Education
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 19, 2022
As education across the world faces tremendous challenges from the three C’s: climate change, conflicts and Covid-19, hitting the world’s youngest and most vulnerable children the hardest, the United Nations tackled the problem in a three-day summit that culminated…
- Categories: Education, General Assembly, Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 13, 2021
Far from Kabul in rural Afghanistan, where an economic crisis and a bitterly cold winter threaten starvation, communities with few resources have been reopening schools for girls up to grade 12. Collectively, these add up to an expansion of…
- Categories: Education
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 13, 2021
Nearly 200 students from Afghanistan, escaping the Taliban’s tightening grip on education, have been safely evacuated from Kabul under an ambitious plan led by the American University of Central Asia and the Kyrgyzstan government. About 60 percent of the…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 12, 2020
Iran continues to enrich low-grade uranium; the United Nations finally sent peacekeepers to protect Dr. Denis Mukwege, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, after he received more death threats; and the major General Assembly session of world leaders, starting Sept….
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Education, General Assembly, Human Rights, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- 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…
- Categories: Covid-19, Development, Education, Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 1, 2019
As outrage and horror build around stories of refugee children, some still in diapers, seized from their parents and suffering neglect and abuse along the United States border with Mexico, Unesco, the United Nations organization with education in its…
- Categories: Education, Migration, US-UN Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • November 24, 2018
So many nonprofits seem to be after your money these days. Even if you are eager to give it away, you want to be convinced that a given group is the most deserving. But how can you tell when…
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 25, 2018
In the wake of a spate of school shootings in the United States this year, students of high school and college age are forming political campaigns for change as the country moves toward critical legislative elections in November. These…
- Categories: Education, US Foreign Relations
- Joe Penney
- • June 12, 2018
BOBIGNY, France — On March 20, French President Emmanuel Macron stood before a crowd at the prestigious Académie Française in central Paris. With his trademark confidence and fastidious affect, he made his case for French as a global, 21st-century language unburdened…
- Categories: Africa, Education, Geopolitics
- Herman T. Salton
- • October 1, 2017
If you want to understand how Donald Trump’s America is being perceived by women in the global South, my students are a good place to start. I teach international relations at an all-female liberal arts college in Chittagong, Bangladesh,…
- Categories: Asia, Education, Nikki Haley Watch
- Marianna Bonanome and Samar ElHitti
- • July 4, 2017
An important meeting on global education with a dozen education ministers from across the world was held at the United Nations headquarters last week. As the meeting unfolded, we were sitting in our office a few miles away, across…
- Categories: Education, SDGs, WORLDVIEWS
- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • March 17, 2017
They have years to go before they could conceivably sit in the Security Council seat as the United States ambassador to the United Nations, participate in a high-level summit on refugees or cast a vote for their country in…
- Categories: Education, Security Council, UN Diplomats
- Joe Penney
- • February 7, 2017
TIMBUKTU — Down the road from the 700-year-old iconic Djinguereber mosque in this north-central Malian city lies the Al Qadi library, a private, family-owned collection holding hundreds of manuscripts from nearly a millennium ago. The manuscripts are priceless treasures of…
- Irwin Arieff
- • January 28, 2017
More than 700 educators and students, meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York recently, called on the international community to protect refugees’ lives, encourage countries to take in “large numbers of refugees and migrants” and do more to…
- Categories: Education, Human Rights, Middle East, Migration, Refugees, US Foreign Relations
- Essan Emile Ako
- • January 9, 2017
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — The 2008 United States presidential election was an incredible time for me, here in West Africa. The election contributed to shaping my leadership skills and affected the course of my life. I used to take…
- Categories: Africa, Education, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
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