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The BBC's Laura Trevelyan offers a very good rundown of the (h/t UK Foreign Office) three day summit at the United Nations General Assembly on how the financial crisis is affecting poor countries.
Ed Note: Last week, The Lancet published an editorial and two studies about the current state of global health initiatives for the developing world. The following is a response to The Lancet from Andrea Gay, Exeucitve Director of Children's Health at the United Nations Foundation and Dr. ...
In an article about the increasing diplomatic pressure and military build-up in the melting Arctic Circle, this is the extent of the response that Reuters got from a top U.S. official: "We will seek cooperative strategies," U.S...
A health problem you might not expect to find in Uganda: obesity. The chairman of the (Nobel Prize-winning) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on why halting global warming is an environmental imperative -- and how it can bring other benefits as well. Um, CO2 not a pollutant...
...comes from the mouth of Nick Burns, who was once effectively paid by the U.S...
Listen to former UN Ambassador, former Director of National Intelligence, former Ambassador to Iraq and former Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte explain why the United State's decision to join the Human Rights Council. As an added bonus, Negroponte also extols the virtues of UN ...
Excuse me if I find some irony in Ethiopia declining the Somali government's request to send troops, when all indicators point to the likelihood that Ethiopia already sent some of its troops "reconnaissance missions" over the border weeks ago...
The UN Refugee Agency just posted this video of Angelina Jolie speaking at an event in Washington, D.C. yesterday to commemorate World Refugee Day.
The International Criminal Court yesterday formally ordered that Jean Pierre Bemba, a former Congolese vice president and militia leader, stand trial on charges that he commanded his militia in a campaign of rape, murder and pillage in the Central African Republic...
The UN announced yesterday that its top diplomat in Iraq, Staffan de Mistura, will be leaving his post to become the deputy executive director of the World Food Program. Congratulations are in order for Mr...
Reports from the Hill suggest that the House and Senate conference committee have agreed on language for the final FY09 Emergency Supplemental, replete with language for the full repayment of UN arrears...
On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swore in Melanne Verveer, a longtime friend and former chief of staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton, to be Ambassador at Large for Global Women's Issues. I've known people who have worked with Verveer and they have nothing but great things to say ...
