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The United Nations has taken a step forward in acknowledging the involvement of UN personnel in a human trafficking ring in post-war Bonsia by hosting a screening of the film, "The Whistleblower", at its New ...
How an unlikely pair of formidable women –a policewoman from Kansas and a UN diplomat from the UK– tried to stop human trafficking in post-war Bosnia. Kathryn Bolkovac was a good cop. Back in her ...
In a speech at Deutsche Bank in Berlin Thursday (Oct. 6th), World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy commented on the future of the multilateral trading system and advocated for WTO members to "keep multilateral cooperation ...
The exchange rate policy established by the Chinese government is not the only challenge for the American economy. Commenting this week (Oct. 5th) in Santiago, Chile on U.S. pressure to allow the yuan to ...
What is the future of printed media? Are we heading towards the disappearance of the traditional newspapers or a re-birth of the printed media through the digital world by the use of technology ? Francis Gurry ...
The film “The Whistleblower,” has brought back into focus the horrors that were inflicted on many, many women in Bosnia as a consequence of the conflict, this time, not the rape of women in war ...
The Special US Envoy for Climate Change, Todd Stern, said he is “not pessimistic” about a climate change conference scheduled for later this year but he warned that the US will back a revised Kyoto ...
Diplofoundation is a non-profit organization created in 2003 and based in Malta, unique in its vision of diplomacy as a field in need of greater inclusiveness through use of the internet. Its most emblematic achievement ...
There is one! Interpeace, a Geneva-based, UN-an affliated NGO has released just such a book, giving advice to emerging nations about how to go about the diffi cult process of creating a constitution. Scott Weber ...
Global governance issues are forcing universities and colleges to increase their capacity for research and understanding of phenomena outside the national sphere. For Pierre Tapie, what happens at the interface of the worlds of business ...
Dr Comtesse is among those who believe and support the emergence of new governance. Master in Mathematics and PhD in Computer Science (University of Geneva), Xavier L. Comtesse worked in academic institutions, as a start-up ...
Mallika Sarabhai is a noted Indian dancer and choreographer, turned political activist. She first came to international notice when she played a lead role in Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata, first in French and then ...
The United Nations New York headquarters has decided to organize a public screening of the controversial film The Whistleblower which doesn’t exactly make the UN look good. The film, starring Rachel Weisz and Vanessa ...
India is booming, yes. But behind the GNP figures, the people of India do not enjoy much of this new wealth. Professor of Economy, and Nobel Prize Winner in Economics in 1998, Armatya Sen explains ...
Kathryn Bolkovac was a good cop. Back in her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, the athletic Ms. Bolkovac once wrestled a fleeing criminal to the ground and disarmed him. Kathryn Bolkovac was just as thorough about ...
Beginning on July 1st, José Graziano da Silva of Brazil begins a four-year term as Director General of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), replacing Jacques Diouf of Senegal. Diouf’s 18-year tenure at ...
The policies and mechanisms for Internet governance were the subject of discussion at the US Mission in Geneva (May 20) in preparation for the 6th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) scheduled for September in Nairobi ...
A UN report timed for release to coincide with the Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed countries (LDCs) in Istanbul (May 10-13) , notes that countries with lower carbon profiles are better placed to make their ...
Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has set the Executive office of the R20 in Geneva with financial assistance from the Cantonal government. Located in Villa Montfleury, the executive secretariat will start operating in a couple of ...
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, has named a new director for global and multilateral issues within the EU’s new diplomatic service launched on December 1, 2010. Maria Marinaki, a Greek ...
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (2007-2010) will take an unpaid post at the Swiss-based World Economic Forum (WEF), known for its annual economic summit in Davos. Brown had widely been seen as the strongest ...
Jacques Attali to The Global Journal : "If Ban Ki-moon made a speech demanding the merging of the G20 and the Security Council he would not jeopardize his election, he would gain a lot of support ...
This simple question would alarm a lot of people. But not French essayist and former advisor to French President François Mitterrand, Jacques Attali. Before launching the Estates General of the World, he agreed to ...
In the columns of the Global Journal just one year ago, Pascal Lamy described global governance as politics still in the gaseous state. Over those 12 months, these “excited” electrons (we call them GIPS, or ...
The Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) received its two millionth international patent application in April, a landmark which WIPO hopes will encourage companies and inventors in multiple countries to seek patents. WIPOs Patent Corporation ...
It’s a car! It’s a truck! It’s an ambulance! Fuseproject’s Yves Béhar’s cute, new “hackable” car could be almost anything we want it to be. He designed this emerald-colored ...
Global Journal: What is the main concern of the Chinese monetary policy makers today? Dr Li Daokui: The main challenge to monetary policy makers in China is to strike a balance between controlling China’s ...
Beijing, January 7th, 2011 You and Beijing Global Journal: as an artist, living in Beijing for almost 20years, what do you most enjoy about being in this amazing megalopolis? (it seems that you live in ...
Since becoming Special Envoy for Eurasian energy in 2009, Richard L. Morningstar has had a lot on his plate. He has been making a business argument for many of the big energy projects in Europe ...
Tood Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change, US State Department Todd Stern undoubtedly has the most critical role in the US contemporary energy adventure. The Special Envoy for Climate Change, close to Hillary Clinton, in ...
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