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Interview with Helen Clark, United Nations Development Programme, UNDP Administrator and former Prime Minister of New Zealand: Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do ...
Interview with Pascal Lamy, Director General, World Trade Organization, WTO. Confronting the difficulties of closing the Doha Round, the WTO is under pressure to find a way to rebound. Handling the ‘wheel’ is one thing ...
The week before the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change talks open in Durban, South Africa, UN Secretary Ban ki-Moon told the Security Council (November 23) that climate change should be treated as a threat ...
Earlier this month Edit Schaffler, Executive Director of Women Without Borders, came to New York City to tell the world that mothers can stop terrorism in its tracks: “We see potential change coming from the ...
A young Egyptian Red Crescent volunteer, in Geneva to attend the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (November 28-December 1), said that the current demonstrations in Tahrir Square are a warning to ...
Speaking at the 2011 Halifax International Security Forum, Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, warned that Iran continued to be a “major challenge, not just to Israel, but to the whole world’’ adding that "nuclear Iran ...
Interview with Antonio Guterres, High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How would it be ...
The regulatory atmosphere for local entrepreneurs trying to start a business was made easier around the world in 2010-2011 with the greatest improvement found in several African and Eastern European countries. The World Bank presented ...
Interview with Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, United Nations Programme on AIDS/HIV Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How would it be fundamentally ...
To mark Universal Children's Day, an agreement was reached in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR) (November 20) to release child soldiers held by the CPJP (Convention des patriotes pour la justice et la paix ...
The number of AIDS-related deaths fell to the lowest levels since the peak in 2005 although it continues to be a problem in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. A report released (21 November) by UNAIDS ...
Africa is being cooked by climate change, and those causing the crisis should compensate the victims. This is probably the only hope for any top-down action at the Durban COP17 next month, with the Green ...
by Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as a result of the UN Stockholm Conference ...
The resettlement of 500,000 refugees from the 2010 Haitian earthquake has been aggravated by land ownership issues on the island, according to the IOM (International Organization for Migration). According to Jean-Phillipe Chauzy, IOM's ...
The first wind power consumer label, WindMade, has announced that 15 companies have pledged to derive a minimum of 25% of their electricity consumption from wind power. The announcement comes a few weeks after the ...
Toshi Nakamura and Ewa Wojkowska worked for the United Nations for a decade in Indonesia, Sierra Leone and across Asia. Although they saw some very interesting projects and important initiatives, they also saw a tremendous ...
The positive and negative consequences of submitting personal data on social networks and online applications, known as 'life-logging' is the subject of a report by Europe’s biggest cyber-security agency, ENISA (European Network and Information ...
Interview with Francis Gurry, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) Director General. Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you build? How would it be fundamentally different ...
Turkey's threat to cut electricity exports to Syria, part of an effort to pressure the Syrian government to halt its deadly attacks on protestors, illuminates a hidden dynamic of international relations: how aspects of ...
The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) warned (November 9) that long-term gas supplies will become increasingly unaffordable under oil-linked supply agreements. The IEA's World Energy Outlook 2011, jointly presented with the UN Economic Commission ...
When considering Timothy Geithner’s, US Secretary of Treasury, obsession to cast Europe as the most serious obstacle to the global economic recovery it seems that he has a secret dream: to become EU’s ...
Shortly before the COP17 climate change talks open in Durban (Nov 28- Dec. 9), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued an urgent appeal nations to commit to a Green Climate Fund to prevent a collapse of ...
The latest edition of the Low Carbon Economy Index finds that for the first time since 2000 there has been no improvement in the rate of decarbonisation among the G20 countries. In fact, the index ...
The Global Journal has welcomed three new additions to its international team. New members include André Schneider, head of the Andre Schneider Global Advisory and former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Andr ...
Leaders of 12 countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have agreed on the broad outlines of an ambitious free trade accord for promoting innovation and growth to kick-start world economies. The TPP agreement was announced ...
Two international trade organizations, the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and UNCTAD (UN Conference on Trade and Development) released a joint Report (October 26) praising the G20 nations for "continuing to honor their ...
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 ...
The role of entrepreneurs in finding innovative ways to turn creativity and ingenuity into new products and new technologies was heralded at two separate events in Geneva as crucial to driving future economic growth. Geneva ...
Interview with Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD. Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How would it ...
The bleak choice was offered in an interview with a leading German newspaper by former Foreign Affairs Minister and Vice Chancellor, Joschka Fischer, who told the leading German newspaper Die Zeit that the EU has ...
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