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Renowned Syrian dissident lawyer and judge, 80-year old Haitham Maleh, believes the continuing brutality of President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, which has led to a death toll of over 5,000, is a sign that ...
To see clearly is a difficult task. At night, or when there is too much light, when tired, or when too many people are around, where the rush of events is clouding our ability to ...
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 ...
Exactly one year ago, the Global Journal was founded jointly in Geneva and New York, a transatlantic link between two heartlands of the United Nations. What was unforeseen was that a bridge would also rapidly ...
We thought the word “progress” had disappeared from the dictionary, replaced by a blank space and a note: “See ‘crisis’ or ‘depression’”. And here it is making a comeback where least expected. The lead weight ...
If the idea of world governance is disturbing, the idea of an actual world government, the stage for the final dispossession of national sovereignty, is alarming. Should we regret the time when the master of ...
The Mayor of Geneva, Ms Sandrine Salerno, has decided to question her city, and de facto her canton, on its role as a global city in the game of global governance. Returning from Mexico at ...
Blaise Lampen, journalist and correspondent to the United Nations for the Swiss agency ATS, has just brought out his latest book. Eight years of a journal, where the writer gives us his personal view of ...
Iran will be the country to watch in 2011. Convictions that will lead to future action are building up. There is little doubt that the process of peace in the Middle-East will be one of ...
In an increasingly disaster prone world, leaders from the UN, the World Bank, NGOs and countries recently hit by natural disasters agreed on a global road map for how best to rebuild after fires, floods ...
We are used to thinking about tribunals as having all the means, and the power, necessary to shed light on criminal acts. This fundamental idea is even more indispensable when it is at the service ...
‘Global Governance’ is a victory whose time will come. If we cannot yet imagine a world government or the passing of our current national governments, it is still obvious that global issues are increasingly the ...
After nearly a year at the head of the American mission in Geneva, US Ambassador to the UN, Betty King, gave a press conference on December 16. An exercise that she admits is not her ...
Germany is experiencing some difficult moments with the euro. Not only has the quality of its products created the best trade surplus, neck and neck with China, but it must also cope with a single ...
Like a photograph, numbers can also be worth a thousand words. With little need for lengthy comment, they have a way of bringing us back to reality. In this case, we are talking not percentages ...
Swiss watchmaker Marc A. Hayek cherishes those who make watches and those who love them. In this interview he talks about looking towards a global market and the surprises he faces when thinking locally and ...
Whatever the process, whoever is in charge, we always come back to wondering how current policies will shape the future. Are the men and women running our governments and institutions around the world able to ...
Maria van der Hoeven, a former economics minister in the Netherlands, took over as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in September. She is taking over amid concerns that the I.E.A. is ...
Do you feel as though you are helping to bring about a form of soft governance? If this phrase does not seem appropriate, which words would you choose? If what you mean by that is ...
The City, the World's Local Laboratory Sandrine Salerno, Mayor of Geneva since June 1, 2010, is convinced that the future of global governance starts at the local level. Here, she explains how cities should ...
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan took office on May 3rd as the new Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG) after resigning his position as chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in ...
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera of Uganda has been given the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders for her courage as a gay activist defending minority rights. Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda and can be ...
2012 is dawning much better than our usual fearmongers were predicting. Chiefly, perhaps, because 2011 was a dramatic year, with its share of terrors and a multitude of surprises. From here on, there are many ...
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 ...
The candidate Obama vowed that he would address climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollutants. Copenhagen was an occasion when, besides opposition from the Chinese authorities, every one was ...
On January 1, 2011, euro banknotes and coins were introduced successfully in Estonia, the 17th member State of the European Union to adopt the euro. Until January 14th, it will be possible to pay in ...
A few weeks ago, Alexander Khloponin, the Russian President’s special envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, said that his first task should be to support and rely on a Cossack revival as part ...
Upside-down Russia is the scene of betrayal of many principles. While Natalya Estemirova still waits in her tomb for an investigation into her shooting, in Chechnya in July 2009, her former colleague and chairman of ...
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