Dilma Rousseff
- Opinion by Torild Skard
- • August 15, 2017
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OSLO — The last year has brought troubling events for feminists who are striving to see more women win top political leadership positions. Two female presidents, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and Park Guen-hye of South Korea, had to leave office …
- Categories: Governance, OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 22, 2016
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The United Nations threw a large and lavish party at its headquarters in New York on Earth Day, the opening day of the signing ceremony for the world’s new climate agreement. About 170 heads of state and government representatives came …
- Categories: Climate Change, Secretary-General
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 9, 2015
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With barely two days left to reach an international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming, a new version of the draft agreement was released Wednesday in Paris. But outstanding disputes remain over how much nations will …
- Categories: Climate Change
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 7, 2015
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The second and supposedly final week of negotiations on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, amid now-measurable climate change, began on Monday at the COP21 in Paris with a draft global accord on the table. It is, however, littered with hundreds of …
- Categories: Climate Change
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 24, 2013
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The annual United Nations debate of the 68th General Assembly got off to a contentious start on Sept. 24 with pointedly worded but divergent speeches by Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, and Barack Obama, the president of the United States. The …
- Categories: General Assembly
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