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This Week @UN: Trump’s big Iran failures; dual citizenships in SecGen race; more “policy profiles” of SG candidates; IOM’s role in US deportations; keeping HQ’s lights on. Plus: Israel shrinks Gaza; progress ending the “inhumane”death penalty; AI warnings; Russia clobbers …
This Week @UN: UN office leaves Geneva’s Palais Wilson; SecGen-race backroom deals; Pact for the Future’s future. Plus: Shouting match; climate leadership; Costa Rica’s anti-hate steps; Venezuela’s quakes; sailor rescue in Strait of Hormuz paused; carry on, Keir Starmer. Did …
This Week @UN: Racing to bankruptcy; 2 SecGen hopefuls grilled; Armenia prefers Europe over Russia. Plus: US-Iran peace plan; Haiti solidarity trip; excluding women from peace talks; Sudan atrocity risk; no calm in Lebanon; happy Juneteenth. Did someone forward this …
This Week @UN: The latest UN SecGen candidate; football/soccer diplomacy; anti-gang force lands in Haiti; US-China summit’s meaning for the UN. Plus: False ceasefire in Lebanon; Ebola outbreak in Congo & Uganda; Rubio calls Guterres; Israeli breaches of UN property; …
This Week @UN: Trump’s faltering Afrikaner program; women’s disability rights in Saudi Arabia; NPT-review marathon. Plus: US money for “lifesaving” aid; the UN grows in Nairobi; Guterres’s “great emotion” for Africa; a new woman UN Sec-Gen candidate; Somalia’s famine risk. …
This Week @UN: UN aid “reset”; upcoming SecGen candidate debates; crucial peacekeeping in South Sudan. Plus: Praising US-Iran talks; Trump’s Pope-bashing; UN envoy in Riyadh & Oman; peacenik Pope; World Bank “borrowers’ platform”; Lebanon breathes; ICJ’s birthday. Follow us on …
As the global humanitarian sector grapples with the fallout from sweeping aid cuts imposed in 2025 by the United States administration of Donald Trump and other major donors, a United Nations plan to “reset” the system, unveiled a year ago, …
The United States has nominated Luke Lindberg, the undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs in the Department of Agriculture, to lead the Rome-based World Food Program, the largest humanitarian agency globally. Lindberg, who lives in South Dakota, most recently …
This Week @UN: Finances of SecGen race; Mideast wars’ toll on kids; “the gravest crime against humanity”; glass ceiling/glass cliff. Plus: Crushing Lebanon; new envoy goes to Khartoum; a new Mideast envoy; helping Cuba; UN SecGen upsets; Strait of Hormuz …
This Week @UN: Fixing e-waste economies; US cuts counterextremism funding; UN Security Council’s doubts about Trump’s Board of Peace. Plus: Gaza/West Bank miseries; Jesse Jackson @UN; Board of Peace debut; defending Francesca Albanese; more Epstein “atrocities”; AI dignity; 1 country/4 …
This Week @UN: UK’s women’s rights agenda; battling for a woman SecGen; Board of Peace’s only Palestinian woman. Plus: West Bank encroachments; South Sudan’s volatility; Ukraine’s front line; France lashes out; Haiti’s gang recruitments; #1 olive oil producer. • Stay …
This Week @UN: Trump to UN: Drop Dead; a female/feminist SecGen; a UN-merger risk. Plus: Gaza/West Bank/Israel; Holocaust remembrance; UN-Haiti updates; Guterres’s priorities in 2026; UN death spiral. Follow us in real time on Blue Sky, Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram …
This Week @UN: A crimes against humanity treaty; Latvia finds its voice; Israel’s UN attack; UN pension review; Gazans adapt to South Africa. Plus: Trump & Gaza; UNDP relos; Greenland/Denmark; Microsoft’s AI push; Syria’s Al Hol camp. Stay current (& …
This Week @UN: Fighting for postwar justice; European backlash on human rights; the case against military growth; where are the SecGen candidates? Plus: Rage in Iran; Myanmar clashes; Guterres’s final priorities; Trumpland v Greenland; US Board of Peace; UK hoopla. …
Türkiye has been providing financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) since its founding in 1949. The country is now preparing to host the agency’s fifth liaison office, in …



