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Trending UN News: Week Ending Nov. 26
Volunteers for the Netherlands Red Cross, above, help support the staff in their work to combat Covid-19 in the field. The volunteers are often the
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UN Recognition of the Myanmar Junta Will Hurt the World Body’s Moral Credibility
A powerful but secretive United Nations General Assembly committee is scheduled to meet soon and possibly decide whether to officially recognize the
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Action to Protect Older Women’s Rights Has Stalled in the UN General Assembly
Frances Zainoeddin of the International Federation on Ageing bemoaned the slow gains made by the United Nations General Assembly to ensure the legal
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As Germany’s Parliament Grows More Diverse, Will the Trend Spread to the Rest of Europe?
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
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Trending UN News: Week Ending Nov. 19
PassBlue was recently sent an unsolicited email by a chemistry teacher named Wahida Zalmai, who wrote that she lived in Kunduz Province in
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Gender Parity in the UN’s Human-Rights Treaty Bodies Is Sorely Lacking
Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Sept. 13, 2021. The essayists suggest that one way to remedy the huge
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Celia Umenza Risks Her Life to Defend the Rights of Indigenous People in Colombia
Celia Umenza, a leading Indigenous advocate for the Nasa people in the northern Cauca region of Colombia, told the United Nations Security Council on
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COP26 President Fights Back Tears as the Summit Ends
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiating team and Alok Sharma, right, president of COP26, Nov. 14, 2021. The pact
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Further Souring of Ethiopian-UN Relations; Deep-Sea Mining Dangers; Polish-Belarusian Standoff
Approximately 5,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from the Middle East and including pregnant women, are stranded at the Belarus-Poland border,
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How ‘Data Poisoning’ Poses New Challenges for the UN’s Peace and Security Agenda
The essayist describes how “adversarial data manipulation is the nuclear weapon of the 21st century,” and why the United Nations Security Council
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Who Is the World’s Greatest Climate Champion?
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and a delegation of fellow Congressional Democrats held a press conference
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Mexico’s President Says the UN Should ‘Wake Up From Its Slumber’ to End Global Poverty
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico and rotating president of the United Nations Security Council for November, chairing a Security
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The Obscure Organization Powering a Race to Mine the Bottom of the Seas
The secretary-general of the International Seabed Authority, Michael Lodge, Feb. 21, 2020. As corporate and national interests in seafloor mining
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Spoilers of Peace in Yemen; COP26’s First Week; Morale Boosting by Blinken
Hobnobbing, from left: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany; and Liz Truss, Britain’s foreign minister, during the
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Afghan Women Must Be Central to Decision-Making on Global Aid to the Country
A photograph in an Oct. 31 tweet by an Afghan, @T_a_h_mina, saying it was “Day 44 of Taliban ban on girls returning to secondary school in