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“The United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell,” Dag Hammersjkold told us some 60 years ago. To Save Us From Hell is a podcast that discusses the players and debates raging at the UN to keep us from that fiery furnace.
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Who’s Up, Who’s Down in the Race for UN Secretary-General? (opens the original)
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The race to become the next United Nations Secretary-General reached a pivotal moment on Thursday, when the Security Council held its first straw poll of the seven declared candidates. The results sharply narrowed the field: only four candidates now appear viable, with one clear frontrunner and three others close behind. In this special live episode of To Save Us From Hell , Anjali Dayal and I break down how the selection process works, examine the backgrounds of the four leading candidates, and
What's Going on With the ICC? Plus: UNHCR in Trump's Crosshairs...And a rumored new Sec Gen Candidate? (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.globaldispatches.org To the world, Zohran Mamdani is the mayor of New York. To the UN, he is the mayor of its host city. So when he posted a video calling for the arrest and extradition of Benjamin Netanyahu to the International Criminal Court should he visit the UN General Assembly in September, it naturally generated some buzz around the UN. Of course, the New York mayor h…
A Viral Shouting Match at the UN has Turned Into a Campaign to Oust a Senior UN Official (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.globaldispatches.org About ten days ago, a highly unusual scene unfolded at the United Nations: Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon and Vanessa Frazier, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, got into a public shouting match, with Danon telling Frazier, “You will be quiet now!” What began as a tense exchange over a UN report has s…
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