Marta Ruedas is a United Nations civil servant who has worked in many countries around the world, initially with the United Nations Development Programme, including Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Georgia, Nepal, Mongolia and Mexico, as well as at its headquarters in New York. The organization assists countries in reaching their targets in economic and social development. In 2015 she was the Country Director of the UNDP in Kabul, Afghanistan.[1]
Marta Ruedas | |
|---|---|
| United Nations Development Programme | |
In 2016, Ruedas was the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan,[2][3][4] and, in 2018, she became the United Nations Deputy Special Representative and UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq.
Early life and education
editRuedas has a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University, a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University, and a diploma in Russian studies from the Pushkin Institute in Moscow.
Career
editRuedas served as UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Sao Tomé and Príncipe, beginning in 1999. She was then assigned to the same post in Bulgaria in 2001,[5] at the end of which she was awarded the country's state medal, the Stara Planina Order,[6] by former Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov.[7] While in Bulgaria, she helped to organize a UN project which provided assistance to the Government of Bulgaria in identifying and destroying surpluses of weapons and ammunition.[8]
In 2003, Ruedas became the Deputy Regional Director of the UN's Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States in New York. She left this post in 2007 when she was assigned as the UN's Deputy Special Coordinator/ Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Lebanon,[9][10] where she was once again in charge of promoting economic and social development projects.[11][12]
From 2011 to 2014, Ruedas worked for the recovery of crisis-affected communities around the world during her post as Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director for UNDP's Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, arranging public-private partnerships[13] to accelerate recovery.
On 31 August 2014, Ruedas was appointed Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she coordinated UNDP projects, including the construction of bridges, provision of water access to communities in remote areas of Afghanistan,[14] and participation in the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme.
From 2015 to 2017, she was the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan.[15][16][17][18] In February of that year, she traveled to a refugee camp at Tawilla, where 86,000 refugees had gathered,[19][20] and, in 2017, she met with Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir[21] and visited a camp in Darfur.[22] In 2018, at the close of her mission, Ruedas was presented with Sudan's First-Class Order of the Two Niles by Omar al-Bashir who was indicted by International Criminal Court for Darfur genocide.[23][24] The move was labelled "scandalous,"[25][26] and complicit.[27]
In 2018, Ruedas was assigned as the UN's Deputy Special Representative and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq.[28]
References
edit- ^ "Danesh Meets UNDP Chair-Woman". Bakhtar News, November 24, 2014.
- ^ "Sudan, UN sign MoU on combating terrorism and extremism.". Sudan Tribune. 21 June 2016
- ^ "Ms. Marta Ruedas Resident Coordinator of the United Nations". Sudan Vision, 28th June, 2016
- ^ "UN warning over Sudan aid funding shortfall". The Guardian, 17 August 2016
- ^ ABREES: Abstracts Russian and East European Series. Vol. 32. ABREES Limited. 2002. p. 12.
- ^ Stara Planina Order The Official Gazette, (of what?) June 27, 2003.
- ^ "President Awards Marta Ruedas Stara Planina Order". Novinite Sofia News Agency, June 20, 2003.
- ^ "UN Finances Destruction of Weapon Surpluses in Bulgaria". Novinite | February 21, 2003
- ^ "Lebanon: Combating Desertification in the Aarsal Area". World Environment TV.
- ^ "Donors losing interest in demining Lebanon". Landmine.de, 13.09.2009
- ^ "Development trends in Lebanon: ‘It's always hard to tell’". Devex, Sam Mednick, 12 January 2010.
- ^ "20,000 educated Lebanese leave per year". Daily Star. Patrick Galey. Oct. 07, 2009
- ^ "UNDP-Deutsche Post DHL partnership" Relief Web
- ^ "Advancing women's participation in peacebuilding: what are the next steps in implementation?" Wilton Park. 27 March 2013
- ^ "UN expert calls for end to conflict and violence in Darfur and protection of civilians". Straits Times, Feb 6, 2016
- ^ "UK donates $10m to fund humanitarian work in Sudan". Middle East Monitor. 07 September 2015
- ^ "Brief Interview conducted by Acting Editor-in-Chief with Ms Marta Ruedas". Sudan Vision, Issue #: 3768, Issue Date: 7th February, 2016
- ^ "Jebel Marra clashes : over 21.000 IDPs reach UNAMID site in N. Darfur". Sudan Tribune, 3 February 2016
- ^ "UN relief official concerned about new displacement in North Darfur". Xinhuanet 2016-02-25
- ^ "Soudan: l'ONU s'inquiète du sort de plus de 85 000 déplacés au Darfour". Magazine humanitaire Sans Frontières, 29-02-2016
- ^ "President al-Bashir, UN official discuss humanitarian challenges in Sudan". Sudan Tribune, February 16, 2017
- ^ "A joint United Nations-Government of Sudan mission visits Sortony IDP site, North Darfur". Panorama Magazine, 2017-05-09
- ^ "Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General | UN Press". press.un.org. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ Dabanga (2018-04-27). "UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan honoured by Al Bashir". Dabanga Radio TV Online. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ "Gen Bashir's award for UN official is a scandal by all measures. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ SudanTribune (2018-04-28). "Gen Bashir's award for UN official is a scandal by all measures". Sudan Tribune. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ "UN Complicity in the Darfur Genocide Takes Many Forms". Sudan Research, Analysis, and Advocacy. 2018-04-28. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ^ "UN's Iraq Rep Ruesas Took ICC Indicted Bashir's Award, ICP Got UN To Confirm Guterres Met Him". Inner City Press, Matthew Russell Lee, April 30, 2018.