Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 6, 2018
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In the dark shadows of rising populism and hypernationalistic leaders, attempts to intimidate reporters and curb the exchange of information are taking on less visibly crude but still dangerous forms. The menace, highlighted in the United States by Donald…
- Categories: Governance, Journalists, Peace and Security, Take a Look
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 19, 2017
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David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary, has been president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee since 2013, overseeing both the agency’s humanitarian relief operations and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in several American cities. The son…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Poverty, Refugees
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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…
- Categories: BOOKS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 9, 2017
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The 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which came into force in 2016, commits nearly every nation in the world to lowering greenhouse gas emissions, a first major step toward global consensus and cooperation on combating climate change after…
- Categories: Climate Change
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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…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees, UN Special Envoys
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- Opinion by Claudia Arbizu de Lavagnino
- • June 17, 2015
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El Salvador is one of the most violent and dangerous countries in the world. It is so difficult a place to live that tens of thousands of migrants have been taking El Tren de la Muerte, or The Train…
- Categories: OPINIONS