After the WHO, the UN Security Council should be next up for reform

A Council that seeks to maintain world peace and security needs to clarify what they mean, how to achieve them sustainably, and what threatens them.

The recent international tensions to secure medical supplies in response to COVID-19, and the consequences of the pandemic on the entire planet provide the Security Council with an unexpected opportunity to demonstrate its ability to speak with one voice as the world needs it the most, writes Pascal Desbiens.Flickr photograph by Michelle Lee

Opinion

BY PASCAL DESBIENS

April 22, 2020

The recent appeal by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to the Security Council to speak with one voice on COVID-19 should not be taken lightly. After the World Health Organization (WHO), which is being targeted for its role in handling the pandemic, the United Nations Security Coun...

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