Shazia Z. Rafi
Shazia Z. Rafi was Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action from 1996-2013 and the first woman on the ballot and runner-up finalist for the Inter-Parliamentary Union Secretary-General election. She is the president of a nonprofit group helping national legislatures to improve air quality in Asia: www.airqualityasia.org.
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Rafi is a Women's Media Center SheSource expert on international security, international law, women's rights and the environment. She lives in New York City and her website is www.shaziarafi.com (http://shaziarafi.com).
- Opinion by Shazia Z. Rafi
- • June 3, 2017
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President Trump announced recently to a baffled world that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Or in his own inimitable words, “we are leaving, . . . we will renegotiate a better deal . . . #AmericaFirst.”  …
- Categories: Climate Change, OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations
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- Shazia Z. Rafi
- • February 18, 2016
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Corridor diplomacy — private nonmeetings, informal discussions — has been the norm at the United Nations since its founding 70 years ago. It is the preferred method of its most powerful organ, the Security Council, particularly now, as the election …
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General
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- Shazia Z. Rafi
- • September 18, 2015
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As a relentless remake of the Middle East and North Africa has been taking place, mass displacements of populations have also been occurring. And more chaos is ahead, says the United States Defense Intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, in …
- Categories: Middle East, Migration, Refugees, UN Agencies
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- Shazia Z. Rafi
- • August 17, 2015
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Remarkably after a yearlong effort by environmental health advocates, air quality has been embedded in the new set of universal development goals for a sustainable future. Since an estimated 60 percent of the global population will live in cities by …
- Categories: Asia, Climate Change, Health and Population, SDGs
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- Shazia Z. Rafi
- • May 28, 2015
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Negotiations are entering the last stages of formulating the Sustainable Development Goals. For over a year, governments, the United Nations system, nongovernment organizations and parliamentarians have been engaged in negotiations on the next set of development goals, called SDGs, to …
- Categories: Climate Change, SDGs, UN Agencies
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