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This Week @UN: African Union snubs Macky Sall; Bachelet & Grossi open SecGen race dialogues, followed by Grynspan & Sall; Guterres’s Hormuz plan stalled. Plus: More peacekeepers killed in Lebanon; shifting, dangerous migration routes; IDF desecrate statue of Jesus; child …
The two-day informal interactive dialogues organized by Annalena Baerbock, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, wrapped up on April 22 with a three-hour session with Rebeca Grynspan in the morning, followed by Macky Sall in the afternoon. He, …
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has yet to win full buy-in for his daring proposal to secure safe passage for vessels ferrying fertilizer and other agriproducts through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. The initiative, announced on 27 March, would involve …
The United Nations General Assembly’s debut “dialogues” with the four candidates vying so far for secretary-general kicked off on April 21, lasting all day with two of the contenders, Michelle Bachelet and Rafael Grossi. Each fielded three hours of interactive …
Macky Sall, a former Senegalese president, is continuing to meet with countries bilaterally to shore up support for his candidacy for the top position at the United Nations even as an endorsement from the African Union, or AU, remains out …
This Week @UN: UN aid “reset”; upcoming SecGen candidate debates; crucial peacekeeping in South Sudan. Plus: Praising US-Iran talks; Trump’s Pope-bashing; UN envoy in Riyadh & Oman; peacenik Pope; World Bank “borrowers’ platform”; Lebanon breathes; ICJ’s birthday. Follow us on …
This Week @UN: UN80’s shortcomings; Grynspan guns for SecGen; gender entities merger?; World Food Program nominee. Plus: Diplomatic steps in Sudan; Trump’s apocalypse now; how 3 Indonesian peacekeepers died; Mideast ceasefire; no letup in Lebanon; elephants galore. • Did someone …
The push to consolidate the two United Nations’ agencies dedicated to women’s rights and reproductive health has produced a formal path for their merger. An initial assessment done under the UN80 Initiative, the systemwide reform plan to make the world …
This Week @UN: Where’s the Haiti force?; Mamdani stops by; Bahrain endures US-Israeli/Iran war. Plus: 3 peacekeepers killed in South Lebanon; UNRWA boss moves on; UN envoy for Sudan’s listening tour; new SecGen candidate?; new UN envoy for Mideast heads …
Bahrain, a small island country situated between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the Mideast, with a population of under two million, is walking a diplomatic tightrope to secure the backing of the United Nations Security Council on a draft text …
Thousands of Americans, including young students, are one part of the million visitors that the United Nations receives annually, and Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of the host city of the 80-year-old organization, joined the pack with the boss of the …
This Week @UN: Finances of SecGen race; Mideast wars’ toll on kids; “the gravest crime against humanity”; glass ceiling/glass cliff. Plus: Crushing Lebanon; new envoy goes to Khartoum; a new Mideast envoy; helping Cuba; UN SecGen upsets; Strait of Hormuz …
The United Nations is stepping into the multifront war in the Mideast as threats to global food security mount due to the virtual closure of one of the world’s most-critical maritime chokepoints, a month into the United States-Israeli attacks on …
The 1 for 8 Billion nongovernmental organization has campaigned for financial transparency and declarations of conflicts of interest in the United Nations secretary-general selection process since the group’s launching in 2014. The need for financial disclosures from UN senior staff …
This Week @UN: ‘Gender’ definition survives US attack; UN SecGen candidate’s day job; civil society’s shrinking space; Michelle Bachelet on saving humanity. Plus: Strait of Hormuz diplomacy?; Afghanistan/Pakistan truce; Cuba’s humanitarian squeeze; RIP Nicholas Haysom; peace ops in Lebanon under …
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