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• Spokesperson’s briefing: Guterres will convene Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders and representatives of the guarantor powers Greece, UK and Türkiye in the UN’s New York City headquarters July 16-17 ...
The United Nations Security Council is being increasingly criticized for failing to bring peace to many conflicts raging ...
Kelley Currie, US ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, has had the job since January. The Trump administration tried to eliminate the post at one point but the Senate made it permanent.
'He Is Who He Is': 4 Experts Assess the Record of the UN's António Guterres - PassBlue“Guterres has had a bad hand to play. He has been in office during the era of Donald Trump, Xi of China and Putin ...
Afghan women resisting the Taliban’s repression, above. The essayist writes that although many women judges, like her, have escaped Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of August 2021, 68 women ...
Reem Alabali-Radovan, a 31-year-old daughter of Iraqi political refugees, was elected for the first time to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, in September. She is part of a small but expanding ...
Andrew Bremberg, Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to the UN in Geneva, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 20, 2019. Aspects of his anti-abortion views, whether rape ...
Russia Brings Human Contact Back to the UN Security Council - PassBlueEvstigneeva will surely monitor the meeting closely on the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, or Minusma, scheduled for Oct. 8.
President Vladimir Putin could face a special tribunal for the crime of aggression in Ukraine. But a core group of advocates pushing for creating such a court is divided on what it should look like.
Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond, a special adviser on the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, participating in a meeting on digital technologies, November 2019. He was named the ...