Stéphanie Fillion

1 week ago | envoymag.com | Jordan M. Dakamseh |Georgia Garantzioti |Stéphanie Fillion |Betul Yuruk

Japan has its eyes on a UNSC permanent seat, and the Permanent Representative Yamazaki Kazuyuki knows how to secure it via diplomacy. Japan, a global power, is working tirelessly to secure a consensus among the UN Members to reform the Security Council. Reform is needed to reflect the current reality of the world. Japan is determined to realize it, even if that means a clause preventing it from the use of the veto power for a decade.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Stéphanie Fillion

Former Chilean President and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said that she will "maybe" run for the United Nations' top job during an event at Columbia University on March 12. Speaking at a panel marking the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration on gender equality, Bachelet—currently a fellow at Columbia’s Global Institute—left the door open to a potential candidacy.

Jan 14, 2025 | afr.com | Stéphanie Fillion

Stéphanie FillionJan 15, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? In 2019, when the 15 ambassadors on the United Nations Security Council travelled to Washington for lunch with then US president Donald Trump, they thought they’d meet the unpredictable, unfiltered, and vocal critic of multilateralism they’d seen on TV.

Jan 10, 2025 | envoymag.com | Stéphanie Fillion

Actor William Shatner may have played the captain of a starship for years in the hit TV series and movie Star Trek, even the best fiction work about space exploration could not have prepared him for the life-changing experience he underwent when he traveled to space in 2021. “I went up into space, and when I came down, I was weeping, and I didn’t know why I was crying,” Shatner said.

Jan 9, 2025 | lowyinstitute.org | Stéphanie Fillion

Many an eyebrow had raised both in Canada and internationally when US President-elect Donald Trump chose Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the first G7 leader to meet in person after the November election. During Trump’s first term, the pair weren’t exactly known to have the best relationship, and they were far from ideologically aligned. In a way, Trudeau had also become a scapegoat and an object of fun for Trump’s MAGA movement.