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Apr 29, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Banjo Damilola |Dulcie Leimbach |Hasmik Egian
It's no secret that gang violence and political instability are threatening the last vestiges of normalcy in many parts of Haiti and feeding a security and humanitarian crisis. Now, Finance Minister Michel Patrick Boisvert, sworn in on April 25 as the interim prime minister to lead the Transitional Presidential Council, faces the job of restoring order and salvaging the country's democratic institutions. He also requires another crucial element to steer Haiti from ruin.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Dulcie Leimbach |Hasmik Egian |Minh-Thu Pham
Welcome to This Week @UN : Saving UNRWA; Kiribati's water paradox; signs of UN Security Council reform? Plus: Kosovo; rape in war; US; Haiti; Sudan. PassBlue's top story this week: This month: From PassBlue this week: Which Woman Should Be the Next UN Secretary-General?
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Hasmik Egian |Dulcie Leimbach |Minh-Thu Pham |Maiara Folly |Enyseh Teimory
Attempts at structural reform of the United Nations Security Council, whether about its size, membership or the powers allotted to its members, has been a work in progress for over three decades. Yet there is scant prospect that this effort will be successfully concluded in this or indeed the next decade.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Richard Ponzio |Dawn Clancy |Irwin Arieff |Hasmik Egian |Mouin Rabbani | +1 more
Welcome to This Week @UN: Remember Nikki Haley?; Summit of the Future; South Africa's genocide case; interviewing the General Assembly president. Plus: Cabo Verde, Yemen, Gaza and Somalia.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Moncef Khane |Anastasiia Carrier |Hasmik Egian |Mouin Rabbani
Welcome to This Week @UN: Afghan women are dying en route to the hospital or in it. Why invoke Article 99 of the UN Charter? The UN relief agency is not the problem in Gaza. Plus: The Congo and Sudan. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.Our mega-fundraising drive ends Dec. 31, so if you haven't donated to our annual News Match campaign, we ask for your utmost generosity in the final stretch of 2023 to double your gift, up to $1,000 each.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
passblue.com | Anastasiia Carrier |Moncef Khane |Arthur Bassas |Hasmik Egian |Mouin Rabbani
In the Taliban's Afghanistan, it's not uncommon for three women to share a hospital bed. Nor is it rare for premature babies to share incubators. This occurs in the most developed city, the capital of Kabul, and all over the country. Families often cannot afford a trip to the doctor to get help for women or children, and more women are dying on their way to the hospital from pregnancy complications because they need to travel hours or even days to get care.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
passblue.com | Moncef Khane |Anastasiia Carrier |Arthur Bassas |Hasmik Egian |Mouin Rabbani
On Day 60 of Israel's offensive on Gaza, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took a rare initiative - invoking Article 99 of the UN Charter "to bring to the attention of the Security Council a matter, which in my opinion, may aggravate existing threats to the maintenance of international peace and security." He also reiterated his call in the letter he sent to the rotating president of the Council for a "humanitarian ceasefire" and urged the Council to "avert a humanitarian...
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
passblue.com | Dawn Clancy |Moncef Khane |Anastasiia Carrier |Arthur Bassas |Hasmik Egian |Mouin Rabbani
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has fallen from major headlines - overtaken by the Israel/Hamas bloodbath in Gaza - but Ukrainian officials are shuttling across the globe to remind the world that their country is still at war and that peace with Russia, without the international backing of President Volodymyr Zelensky's peace plan - is far from guaranteed. "Since 2014, we have held more than 200 rounds of negotiations with Russia.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
passblue.com | Fiona Harvey |Banjo Damilola |Anastasiia Carrier |Hasmik Egian |Mouin Rabbani |Dawn Clancy
As temperatures broke records around the world this summer, António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, warned in September: "Humanity has opened the gates of hell."On Dec. 13, he hailed delegates at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, as two weeks of fraught talks ended. "For the first time, the outcome recognizes the need to transition away from fossil fuels," he said.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
passblue.com | Clair MacDougall |Banjo Damilola |Anastasiia Carrier |Hasmik Egian |Mouin Rabbani |Dawn Clancy
Alice Jill Edwards, the United Nations' first woman to serve as special rapporteur on torture, is wasting no time in her first year on the job. She has accused the Russian government of systematic torture in Ukraine and called for banning the use and export of "medieval" torture weapons. She is also investigating the mutilation of demonstrators' eyes in Chile.
