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Quarantined and Stalked by Covid-19, UN Field Staff Live With Fear and Anxiety - PassBlueKelly Clements, the deputy high commissioner for the UN Refugee Agency and from the United States, calls the ...
For Elephants in Zimbabwe, a Deeply Troubling Present and Future - PassBlueCites has said that African elephants are not endangered, but many conservation groups disagree. Cites released statistics in ...
Secretary-General António Guterres holds a virtual press conference to promote a report on his call for a global cease-fire during the Covid-19 outbreak, April 3, 2020. A Security Council draft ...
Adams began the discussion with the unambiguous statement that development experts are “fully aware that the SDGs are seriously off track, in many, many ways.” Fukuda-Parr, who led a Committee for ...
Pulling Peacekeepers From Darfur Will Be a Murderous Mistake - PassBlueClashes between Arab and African ethnic groups erupted in West Darfur late last year, reportedly leaving at least 65 people dead ...
Sir Brian Urquhart, who spent his much of his adult life in service to the UN, speaking at the General Assembly’s commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration ...
UN Women’s executive director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ncguka, speaking at the Commission on the Status of Women’s annual meeting in March 2020, at UN headquarters. The conference had been cut to a single day ...
Posters and notes of action items on the wall at a workshop held during a conference in Gaziantep, Turkey, for Syrian women activists aiming to ease the effects of the Syrian civil war. GAZIANTEP, ...
One of several common spaces in the new Norwegian consulate and mission to the United Nations in New York, located in a high-rise building on the 35th floor, near the UN. The wood-slatted ceiling ...
While Secretary-General António Guterres held a virtual press briefing on June 25, his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, above, moderated. Guterres spoke about the 75th anniversary of the adoption of ...
The gendered nature of war, then, is common knowledge — it is to the large number of feminists who have been working on it for years; it must be to the growing number of countries (Sweden, Canada, ...
As Kenya and Djibouti Fight Over a UN Security Council Seat, China Pops Up - PassBlueDespite Djibouti’s remarks in the Security Council, Tom Amolo, Kenya’s political and diplomatic secretary of the ...