Monthly Archives: January 2012
SG briefing; Security Council; Syria; South Sudan; and more
The Security Council will be briefed tomorrow morning by Ian Martin, head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, and Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on post-conflict Libya. In the afternoon, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Yemen, Jamal Benomar, will brief the Security Council on his recent trip to Yemen, including an update on the situation on the ground in Yemen after President Ali Abdullah Saleh left the country on Sunday, bound for the US to receive medical treatment.
Off to Liberia, With UNITAID
I’m heading to Liberia this week on a global health reporting project. I will accompany a delegation from UNITAID, a World Health Organization affiliated program that gives grants to governments and NGOs to implement HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB and other health projects in the developing world.
Land Grabs in Cambodia
Human rights in Cambodia have gone from bad to worse in January, prompting Human Rights Watch to issue a damning report on the Southeast Asian nation’s rights slide.
South Sudan; US; Haiti; Iran; and more
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced deep concern over continuing tensions along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, as well as the current crisis over oil, saying that the situation represented a worrying deterioration in the relationship between the two countries.
Meanwhile, the top United Nations envoy in South Sudan stressed today that the best way to protect civilians in the strife-torn state of Jonglei is through military deterrence and urged the Government to deploy more troops and police in the area to patrol buffer zones between rival communities and defuse tensions.
Haitians No Longer Excluded From Biggest U.S. Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Haitians are now allowed to come to the U.S. as part of the largest American temporary foreign worker program. How this policy development will help Haiti and the reconstruction.
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The SC; HRC; DPRK; South Sudan
The SC: The Security Council today held its last consultations under the Council Presidency of ROK. Tomorrow, Russia will take over the rotating Presidency of the Security Council for March under Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.
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The SG; Mali; Middle East; Palestine
The SG: At the Fifth Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna, Austria today, the SG emphasized the role of youth in ensuring a “prosperous, equitable and peaceful future.”
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The SG; DRC; HRC; Palestinian Prisoner
The SG: In Ethiopia over the weekend, the SG is now in the United Arab Emirates. Today he met with Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, where the two discussed developments in the region, including Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, and in the Middle East Peace Process.
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