UNESCO

December 18, 2024 | Natalie Ecanow, Mariam Wahba

Haute Qatar: Sheikha Moza’s Glamour Masks Doha’s Vices

Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser is revered as a champion of education, sustainability, fashion, and art. The glamorous female face of the Qatar regime — and the mother of its current emir — presents herself as a modern face of a traditional, conservative Gulf state.  ...

November 14, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Destroyed by ISIS, a historic minaret in Mosul rises again

The repairs to this site which is in the old city of Mosul on the western bank of the Tigris river that runs through the city, is an important accomplishment.

November 12, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

Here’s how Elise Stefanik can put Trump’s America First agenda to work at the UN

The screams you heard emanating from Turtle Bay earlier this week were foreign diplomats learning that President-elect Donald Trump would appoint Rep. Elise Stefanik to be his ambassador to the...

May 9, 2024 | |

Palestinian Statehood Bid Risks Triggering U.S. Defunding of UN

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is expected to vote on May 10 on a resolution asserting its opinion that the “State of Palestine” is qualified for UN membership. The...

April 18, 2024 | |

U.S. Vetoes Palestinian Statehood Bid at UN

The United States on April 18 vetoed the Palestinian bid to gain full membership at the United Nations. Twelve members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) supported the...

October 3, 2023 | Richard Goldberg, Enia Krivine

Memo to Biden: The United Nations Won’t Love You Back

Another loss for the U.S. at the U.N. shows the folly of engaging with the body for engagement’s sake.

September 29, 2023 | Haisam Hassanein |

The New Middle East? An Israeli official goes to Riyadh while a Saudi official visits Ramallah

Here’s why things are changing so fast in Arab-Israeli relations

September 21, 2023 | |

Abbas Calls for UN Recognition of Palestinian State

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in a September 21 speech to the United Nations that the world body should recognize Palestine as the 194th member state. Abbas...

September 15, 2023 | |

Three Years On, Secretary of State Complicates Abraham Accords Expansion

Three years after the Abraham Accords were signed by the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain, the White House’s efforts to tie normalization to the...

August 17, 2023 | Haisam Hassanein |

Saudi-Israeli peace is no pipe dream

Is a Saudi-Israeli peace deal just around the corner or still just a long-term hope? The Wall Street Journal reported that Washington and Riyadh “have agreed on the broad contours...

March 21, 2023 | David May, Richard Goldberg

How to Keep Antisemitism Away From Turtle Bay

Another antisemite has turned up in the ranks of senior UN officials — this time in the body’s human rights arm, no less. Craig Mokhiber heads the New York section of the Office of the High Commissioner...

March 4, 2022 | Enia Krivine, Richard Goldberg

Returning to UNESCO Will Not Solve Our China Problem

The Senate Appropriations Committee is quietly advancing a change to U.S. laws that would allow the Biden administration to rejoin the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)...

March 4, 2022 | Richard Goldberg, John Hardie

Putin Is Making a Mockery of the United Nations

The Biden administration must finally recognize what engagement at the U.N. can and cannot do.

November 18, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The world order is being hijacked

Despots now call the shots at the U.N. and other international organizations

October 2, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Philip Kowalski

The United Nations: Erdogan’s Favorite Platform for Trolling the World

The United Nations General Assembly, which meets every September, offers authoritarian heads of state their favorite platform for trolling the world. For this year’s 75th annual session, Turkish president...

July 8, 2020 | Craig Singleton |

Post-COVID, Let’s Leverage International Organizations to Slow Down China

In a sign that not all hope has been lost in combating China’s efforts to co-opt international organizations (IO), Beijing recently suffered a bruising defeat at the hands of the World Trade Organization...

March 16, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s parliament favors Merkel’s anti-Israel U.N. voting pattern

Political representatives in Germany’s Bundestag overwhelmingly rejected a resolution by the Free Democratic Party to urge Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to reverse its anti-Israel voting r...

June 29, 2018 | David May |

U.S. Withdrawals Carry Financial Costs for UN Agencies

The recent U.S. withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will not only damage the body’s legitimacy, it c...

May 25, 2018 | David May

“Palestine 194” Resumes, Signaling Palestinian Frustration

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), acting under the name of the “State of Palestine,”...

May 2, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s roguish stand against US, Israel must be stopped

Co-written by Anne Bayefsky Israel and the Trump administration have a German problem, ironically manifesting itself on Israel’s 69th birthday.  Just as President Trump’...