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Week Ending April 26

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?
Who Knew? Reform Is Happening in the UN Security Council

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.
The UN Pact for the Future Needs Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

Apr 17, 2024 | passblue.com | Minh-Thu Pham

In September, world leaders will gather in New York for the United Nations’ Summit of the Future, an event intended to revive a multilateral system built for a different era. While similar efforts are taking place in other international forums, no other platform for reforming global governance can compete with a summit that convenes all countries, great and small. Unfortunately, the world’s governments are already jeopardizing this opportunity.
The UN Pact for the Future Needs Something Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue

Apr 15, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Minh-Thu Pham

In September, world leaders will gather in New York for the United Nations’ Summit of the Future, an event intended to revive a multilateral system built for a different era. While similar efforts are taking place in other international forums, no other platform for reforming global governance can compete with a summit that convenes all countries, great and small. Unfortunately, the world’s governments are already jeopardizing this opportunity.
Is This the Moment to Renew Global Governance? Prospects for the UN Summit of the Future

Feb 21, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Stewart M. Patrick |Guy Ryder |Jake Sherman |Minh-Thu Pham

This September, the United Nations will convene a Summit of the Future, designed to address the crisis of multilateralism by modernizing outdated institutions of global governance. Member states will be asked to endorse a Pact for the Future, a blueprint for international cooperation in the twenty-first century.
Gaza Is Cleaning Up Its Piles of Garbage From the War, Including Human Waste

Jan 23, 2024 | passblue.com | Dawn Clancy |Dulcie Leimbach |Minh-Thu Pham |Maiara Folly |Enyseh Teimory

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 system are helping to spread infectious diseases that could kill more Palestinians in the strip.
A UN Expert on the Institution’s Successes, Failures, and Continued Relevance

Sep 21, 2023 | carnegieendowment.org | Minh-Thu Pham

Minh-Thu Pham recently joined the Carnegie Endowment as a nonresident scholar. What was it like to work at the UN, based on your years in the Secretariat? It was both inspiring and humbling—inspiring because you get to help the community of 193 nations try to uphold the values they agreed to, and humbling because you (or at least your boss, the Secretary-General) have no power and very little influence.
Five Things to Watch for at the UN General Assembly Opening

Sep 14, 2023 | carnegieendowment.org | Stewart M. Patrick |Minh-Thu Pham

When world leaders convene next week for the annual opening of the UN General Assembly, the assembled nations will be anything but united. Geopolitical rivalries, political grievances, economic upheaval, and ecological crises are testing the legitimacy and credibility of the seventy-eight-year-old body.