The long-standing UN secretary general could have done more to protect the world’s most vulnerable people.
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The UN Security Council calls the shots when it comes to appointing the body’s chief – which means 5 permanent members have an outsized say on the matter.
While states have the right to expel or deny entry to any diplomat without reason, barring a top UN official could have serious ramifications for the organisation’s work.
Geopolitical concerns have once again brought the UN security council to a standstill.
An international civil service matters for global governance. Without it, it would be impossible to promote and maintain a rules-based world.
Kofi Annan was the first UN employee to rise to the position of Secretary General but his tenure also had a darker side.
A new strategy from the UN secretary general challenges the world to explain why it’s not doing more to defuse the nuclear threat.
The global agenda for 2017 is fiendishly complicated and hugely sensitive. Is António Guterres up to the task?
As the former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Guterres could promote a more unified approach to helping the displaced.
There were seven highly regarded and qualified women who could have been selected as the next UN secretary-general. So why did the job go to another man?
The UN’s Charter legally binds it to promote gender equality, but guess what: yes, it’s a man again.
The UN has adopted a more transparent process to select its new Secretary General. But it does not go far enough.
Africa should focus on the feasible reforms of the UN and de-emphasise its demand for improved representation on the Security Council voting reforms, given the complex politics around these issues.
The University of Canberra’s Nicholas Klomp and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Former British foreign secretary David Miliband says Kevin Rudd ‘undoubtedly had the qualification’ to be a candidate for the United Nations secretary-general post.
The royal commission into the Northern Territory's youth detention and child protection systems has had a shaky start.
A furious Kevin Rudd has released correspondence in which he wrote that on ‘multiple’ occasions Malcolm Turnbull had backed his candidature to run for UN secretary-general.
Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to stymie Kevin Rudd’s bid to run for the United Nations secretary-general post is ill-judged, unjustified and unfair. It is a capitulation to the Liberal conservatives. It…
All politics is local. It’s a cliché but one that never goes out of style. Malcolm Turnbull’s unwillingness to endorse Kevin Rudd for the world’s top diplomatic post, the secretary-general of the United…
Malcolm Turnbull swiftly announced a royal commission this week in response to revelations about the treatment of boys in the Don Dale youth detention facility.
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