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Jun 14, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Dulcie Leimbach |Maria Luisa Gambale |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss |Dawn Clancy
Welcome to This Week @UN : Small states financial reform; US presidential candidates; Cyprus unification? Plus: Gaza; drowning migrants; DPRK; children in war; FGM. We have begun fund-raising to boost our coverage of the UN General Assembly annual opening session in September, including reporting on the Summit of the Future.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Dulcie Leimbach |Maria Luisa Gambale |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss |Dawn Clancy |Arthur Bassas
NICOSIA, Cyprus - The last chance for the long-divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus to reunite may be seized as the relatively new envoy for the United Nations coaxes the two sides in the 50-year dispute to let down their guard and begin talking to each other. A breakthrough may be afoot as some key people met together at UN headquarters in New York City recently.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Maria Luisa Gambale |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss |Dawn Clancy
Welcome to This Week @UN: South Korea's on cybersecurity; Summit of the Future. Plus: Mexico; OCHA; Lebanon; Myanmar; Security Council "elections"; Israel; Yemen.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Maria Luisa Gambale |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss |Arthur Bassas |Dawn Clancy
With the Summit of the Future now a mere three months away, opinions about its chances to produce meaningful change for the United Nations if not the world are extremely mixed. The promised documents related to the summit - the Pact for the Future, Digital Global Compact and Declaration on Future Generations - are running through their second major draft reviews, while time is running out.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Maria Luisa Gambale |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss |Arthur Bassas |Dan Becker |Richard Ponzio
With the Summit of the Future now a mere three months away, opinions about its chances to produce meaningful change for the United Nations if not the world are extremely mixed. The promised documents related to the summit - the Pact for the Future, Digital Global Compact and Declaration on Future Generations - are running through their second major draft reviews, while time is running out.
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May 31, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Dan Becker |Clair MacDougall |Maggie Dwyer |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss
Welcome to This Week @UN: Peacekeeping; P5 veto; decriminalizing sex work. Plus: Cyprus; Gaza; unemployment; Iran; Iraq; Trump. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.* Our #1 story this week: Not So Fast: Is the P5 Veto Truly Impervious? * #1 for the month: Summit of the Future: A Historical Pivot or Mere Footnote? * Listen up with UNSCripted, our original podcast episodes, covering Security Council presidencies plus our three-part series on the founding of the UN Charter.
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May 30, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss
Major progress has been made in the debate on sex workers' rights through a recent paper, "Eliminating discrimination against sex workers and securing their human rights," published by the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls.
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May 28, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Dan Becker |Dulcie Leimbach |Maria Luisa Gambale |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss |Dawn Clancy
In the United Nations Charter, the very sentence that establishes the Security Council's permanent-five veto power ends - surprisingly - in these nine words: ". . . a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting."Let's allow the phrase to sink in for a moment before acknowledging that there is indeed a host of conditions, requirements, litmus tests and hoops to jump through before the phrase can be invoked and applied to a resolution.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
passblue.com | Joe Penney |Maria Luisa Gambale |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss |Dawn Clancy |Arthur Bassas
YEREVAN, GORIS and MEGHRI, Armenia - On Sept. 19, 2023, Narine Mirzoyan had just finished classes at the secondary school where she taught Armenian language and history. "I came home and was changing my clothes," she said. "It was around 1 o'clock. I took off my blazer and from four sides they started to bomb. And two of my kids were still at school." Azerbaijani troops had launched a major offensive and were advancing rapidly.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
passblue.com | Dan Becker |Dulcie Leimbach |Maria Luisa Gambale |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss |Dawn Clancy
Our latest episode of "Act of Creation" takes listeners deep into conversation with Stephen Schlesinger, author of the book of the same name, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this September and chronicles the birth of the United Nations through the signing of the UN Charter. That is arguably the moment when the UN was born, at the end of a two-month conclave that began on April 25, 1945, most famously referred to as the San Francisco Conference.
