• In-depth Analysis
  • Trending
  • Podcasts
  • Photos
  • Video
  • About UN Dispatch
  • Contact
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
UN Dispatch logo
  • In-depth Analysis
    Featured
    • For the first time, LGBT rights will be formally institutionalized into the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      July 1, 2016
    Recent
    • The Biden Administration’s Decision to Re-Join the UN Human Rights Council is about Competing With China

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 8, 2021
    • Why February 3rd, 2021 Marked the Beginning of the End of the Covid-19 Pandemic Worldwide

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 5, 2021
    • For the First Time the UN’s Human Development Index Ranks Countries by their “Planetary Pressures”

      Joanne Lu
      January 26, 2021
    • New Poll: How Americans in All 50 States View the United Nations

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      January 20, 2021
    • Vaccine Multilateralism Gets a Shot in the Arm

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      December 22, 2020
    • This is How European Countries Rank in their Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals

      Joanne Lu
      December 11, 2020
  • Trending
    Featured
    • Why Does the USA Admit So Few Refugees from Syria?

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      September 9, 2015
    Recent
    • This Video of a Refugee Boy With a Golden Voice Is Going Viral

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      January 25, 2018
    • 9 Stories that will Drive the Global Agenda in 2018

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      December 27, 2017
    • A UN Official (Correctly) Calls Trump’s New Travel Ban “Collective Punishment”

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      September 25, 2017
    • The Supreme Court Just Blocked Vetted Refugees from Starting a New Life in the United States

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      June 26, 2017
    • It’s Not Just Syria. A Record Number of Refugees Are Fleeing from New Conflicts.

      Kimberly Curtis
      June 20, 2017
    • PHOTOS: Inside the World’s Largest Humanitarian Relief Depot

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 21, 2017
  • Podcasts
    Featured
    • Nobel Peace Prize

      How to Win the Nobel Peace Prize -- A Juror Explains

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      November 18, 2019
    Recent
    • The Conflict in Yemen Takes A Dangerous New Turn

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 25, 2021
    • Why Some Countries Just Can’t Quit Coal

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 23, 2021
    • US in Afghanistan

      What’s Next for the US In Afghanistan?

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 18, 2021
    • How the Biden-Harris Administration Can Seize this Moment in Climate Diplomacy

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 16, 2021
    • Why Farmers in India are Staging Mass Protests

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 11, 2021
    • What’s Next for USAID?

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 8, 2021
  • Photos

    Recent

    • PHOTOS: Inside the World's Largest Humanitarian Relief Depot

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 21, 2017
    • Five Powerful Photos from South Sudan

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      July 8, 2016
    • PHOTO ESSAY: Struggles, Hopes and Fears of Women in Nepal, One Year After the Earthquake

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      April 8, 2016
    • Here's What Happens When the World's Most Renowned Photographers Capture the Refugee Crisis

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      March 30, 2016
    • This Giant Mural in Oakland, California Commemorates the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      June 25, 2015
    • The UN's Hurt Locker

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 16, 2015
  • Video
    Featured
    • This Amazingly Resiliant 13-Year-Old-Girl Escaped Violence in the Central African Republic

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      January 13, 2015
    Recent
    • A UN Video to Remind the World That Civilians are #NotATarget

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      August 18, 2017
    • VIDEO: A BBC Journalist Snuck Into Yemen To Report on the Worst Humanitarian Crisis

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      July 28, 2017
    • WATCH: UN Secretary General Invokes Physics to Explain Why American Leadership is Necessary for World Order

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      June 21, 2017
    • WATCH: Rarely Seen Footage from the Conflict in the Central African Republic

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      May 17, 2017
    • Famine, Explained (VIDEO)

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      March 13, 2017
    • VIDEO: There is more plastic in the sea, than stars in the galaxy

      Mark Leon Goldberg
      February 24, 2017
  • Contact
  • About

Tagged Next S-G

The Race for UN Secretary General

Home
Next S-G

Samantha Power: “It is not hard to understand why some people feel let down that a woman was not chosen as the next UN Secretary-General.”

Mark Leon Goldberg
October 20, 2016
Campaigners in and out of the United Nations had hoped that for the first time in 70 years, the United Nations would be lead by a female Secretary General. The #She4SG campaign emerged to support this cause, an...

The Next UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres “Speaks Truth To Power.” (So how is it that the most powerful countries in the world selected him?)

Mark Leon Goldberg
October 6, 2016
Antonio Guterres is a paradoxical figure to become the next UN Secretary General. As the longtime head of the UN Refugee Agency he developed a reputation for his outspoken style and willingness to confront powe...

There is a Key Vote Happening Today to Decide the Next UN Secretary General

Mark Leon Goldberg
October 5, 2016
Ed note. I'll update this post once the results are in.  UPDATE: It's in. Antonio Guterres, the former head of the UN Refugee Agency and former Prime Minister of Portugal will be the 9th UN Secretary General...

Could this late entrant into the race to replace Ban Ki Moon to become the next UN Secretary General?

Mark Leon Goldberg
September 28, 2016
Kristalina Georgieva was always a sleeper candidate for UN Secretary General. She's a top international diplomat from Bulgaria who has held key posts at the European Union. But her candidacy was never endorsed ...

Here’s what you need to know about today’s straw poll to pick the next UN Secretary General

Mark Leon Goldberg
September 9, 2016
Updated with results, below. The Security Council holds its fourth straw poll today to weigh members' preferences for who should replace Ban Ki Moon when his term expires at the end of the year. Like the previ...

The Security Council Holds Yet Another Poll to Decide Who Will Become the Next Secretary General

Mark Leon Goldberg
August 29, 2016
Updates with results, below The third informal straw poll by the Security Council to pick the next Secretary General of the United Nations happens later today.  This will be an important inflection point in ...

We May Know Today Who the Next UN Secretary General Will Be

Mark Leon Goldberg
August 5, 2016
UPDATE BELOW The Security Council on Friday will take an informal "straw poll" to weigh preferences of its 15 members for the next UN Secretary General. This is the second such straw poll in the race to repl...

Here’s How the Next UN Secretary General Candidate Will be Selected

Mark Leon Goldberg
July 21, 2016
Today, the Security Council will hold its first major meeting on selecting the next Secretary General of the United Nations. The Council will meet behind closed doors to take the first "straw poll" of the Se...

UN Secretary General Candidate Conversations: Helen Clark

Mark Leon Goldberg
July 21, 2016
Helen Clark is a candidate to become the next UN Secretary General. She's the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving from 1999 to 2008 and is currently the head of the United Nations Development Prog...
  • 1
  • 2

Stay in the loop

Popular posts right now

  • Destroying Cultural Heritage in Timbuktu

    Mark Leon Goldberg
    July 2, 2012
  • Map of the Day: Where Same Sex Marriage is Legal

    Mark Leon Goldberg
    June 26, 2013
  • This Broadside from a US Diplomat is Going Viral on Facebook: “I’m asking people stop blindly criticizing us and put away the shoes they’re polishing to dance on our graves”

    Mark Leon Goldberg
    May 2, 2017

Get occasional updates from UN Dispatch

* indicates required

Want Our Social Media List?