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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2022
Nations of the world have taken giant steps in recent decades to build international structures and strengthen institutions to deal with mass human-rights abusers. At almost every stage, Navi Pillay, a South African lawyer, was there, advancing the rights…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 29, 2021
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs lost control over how the International Peace Institute, a New York City think tank formerly financed by Norway, spent the money, an investigation by the country’s Office of the Auditor General found. The…
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 13, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic anniversary; digitally recruiting women to run for the United Nations’ top job; International Women’s Day, a bit of a downer. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Migration, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2019
A familiar refrain often heard when the burgeoning crisis in Kashmir rises to the top of the news is that this is an old story from long ago; we have moved on. The United Nations is discovering, however, that…
- Categories: Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 22, 2018
In the middle of last week, when the Trump administration was still unable to say how it “lost” more than 2,500 children torn from their asylum-seeking parents at the border with Mexico, Nikki Haley, the United States envoy to…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • June 26, 2018
There is a crisis in the United Nations human-rights system. Secretary-General António Guterres can lead the way out of it. Indeed, the world continues to look to the UN secretary-general to stand up for the principles of the organization….
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 7, 2018
For almost three centuries, through street protests, court battles and a civil war, the United States has sporadically but steadily advanced and expanded human-rights protections and commitments in domestic and foreign policies. Now Donald Trump and the most conservative,…
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 21, 2018
After a year of bombast and threats by Ambassador Nikki Haley and the ever-evolving Donald Trump administration, the tone appears to be turned down a few notches in the second year of the Trump presidency. But efforts to undermine…
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 1, 2018
The 2018 winter session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was marked more by what didn’t happen than what did. There was still no official announcement in Geneva from the Trump administration about whether the United States would leave…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 31, 2017
Nearly three years ago, Megan Nobert, a humanitarian worker in South Sudan, was drugged and raped by an employee of a United Nations agency, according to her account, made public six months later. That was when Nobert decided to…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Humanitarian Aid, Take a Look
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 17, 2017
Palestinian causes in the United Nations are gaining wider and more active support in the Arab and Islamic worlds in light of Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, in defiance of global opinion and decades of UN…
- Julie Vanderperre
- • July 20, 2017
As political instability, conflicts and migration proliferate across the world, technology has become a potential solution for identifying and predicting human-rights violations, which play a major role instigating upheavals. Smartphones enable instant updates and eyewitness accounts of events happening…
- Categories: Human Rights
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 6, 2017
In a much-anticipated series of speeches in Geneva on June 6, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, would not say whether a decision had been made by the Trump administration about US membership in the…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 18, 2017
Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, presided over what she was determined to sell as “an historic meeting exclusively on human rights” in the UN Security Council. But her brief speech in the April 18…
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 4, 2017
With White House proposals to slash United States assessments and donations to international organizations now in play in the writing of a federal budget for 2018 — as an April 28 deadline approaches — the extent of potential losses…
- Categories: Take a Look, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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