Nikki Haley has assembled a political network that is laying the groundwork for a possible presidential run in 2024, or even in 2020 — should her mentor Donald Trump not run. The best …
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 6, 2019
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Poverty’s companions — hunger, malnutrition and recurring sickness — do not have to be the inevitable fate of people in low-income countries, the World Bank said in a recent report. But from national governments to farmers to market stallholders and …
- Categories: Health and Population, SDGs, Take a Look
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 18, 2018
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Today and every day around the world, in bleak rural villages and the poorest urban neighborhoods, millions of people are igniting small fires to cook their meager meals, brighten dark homes or scare away intruders at night. The number of …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change
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- Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • December 7, 2017
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GENEVA — Change is in the air again on First Avenue. Among numerous reform options being bandied about, none will be more consequential than those on financing the United Nations system. There are the sledgehammer arguments: drastic slashes in funding …
- Categories: UN Agencies
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