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Welcome to This Week @UN: UK’s Gaza “rhetoric”; Somalia’s civil war recovery; special envoy to the rescue; UNRWA’s “darkest hour.” Plus: DPRK; Lebanon; Trump; starvations; bulldozing peacekeepers. We’re enormously pleased to report that our annual NewsMatch campaign is in full …
- Arthur Bassas
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Racism at the UN; Sudanese civilian deaths; nuclear war effects; Israel’s genocidal intent. Plus: North Korea; Ukraine; UNRWA; Lebanon; polio/Gaza. Hundreds of readers donate to our NewsMatch campaign every year, and today we begin the …
- Arthur Bassas
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Every year, the leaders of the G20, the largest 20 economies of the globe, meet on a rotating schedule in a major city or capital. This November, Brazil will host the main leaders summit, so it arranged all the side …
Hundreds of cluster munitions have been used on Ukrainian territory since the full-scale war began in February 2022 as countries across the world have continuously condemned their deployment. Now it appears that the munitions the United States is sending to …
- Arthur Bassas
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For the disarmament agenda to progress, its machinery needs to be revisited. Current efforts by the Conference on Disarmament — the United Nations body tasked with negotiating treaties on weapons control — have stalled for almost 30 years because agreement …
This week, we look at Russia’s continued degradation of the UN Security Council as rotating president in April while it wages illegal war on Ukraine; and a c’est la vie shrug from the UN spokesperson on reports of the United …
- Dulcie Leimbach
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Beatrice Fihn, a 40-year-old Swede, grew up wanting to make a big difference in humanity, but she did not know how she could do that. First, she thought she would “stitch people up” after they suffered an accident or make …
- Damilola Banjo
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The annual debate of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly ended on Sept. 29, after a weeklong screening of prerecorded video speeches by 190 member states. The numbers were impressive: videos by 102 heads of state, 1 vice …
- Dulcie Leimbach
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VIENNA, Austria — Ensconced near the Danube River in this European city is the headquarters of the world’s single-most important means of ensuring safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear energy. Created in 1957, four years after United States President …
Good things take time. Evidently, 10 years of advocacy efforts led by a group of Nobel laureates and an international nongovernmental organization campaign, five years of consultations and preparatory work and a month of negotiations at the United Nations in …
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