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Putting all your eggs is one basket has never proved to be an effective investment strategy. The Republic of Kazakhstan, a post-Soviet Central Asian state with a population of 16.6 million, has come a ...
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 ...
Only three months after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is being criticized for remarks she made about gay acts at a time when the country is considering strengthening punishments ...
Mark Mazower is an award-winning historian and writer, specializing in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World, tells the story of the rise of internationalism following the ...
Tourism in south Asia generated approximately USD 103.8bn or 4.8% of the region’s total GDP in 2011. While this may seem significant, the relative contribution of the tourism industry to its national ...
Washington, DC: After a 21-year battle, Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa P. Jackson has announced (December 21) the adoption of Mercury Air Toxics Standards. The first of its kind in the United ...
Humanitarian action inadequately takes into account gender issues. According to the 2011 Humanitarian Response Index released by DARA (March 7, 2012), there is a significant gap in understanding of the importance of gender concerns by ...
Officials from Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro signed a joint declaration in Belgrade, Serbia (November 8), to close down refugee centers and provide housing for some 74,000 people displaced by the Balkan wars of ...
Open letter to Secretary-General of the United Nations Appointment of the next Secretary-General of UNCTAD Dear Mr. Secretary-General, Later this year, you will be nominating to the General Assembly your choice of the next Secretary-General ...
On a whirlwind visit to Switzerland (October 17), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon had strong words for world leaders preparing for the G-20 Summit in Cannes in early November, reminding once again that the world ...
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 ...
Journalists asked Sami Layouni, a Tunisian male citizen, why he participated in a street protest in Tunis on Monday 13 August. “We are here to support women and to say that women must support women ...
A large majority of the global population still has limited or no access to electricity, which impedes the possibility of technological advancement. This finding forms the centerpiece of the Technology and Innovation Report presented by ...
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, an online, free-content encyclopaedia that has grown into the fifth most visited website globally. Wales established the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation in 2003 to support Wikipedia ...
The Green Climate Fund held its first Board meeting in Geneva last week (23-25 August). The organization will be the main channel to disburse the 100 billion USD to be allocated yearly– according to pledges ...
Never has the world witnessed a large market emerge so quickly as China. As the economy grows, it is also changing. China is fast climbing the value curve, transitioning from low-cost manufacturing to innovation-led growth ...
While US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met privately with members of the Syrian National Council at a hotel in Geneva (December 6), journalists were diverted to the nearby UN headquarters to await what was ...
Opinion piece by Saïd Benarbia, Middle East & North Africa Senior Legal Adviser at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Mazen Darwish is one of the most prominent human rights lawyers and defenders in Syria ...
Police misconduct and violence continues throughout the world, often without any oversight, accountability or justice for the victims. Recent deaths of civilians by police officers in New York, violent repression of “Occupy” protestors, and rampant ...
The Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) has appealed to governments, NGOs and private companies to send proposals for shaping the agenda for a UN Working Group on human rights and transnational ...
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 ...
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 ...
Long affected by war, Somalia seemed to emerge from years of hopelessness on Monday (10 September) with the election of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud by the country’s transitional parliamentarians. Widely applauded by the international community ...
At the Global Health Diplomacy Symposium held in Geneva (November 23), speakers illustrated the complex relationship between public health concerns, trade and intellectual property. Traditional actors in the global health arena, including WHO alongside current ...
2012 has been declared the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. Capturing one of Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s priorities in his second term, it seeks to meet three objectives by 2030: Ensuring universal access ...
It was with such an idea that Jeremy Gilley, an actor and movie producer turned militant, obtained World Peace Day, to be celebrated each 21st of September by the United Nations. In 2001, the UN ...
The upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in Dubai looms as a moment of truth for the Internet’s governing rules and economic model. In all, representatives of 193 countries will come together to ...
Following a lonely French intervention in Mali, and growing tensions between the United States and North Korea – NATO is facing new challenges and thus forced to redefine the definition of security. The Global Journal sat ...
There is a place where over the last 11 years human rights are systematically being violated on a daily basis. Locked up in dark detention cells, without ever seeing their family or other visitors save ...
OSLO—The Nobel Peace Prize is a legacy of Swedish businessman and inventor Alfred Nobel, the nobility of its aim, to reward those who strive for peace, is seldom questioned, given that the answer seems ...
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