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Peacekeeping in the Central African Republic Survives Washington’s Ax

The United Nations Security Council renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic on ...
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Justice Begins Within: For Greece, the UN’s Internal Courts Are Its Own Rule of Law

The UN General Assembly is to elect new judges to the organization’s Dispute and Appeals Tribunal, respectively, on Nov. 17.
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Women Who Manage Climate Disasters Are Generally the Last to Get Funding

Climate change is widening the gender gap. It is erasing decades of hard-won progress for gender equality. Most people ...
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US Pushes to Lift UN Sanctions Against Syria’s Leader ASAP

“Decides that Ahmed al-Sharaa, included on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List as Ahmad Hussain Al-Sharaa (QDi.317) ...
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How US-UAE Ties Weaken Washington’s Voice on Sudan

United States President Trump may want to see a ceasefire in Sudan, but Washington’s close ties with the United Arab Emirates ...
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From Gaza to Syria, US Makes New Moves in the UN Security Council

On the Gaza front, Waltz of the US convened a private meeting on Nov. 5 at the US mission to the UN to rally support for a new Security Council draft resolution meant to stabilize the Palestinian ...
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Small Nation, Big Dreams: Sierra Leone Learns Tough Lessons in the Security Council

Sierra Leone came to the United Nations Security Council ready to change the system. Instead, it found itself learning just how resistant the system is to change. The small West African country took ...
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Feminist Foreign Policies Are Fighting for Their Life

According to the report, “Well-funded anti-rights opposition movements that are polarizing politics and sweeping elections around the globe, claiming a number of feminist foreign policy governments in ...
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[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More

• Results of PassBlue’s Survey: ‘Vote for the Next UN Secretary-General’, by PassBlue. Michelle Bachelet, ex-two-time president of Chile, won the informal readers’ poll. The results were reported ...
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It Happened at the UN: Week Ending July 4

It Happened at the UN: Week Ending July 4 - PassBlueFourth of July fireworks, viewed from Brooklyn, N.Y., near the East River. When the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, in 1776 ...
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The UN Program That the US Likes

A Nigerian police officer demonstrating a manual search drill to locate explosive ordnance as part of IED disposal training in Borno state in the country’s northeast, the epicenter of the continuing ...
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The UN Headquarters Says Adiós to Single-Use Plastic

At an entrance to the UN headquarters in New York, Indonesian diplomats passing one of the many signs, including some sterner than others, announcing the ban on single-use plastic in the UN dining ...