Chris Gunness
Chris Gunness is director of the UK-based Myanmar Accountability Project and has been reporting on Myanmar since the 1980s. Additionally, he was UNRWA’s Director of Communications from 2007 to 2020.
Even as a major earthquake struck Myanmar last week, killing thousands of people, and as powerful aftershocks shook huge swathes of the country, the Burmese junta air force was flying over Sagaing, the epicenter of the disaster, dropping bombs on …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Security Council
In his latest affront to the United Nations system and international law, Israel’s UN ambassador wrote to Secretary-General António Guterres on Jan. 24, saying that UNRWA “must cease its operations in Jerusalem, and evacuate all premises in which it operates …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, OPINIONS, Refugees
The United Nations General Assembly will soon make a decision that will affect the lives of 55 million people in Myanmar and could influence the fate of their nation as it stands at a crucial crossroad. This week, as the …
- Categories: General Assembly, Myanmar, OPINIONS, Security Council
The battle is on to grab the Myanmar seat at the United Nations in New York City, a hugely significant prize as the junta wages a campaign for diplomatic recognition. Nonrecognition of the regime is crucial right now, because recognizing …
- Categories: Myanmar, OPINIONS, UN Diplomats




