The United Nations helps design a deal to ship foodstuffs blocked in Ukraine ports.
Evelyn Leopold
Evelyn Leopold is a writing fellow and correspondent for Globetrotter. She is an independent journalist based at the United Nations and the winner of a UN Correspondents Association gold medal for her reporting. She served at Reuters as a manager, editor and correspondent in New York, Washington, London, Berlin and Nairobi. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and head of the Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists.
The U.S. Is a World Outlier on Abortion Restrictions
The recent overturning of Roe v. Wade is part of a pattern of American exceptionalism that harms people in both the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Remembering Inge Deutschkron, a Force of Nature Holocaust Survivor
The death of a legend who outwitted Nazis in wartime Berlin.
Biden Is Facing a Showdown on Iran Sanctions
Trump imposed a phantom “snapback” on Iran sanctions.
Is Netanyahu Serious About Annexing Jordan Valley?
On July 1, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised he would annex part of the Jordan Valley. He did not, but he may still do so before U.S. elections in November and while President Donald Trump is still in office. It could be his legacy.
UN’s $2 Billion Request for Coronavirus Is a ‘Drop in the Ocean’ for What the World Needs
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called the $2 billion requested to help fight Covid-19 ‘a drop in the ocean’
UN Chief Warns of Coming Recession for the Planet
The United Nations has shut down most of its meetings and all of its conferences, but the world body in New York stays open.
How the UN’s Middle East Peace Plan Was Trounced by Its Own Members
Israeli-Palestinian talks are still on hold
Was Trump Ready for Prime Time at UN?
Brazil’s president certainly was not
How Serious People Planned to Avert Climate Catastrophe at the UN (While Trump Hung Out in the Basement)
Trump skipped most of Monday’s climate proceedings and instead went to an event on religious discrimination.
Trump Has Done Incalculable Damage to Humanity by Backing Out of UN Programs
Will he slash more programs in his disdain for world bodies?
The Trump Plan for Middle East Peace—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Palestinians are boycotting the Trump’s event.
Yemen: Will a Deal Between Combatants Stop the Misery?
According to UN reports, the country has experienced the world’s worst cholera outbreak this century.
Trump’s Anti-Women Directives Are Even More Extreme Than Reagan’s — And the Puritans
Unable (yet) to get a ban on abortions or family planning in the United States, the Trump administration has reached back to 17th-century Puritan culture and banned American aid to any international organization that provides abortions or even just talks about the procedure.
Does Trump Want to Sabotage the United Nations?
President Donald Trump has frequently scorned the United Nations, leaving his pragmatic UN Ambassador Nikki Haley to smooth over the rough spots as he rejected policies identified with his cerebral predecessor, Barack Obama.
Nikki Haley Has Built Up a Reputation for Herself at the UN — But Probably Not the One She Wanted
As the world shuddered at the separation of families on the southern U.S. border, Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council. The timing could not have been worse.