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- Opinion by Stephen Browne
- • August 22, 2022
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Individual member states have always exerted a heavy influence on the United Nations. The dominance of individual powers is the nature of multilateralism, but in the UN system it is particularly marked. The Security Council can only do its…
- Categories: Development, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 3, 2021
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It is not news that morale in the American State Department hit new lows during the Trump administration, under a president who despised and insulted the institutions and people engaged in international affairs. On Oct. 27, however, Secretary of…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 21, 2021
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Joe Biden, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21 for the first time as president of the United States, did not say again to the world that America was back. His message was that it never…
- Categories: General Assembly, UNGA76
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 3, 2021
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The UN’s priorities in Afghanistan for now; how certain multinational corporations feed on new-mothers’ fears amid Covid; Ireland’s envoy defends the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing…
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- Clair MacDougall
- • May 10, 2021
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Liberian Dr. James Soka Moses remembers the West African region’s devastating Ebola outbreak as if it were yesterday: the roaring ambulances, the patients lying on the floor and spilling outside of treatment facilities, the smell of vomit and the…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Health and Population
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • January 23, 2021
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The Sahel humanitarian crisis grows; Biden is sworn in as the 46th United States president; the nuclear ban treaty enters into force. You are reading This Week @UN, a summary of the most pressing issues facing the international organization. The information…
- Categories: Africa, Nuclear Disarmament, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • October 22, 2020
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By all accounts, 2020 has been a terrible year so far — but is it worse than 1920? In 1920, World War I, which killed 16 million people, had just ended. The two-year influenza pandemic that followed killed 50…
- Categories: General Assembly, Health and Population, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Opinion by Celso Amorim and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- • October 5, 2020
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The world order is no more. Since the beginning of this year, and with greater intensity since March, when the World Health Organization declared the spread of Covid-19 a pandemic, governments and civil societies have been grappling with a…
- Categories: Development, Governance, Health and Population, OPINIONS
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- Irwin Arieff
- • September 25, 2020
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Fake news alert: President Donald Trump said something vaguely positive about the United Nations during his speech marking the opening of this year’s General Assembly session. “God bless you all. God bless America. And God bless the United Nations,”…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN75, US-UN Relations
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- Fiona Shukri
- • June 15, 2020
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Already struggling with a surging Covid-19 pandemic, United Nations health agencies must now face the possible abdication of the United States’ leading role in fighting polio — just as the world gets tantalizingly close to eradicating it for good….
- Categories: Covid-19, US-UN Relations
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- Irwin Arieff
- • April 17, 2020
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What a difference a few weeks can make. At the end of March, Kelly Craft, President Trump’s top ambassador at the United Nations, insisted that midbattle against a dread disease sweeping the globe was no time for an international…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Kacie Candela
- • December 24, 2018
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By one measure — the chances of surviving to young adulthood — sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have the highest rates of child deaths at every stage of childhood. By contrast, the best place to be born this year…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Health and Population, Poverty
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- Opinion by Mark Shilen
- • June 27, 2017
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MOSUL, Iraq — For two weeks in early April and again in June, I was embedded in Mosul with an emergency-response division of the Iraqi army, which is fighting to retake the city from ISIS. The nonprofit organization I…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, OPINIONS, Terrorism
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- Opinion by Rolf C. Carriere
- • April 26, 2016
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ÉCHENEVEX, France — While psychological trauma affects perhaps as many as 500 million victims worldwide, and adversely impacts human and social development on a massive scale, its most devastating — but least suspected — effect may well be the…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • December 21, 2015
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Midwifery is one of the world’s most ancient vocations, its practitioners playing a prominent role dating back to the Bible. In much of the world, midwives continue to play an important role in maintaining the health of women and…
- Categories: Africa, Health and Population, SDGs, UN Agencies, Women
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