Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 17, 2017
In a bold excoriation of populist and nationalist movements now gripping many nations, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights told an audience of foreign policy experts, human-rights advocates and students of diplomacy in Washington, D.C., this week…
- Categories: Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 5, 2017
Thirty-two days in office as United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres spoke extensively to the media for the first time at UN headquarters, on Feb. 1. Indicative of the chaos gripping many parts of the world as a result of…
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 26, 2016
It was inevitable that a triumphant Republican government in Washington, D.C., would sooner or later launch an assault on the United Nations. A near-unanimous UN Security Council resolution on Dec. 23 condemning Israeli settlements on Palestinians’ land provided the…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 4, 2016
The United Nations will swear in António Guterres as its ninth secretary-general on Dec. 12, when the organization will be only weeks away from the inauguration of Donald Trump and the potentially most threatening, hostile political opposition to the…
- Categories: Special Report, UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • November 22, 2016
Hate crimes have risen dramatically in the United States since the election of Donald Trump as president on Nov. 8. The United Nations has quickly taken note, criticizing its strongest financial and moral supporter, America. “Recent reports of hate…
- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, US-UN Relations
- Joanne Myers
- • September 14, 2016
As the special envoy to the United Nations secretary-general on international migration since 2006, Peter Sutherland, an Irishman, has minced few words on the topic of people leaving their homes in search of better lives. In his role at…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees, UN Special Envoys
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 8, 2016
In Baton Rouge, La., Silky Slim has implored the United Nations to pay attention to what he calls the “hypocrisy” of the United States regarding the treatment of some of its own citizens, African-Americans. In fact, several UN officials…
- Categories: Human Rights, Security Council, Uncategorized, US-UN Relations
- A. Edward Elmendorf
- • July 3, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Nations Human Rights Council, the highest organ exclusively responsible for human rights in the world body, is now 10 years old. It recently received concentrated attention here in the United States capital. Such concerted…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 23, 2016
It has been almost a year since a sweeping assessment of United Nations peacekeeping operations by experts recommended significant changes from top to bottom: a reformed hierarchy in New York and greater coordination and discipline among military contingents in…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Raymond A. Smith
- • December 8, 2015
Several major breakthroughs in the promotion of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have occurred through United Nations mechanisms. From the worldwide multimedia Free & Equal campaign to LGBT-related resolutions and reports in the…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Clothilde Le Coz
- • October 11, 2015
PHNOM PENH — Accused of organizing an “insurrection” last year, nearly a dozen Parliament ministers from the political opposition were sentenced to prison terms from 7 to 20 years by a Phnom Penh court this summer. The charge stemmed…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights
- Rhona Scullion
- • July 3, 2015
DUNDEE, Scotland — Soon after the newly elected Conservative government in Britain was installed in May, it announced plans to repeal the country’s Human Rights Act with a new Bill of Rights. Advocates of the policy maintain this is…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Claudia Arbizu de Lavagnino
- • June 17, 2015
El Salvador is one of the most violent and dangerous countries in the world. It is so difficult a place to live that tens of thousands of migrants have been taking El Tren de la Muerte, or The Train…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
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