Joanne Myers
Joanne Myers is director of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs' Public Affairs Programs, for which she is responsible for planning and organizing more than 50 public programs a year, many of which have been featured on C-SPAN's Booknotes.
Previously, Myers was director of the Consular Corps/Deputy General Counsel at the New York City Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol, where she acted as the liaison between the mayor of New York and the consulates general. Myers holds a J.D. from the Benjamin C. Cardozo School of Law and a B.A. in international relations from the University of Minnesota.
- Joanne Myers
- • December 11, 2019
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On a busy day of a busy week and year, Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, spoke frankly in an interview about her role as the first woman to be appointed to this position …
- Categories: US-UN Relations, Women
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- Joanne Myers
- • August 13, 2019
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David Kaye, a leading voice on human rights in the digital age, is also a United Nations special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, a post he has held since August 2014. The author of a …
- Categories: Human Rights, UN Special Envoys
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- Joanne Myers
- • June 11, 2018
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Barbie Latza Nadeau is an American journalist based in Rome, covering the large refugee migrations from the Middle East and Africa since 2011, often with an emphasis on women. She has recently written a book, “Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Migration, Women
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- Joanne Myers
- • January 15, 2018
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Marie Deschamps is a former justice on the Supreme Court of Canada who led the groundbreaking 2015 United Nations report of an independent review on sexual exploitation and abuse by international peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic. Deschamps agreed …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, UN Peacekeeping
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- Joanne Myers
- • October 21, 2017
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Early in October, as director of Public Affairs Programs for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, I interviewed Gary Wills, the prize-winning historian and religious scholar, to discuss his latest book, titled “What the Qur’an Meant: And Why …
- Categories: BOOKS
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- Joanne Myers
- • April 1, 2017
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From Asia and Africa to Europe and the Americas, women remain important forces of change as government leaders in the modern era. Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister after its independence, was one of the earliest …
- Categories: BOOKS
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- Joanne Myers
- • November 26, 2016
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Since 1901, Nobel Prizes have been presented to the designated laureates at ceremonies held on Dec. 10 , the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. As stipulated in his will, the prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine and literature are …
- Categories: BOOKS
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- Joanne Myers
- • November 9, 2016
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Recently, I spoke with Jan-Werner Muller, who is currently a fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna and teaches politics at Princeton University, where he is also the founding director of the History of Political Thought Project. He …
- Categories: Governance, US Foreign Relations
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- Joanne Myers
- • October 1, 2016
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At the end of this year, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will complete his 10-year tenure and the ninth secretary-general will take office on Jan. 1. Whether the new secretary-general will be male or female, most would agree that he …
- Categories: BOOKS
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- Joanne Myers
- • September 14, 2016
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As the special envoy to the United Nations secretary-general on international migration since 2006, Peter Sutherland, an Irishman, has minced few words on the topic of people leaving their homes in search of better lives. In his role at the …
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees, UN Special Envoys
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- Joanne Myers
- • July 16, 2016
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On Sept. 19, the United Nations will hold its first-ever high-level summit meeting on refugees and migrants, which, given a staggering 65 million people now on the move, may rank as the organization’s most pressing global issue for years to …
- Categories: BOOKS
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