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Oct 8, 2024 | 
unherd.com | Ian Martin
When Boris Johnson’s Unleashed was announced there were arguably grounds for believing it might be, in the Daily Mail’s hyperventilating guff, “Political Memoir of the Century!” Surely this self-caricaturing rogue, this Falstaff of British politics, would have some crazy stories to tell. Even if, like Shakespeare’s boastful narcissist, he was just making them up. Unleashed. Grr, like some gnarly XL Bully about to go mental in a shopping centre. Or as it turns out — unbothered?
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Ilgin Yorulmaz |Dulcie Leimbach |Banjo Damilola |Brett Wilkins |Ian Martin |Arthur Bassas
For nearly 26 years, Dr. Denis Mukwege, a politically outspoken gynecologist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been running a renowned hospital in a turbulent war zone over mineral resources in the country's east to heal thousands of women raped by roving armed militias.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Dawn Clancy |Darsen Hover |Banjo Damilola |Ian Martin
RAFAH, Egypt - Like a little boy heading home from a carnival, a child with shaggy black hair, carrying a bobbing blue balloon, walked alone on Saturday through the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing into Gaza.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Darsen Hover |Yoko Kamikawa |Banjo Damilola |Ian Martin
Welcome to This Week @UN : Japan's no-nukes effort; Palestine statehood; Haiti's survival; UNRWA cash. Plus: Famine in Gaza; forced labor; AI; a "shitshow." We are pausing the weekly summary on March 29 for the holidays. Our top story of the week: Palestine's Quest for Statehood Was Hindered From the Start, a Legal Expert Argues The month: The Key to Security Council Reform?
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Banjo Damilola |Yoko Kamikawa |Ian Martin |Darsen Hover
The United Nations Security Council endorsed an international police mission last fall to try to regain control of Haiti from the powerful armed gangs dominating parts of the country. Yet violence is now convulsing more regions of Haiti as the mission has been put on hold and the interim Haitian government has resigned.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Darsen Hover |Dulcie Leimbach |Banjo Damilola |Ian Martin |Ilgin Yorulmaz |Arthur Bassas
Did Palestine ever have a chance to gain its full rights as a state? In his new book, "The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity," Ardi Imseis delves into the history and legal questions on how the United Nations has tried to manage the status of Palestine.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Dawn Clancy |Ian Martin |Banjo Damilola |Mona Khalil
Welcome to This Week @UN: Japan outs the Security Council; UN experts' "false promises" on prostitution; UNRWA funding. Plus: Haiti; Sudan; Yemen; Mediterranean shipwreck. Our top story this week: UN Rights Experts Make False Promises on Prostitution , an op-ed The month: The Key to Security Council Reform?
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Anastasiia Carrier |Ian Martin |Dawn Clancy |John Penney
After weeks of deepening financial straits amid the deadly humanitarian conditions prevailing in Gaza, the tide may be turning positively for the United Nations Relief and Works agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). Yet numerous countries that suspended their aid nearly two months ago have redirected contributions to other UN operations, like the World Food Program, as they say they await the results of UN efforts to clear the agency's name.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Taina Bien-Aime |Dawn Clancy |Mona Khalil |Ian Martin |Maithili Pai |Francisco Perez | +2 more
The United Nations working group on discrimination against women and girls published a paper last year that not only fails to address the widespread human rights violations caused by prostitution and pornography, but also advocates for policies that will endanger women and girls.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Banjo Damilola |Dawn Clancy |Maithili Pai |Francisco Perez |Francisco Pérez |Mona Khalil | +1 more
One of Japan's foreign policy pillars is to secure world peace and stability, but with wars and diverse conflicts raging in almost all regions of the globe, Japan, known for its decades of pacifism since World War II, said the United Nations Security Council is struggling with its primary job of building peace and preventing violent disputes.
