One year into the United Nations’ new strategy for gender parity among staff members at all levels, a gendered backlash has emerged, even as parity has been achieved at the highest echelons of the world body.
Peacebuilding processes seek to transform the root causes of violence and conflict through social, political, and economic change. In a new article, Riva Kantowitz explores how innovative finance tools like social impact bonds, blended finance, and outcome funds may or may not be well placed to support these processes.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo went to the polls on December 30, 2018 to elect a new president, as well as national and provincial parliamentarians. The polls should mark the first democratic handover of executive power in the country’s history and could either cement or undermine its fledging democratic institutions. Jason Stearns, Senior Fellow and Director of the Congo Research Group answers some of the key questions surrounding the election.
On the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we are pleased to share some of the work we are most proud of from July 2017-June 2018 — work that we believe has contributed to advancing effective multilateral action to prevent crises and build peace, justice, and inclusion.
On October 31, 2018, the Presidents of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and the Security Council convened publicly to discuss the challenges facing multilateralism, their effects on the work of the UN, and the need for member states to reaffirm and renew their commitment to the original ideals of the UN Charter. The panel was co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, in association with the NYU Center on International Cooperation.
