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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 29, 2020
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Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis, the reputation of the agency has been damaged far less than…
- Categories: Covid-19, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 4, 2014
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The 2014 United Nations Human Development Report appeared at the end of July wrapped around the title “Sustaining Human Progress,” a goal that moves beyond meeting the targets that can measure achievement at any given time but cannot promise…
- Categories: Development, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 24, 2014
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What happened at the annual United Nations women’s conference this year? Over 10 days of both mercifully brief and far-too-long speeches by policy people, government ministers, UN staff members and a wide array of other experts, the 58th session of…
- Categories: Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 23, 2013
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After years in the shadows, and under attack from left and right, a campaign to put action into the demand that every woman should have the right to contraception is finally gaining momentum — or regaining the central role…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 13, 2012
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Every once in a while an event takes place in relative obscurity that nonetheless holds the potential to change the world. That is not a small statement, but it may prove applicable in coming years to the family planning…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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