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Interview with Joseph Deiss, former President of the 65th session of the General Assembly Imagine that your organization did not exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How would it ...
Over two thousand Tamils gathered in front of the United Nations in Geneva (March 5, 2012) to appeal to the Human Rights Council to support a genuine process of reconciliation in Sri Lanka. The protesters ...
No stone has been left unturned – or so it seems. Syria is experiencing a full-scale civil war. If Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, the world's most eminent diplomatic figure and renowned mediator resigned ...
US President Barack Obama’s address to the UN General Assembly’s annual General Debate, as part of the opening of its 67th session, was very much focused on the ‘Arab world’ and the territories ...
“There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.” These words, spoken by American Lt Col James Doolittle in April 1942, in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, are as true ...
Abdalla Abbas former Director, UN-HABITAT, Geneva Office Eugene Adoboli former Prime Minister, Togo Manuel Agosin Dean and Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Chile Yilmaz Akyüz former Director, UNCTAD Xavier ...
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 ...
While Brazil is considered one of the BRICS countries for its advanced economic development, its record on maternal health is abysmal. But hopefully that will be changing after the United Nations Committee on the Elimination ...
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 ...
What completely preventable disease can kill someone in a matter of hours through dehydration and is caused by contaminated water and food? The answer? Cholera. And it’ is ravaging the Caribbean nation of Haiti as ...
Syria is a sharp reminder of precisely why we need a strong Arms Trade Treaty. The distressing scenes of ferocious and unrelenting military assaults on Syrian cities, are a sharp reminder that the world needs ...
Last Thursday (28 June), I was on the schedule to deliver testimony at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. I was invited to be part of UN Watch's campaign to stop Hugo ...
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 ...
At WCIT-12 in Dubai in December, the 193 member states of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) met to review a treaty that has formed the global framework for telecommunications regulation for almost 25 years. A ...
On 12 January 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti. In a country already struggling with huge developmental challenges, the disaster killed more than 300,000 people and left ...
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh, Allen Lane, £25.00. Kofi Annan’s Interventions is one of those rare books allowing the reader to feel they have gained access ...
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 ...
The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) is to hold an event today (February 27) on the current and future status of youth employment, “Breaking new ground: Partnerships for more and ...
Last year in Geneva during GLOBAL+5, our inaugural festival of global governance, David Held – a seasoned academic versed in the topic and born to be a member of our jury – was very much preoccupied ...
Since the 1980s, a Ugandan rebel group calling themselves the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been raping and murdering civilians and turning young children into killing machines in an area of Africa that includes ...
Flavia Bustreo and Mario Merialdi both have long experience linked to the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality worldwide. Within the World Health Organization they have already carried out several projects addressing issues related to ...
Are you happy? While this may sound like a frivolous question, in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and increasingly around the world, happiness is serious business. Last month for the first time ever, the United ...
Dominic Sam is Liberia’s United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Country Director. A UN official of many years’ standing, Dominic Sam has worked in Cameroon, the United States and Liberia. His views are based on ...
Lifesaving assistance to refugees. HQ Location: United States Founded in 1933 at the request of none other than Albert Einstein, the New York-based International Rescue Committee offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced ...
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