Content tagged with “United Nations”
Every year, the convening of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly does more than spark traffic jams in New York City—it renews debate on the most pressing global challenges, ranging...
Tags: United Nations, Aspen Ministers Forum In 2005, the United Nations established an initiative called Responsibility to Protect, predicated on the idea that sovereignty is a responsibility rather than a right, and that gross human rights...
Tags: Human Rights, United Nations, Stephen L. Carter, 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, Jeffrey Goldberg, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Michael Abramowitz, Dele Olojede As the uprising rages on in Syria, some Lebanese leaders are calling for isolating the country from regional conflict, while many, including Druze leader Walid Jumblatt are still hedging their bets....
Tags: Hezbollah, United Nations, Syria Refugees continue to pour into Lebanon seven months into the Syrian uprising. Since March, approximately 3,800 Syrian refugees have crossed into Wadi Khaled, northern Lebanon's mountainous...
Tags: Education, United Nations, Security, uprising, refugees, UNHCR In his address to the UN General Assembly, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman reaffirmed Lebanon's commitment to respecting resolutions related to international legitimacy such as the Special...
Tags: United Nations, Najib Mikati, STL, March 8 Lebanese President Michel Suleiman yesterday reiterated Lebanon's commitment to UN resolutions and its international obligations in his address to the UN General Assembly. But while his speech was...
Tags: United Nations, Syria, Turkey, Palestine It is hard to tell whether the relative calm that the Eid al-Fitr break, marking the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan, has dampened tensions in Lebanon or whether this is the calm before the storm...
Tags: United Nations, Syria, Turkey, Arab League Want Popcorn With That? Vital Voices hosted a twitterchat last Friday about human trafficking and modern slavery to coincide with the DC release of The Whistleblower. The film narrates one...
Tags: Philanthropy, Foreign Aid, United Nations, Advocacy Strategies Lebanon will assume the presidency of the UN Security Council (UNSC) at the end of August, for a period lasting one month. This will prove to be an intricate phase as critical resolutions on Syria...
Tags: Lebanon, United Nations, Syria, uprising, Security Council Tensions between Lebanon's two political camps have peaked since the release of the Special Tribunal indictments, leading to clashes in Beirut and a major security violation in the South. French...
Tags: Lebanon, United Nations, protests, violence, UNFIL 
