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Justice Begins Within: For Greece, the UN’s Internal Courts Are Its Own Rule of Law

Upholding the rule of law internally affirms that the UN does not merely promote justice but practices it. Amid these times, ...
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Women Who Manage Climate Disasters Are Generally the Last to Get Funding

Climate change is widening the gender gap. It is erasing decades of hard-won progress for gender equality. Most people ...
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US Pushes to Lift UN Sanctions Against Syria’s Leader ASAP

“Decides that Ahmed al-Sharaa, included on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List as Ahmad Hussain Al-Sharaa (QDi.317) ...
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How US-UAE Ties Weaken Washington’s Voice on Sudan

United States President Trump may want to see a ceasefire in Sudan, but Washington’s close ties with the United Arab Emirates ...
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Small Nation, Big Dreams: Sierra Leone Learns Tough Lessons in the Security Council

Sierra Leone came to the United Nations Security Council ready to change the system. Instead, it found itself learning just how resistant the system is to change. The small West African country took ...
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Feminist Foreign Policies Are Fighting for Their Life

According to the report, “Well-funded anti-rights opposition movements that are polarizing politics and sweeping elections around the globe, claiming a number of feminist foreign policy governments in ...
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[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More

• Results of PassBlue’s Survey: ‘Vote for the Next UN Secretary-General’, by PassBlue. Michelle Bachelet, ex-two-time president of Chile, won the informal readers’ poll. The results were reported ...
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From Gaza to Syria, US Makes New Moves in the UN Security Council

On the Gaza front, Waltz of the US convened a private meeting on Nov. 5 at the US mission to the UN to rally support for a new Security Council draft resolution meant to stabilize the Palestinian ...
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Coal From South Africa Keeps Flowing to Israel Despite the ICJ Genocide Case

South Africa’s flow of coal exports to Israel has continued in record numbers amid the Gaza war, despite South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice. The coal ...
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UN Security Officers Stage a Sick-Out to Protest Planned Benefit Cuts

Multiple security posts at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, including a main pedestrian entrance on 42nd Street and First Avenue, were left unmanned on Monday as some officers carried ...
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UN80 Plan Spells Doom for the Organization’s Core Work, Insiders Say

Pramila Patten, head of the UN office on ending sexual violence in war, far left, visiting a refugee camp in North Darfur, 2018. Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled aspects of his UN80 reform ...
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Four Years After the Taliban’s Return, Afghan Women Judges Go Deeper Underground

The second meeting of the Assembly of Afghan Women Judges at the Supreme Court, 2013, Kabul. Their faces have been redacted by the author, a former Afghan judge who now resides in Britain. She writes ...