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Missing the Love at the Canada-US Border Crossings

Laura E. Kirkpatrick
  •  July 23, 2020 
BUFFALO, N.Y. — In the middle of a recent Zoom meeting with colleagues, I commented about the presence of United Nations flags on international borders, like the ones that flew, some until recently, on certain bridge border crossings between Ontario, Canada, and New York State in the United States, over Lake Erie and the …

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The UN’s 75th Birthday: A Critical Chance for the Globe to Save Itself

Giovanna Kuele
  •  July 22, 2020 
As consensus was finally achieved on July 7, a final draft of the UN-75 political declaration has been approved and is expected to be adopted by world leaders on Sept. 21 at United Nations headquarters through virtual means. Given the political climate, the declaration is concise, clear, forward-looking and inspiring. But it is not …

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How to Land a Job at the UN, Even in a Pandemic

Stéphanie Fillion  and  Kacie Candela
  •  July 21, 2020 
Ever wonder how to crack the door open to a prestigious United Nations position? That’s a question that Stephanie Playford, the founder of United Career Coalition, was asked over and over again when she worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN entity based in Vienna. So she left that job and created …

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Does the New US Envoy for Women’s Rights Have Anything to Do?

Fiona Shukri
  •  July 13, 2020 
Six months into her job as the United States ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, Kelley Currie has done little to demonstrate that she can restore American leadership on women’s rights while reporting to an ideologically driven administration known for its regressive stance on gender equality. While the ambassador’s office is charged with promoting women’s …

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Don’t Even Try to Make Sense of Lockdown Rules in the ‘United’ Kingdom

Rhona Scullion
  •  July 9, 2020 
Photo of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
WHITCHURCH, England — Britain currently has the highest death toll from Covid-19 in Europe and the third-highest death rate in the world, according to the World Health Organization statistics. The central government in London is being repeatedly criticized for its handling of the crisis, while each of the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and …

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In the Pandemic, $3,200 Drugs for the Rich and Sanitizers Too Pricey for the Poor

Barbara Crossette
  •  July 6, 2020 
Across the world, the rise of nationalist leaders has prompted fears that democracy and international cooperation are endangered. Now the public health systems of many countries are also being menaced by the politics of authoritarianism in the Covid-19 pandemic era. On June 29, the United States announced that it had more or less cornered …

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Coronavirus Soars, Trump Golfs, Pence Falls: Who the Hell Is in Charge of the US?

Barbara Crossette
  •  June 30, 2020 
Deep uncertainty and unease are descending across the United States just as Americans are preparing to celebrate their most important “political” holiday, Independence Day, on July 4. Contrary to what Trump administration officials are proclaiming, the US is not containing the Covid-19 pandemic infection rate, which has suddenly surpassed its April high point, marking …

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The Pandemic’s Cruelty Visits the World’s Children

Barbara Crossette
  •  June 18, 2020 
There are about two billion young children in the world today, ranging from infancy to 14 years old, and most of them live in developing nations in the global south. That is also where the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading the fastest. Three of the top 10 countries in numbers of rapidly rising cases, as of …

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India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico and Norway to Join the UN Security Council

Stéphanie Fillion
  •  June 17, 2020 
An almost empty General Assembly Hall, masks of all types and colors and diplomats rejoicing to see their colleagues that they probably have seen only on their computer screens for months marked this year’s General Assembly elections at the United Nations. On June 17, Norway and Ireland won the two open seats on the …

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The Human Rights Council Confronts Racism in the USA

Stéphanie Fillion
  •  June 16, 2020 
photograph of Malcolm X
In the 1960s, the African-American activist Malcolm X launched a lobbying campaign to “internationalize” the civil rights movement in the United States by calling on the United Nations to focus on the lives of black Americans through a human-rights lens. “When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights,” Malcolm X …

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The Collateral Damage in Trump’s War on the WHO: Ending Polio for Good

Fiona Shukri
  •  June 15, 2020 
Families in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area
Already struggling with a surging Covid-19 pandemic, United Nations health agencies must now face the possible abdication of the United States’ leading role in fighting polio — just as the world gets tantalizingly close to eradicating it for good. Polio-free since 1979, the US has historically made combating the infectious disease its top funding …

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Biden’s Toughest Task: Linking Foreign Policy to a Changed America

Barbara Crossette
  •  June 10, 2020 
Joe Biden at Bethel AME Church Wilmington DE
With Joseph Biden taking an unassailable lead by June 7 as the Democratic Party’s choice for president of the United States, many Americans foresee a desperate, ugly political campaign for re-election by Donald Trump coming. The magnitude of his damage to America’s role in the world will be an issue for Democrats, along with …

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