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This year’s 68th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs opened a door for a conversation that could get the world to rethink how to deal with drugs. Member states passed a resolution on March 14, 2025, calling for an …
The United Nations is facing its greatest financial crisis since the organization’s founding at the end of World War II. The effectiveness and efficiency of the UN system is under unprecedented scrutiny. While there has been talk of reform for …
Confidential documents reveal the political ideologies of those behind the controversial survey distributed to organizations in Geneva recently. Meanwhile, unease grows in Geneva, as the UN Refugee Agency considers laying off up to 6,000 employees. The questionnaire sent by the …
- Stephane Bussard
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Displaced Gazans who are returning to the devastated scenes in the north face risk of getting killed or injured by unexploded munitions dropped in the area during the 15-month massive military operation led by Israel Defense Forces against the Hamas …
- Damilola Banjo
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The members of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee largely agreed that their country’s nominee as ambassador to the United Nations must be ready to check the perceived expansionist agenda from both China and Russia in the world body. …
- Damilola Banjo
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Bombs, bullets and the suffocating weight of bodies trapped under slabs of fallen concrete where houses once stood are just a few reasons the death toll in Gaza is still soaring. But recently, contaminated water paired with an overwhelmed sanitation …
- Dawn Clancy
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CAIRO — Israel’s plan to intensify its ground operations in Gaza’s south includes seizing control of the Philadelphi Corridor, a stretch of land adjacent to the Egypt-Gaza border. But the plan risks breaching Egyptian sovereignty and disrupting the already abysmal …
- Fatma Katr
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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has not discouraged the United Nations from buying millions of dollars of goods and services from Moscow, according to the latest annual statistical report on UN procurement, published in July. In 2022, UN purchases from …
- Dawn Clancy
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The creation of a United Nations Youth Office represents a chance to pilot a new model of leadership in the UN — one that at its core is power-sharing and not power-concentrating. The precedent it sets will have lasting effects …
Like every week, we take you behind the scenes of the UN. This week, we focus mainly on the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal and its repercussions. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues …
- Chloé Cosson
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The United States is working hard to get back on the world stage after four years of the Trump administration’s shunning of multilateral organizations — starting with the United Nations itself. Now the UN’s International Organization for Migration is being …
- Damilola Banjo
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“Ukraine Week” at the United Nations, marking the sad end of the first year of Russia’s illegal war, culminated in a resounding General Assembly vote against Russia’s recolonization — 141 countries demanded withdrawal versus Moscow and only six major recipients …
This week, we focus on countries with enduring humanitarian disasters, plus big news from the International Criminal Court on Russia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN …
- Damilola Banjo
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For decades the United States, the primary architect of international drug control policy, led the global fight against illicit drugs, exercising its influence through the Vienna-based Commission on Narcotic Drugs, a governing body that provides guidance to the United Nations …
