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BLUE SMOKE: A monthly column, from PassBlue and UNA–UK, spotlighting senior appointments at the UN

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What to Expect at the UN’s First Migration and Refugee Summit Meeting

Dulcie Leimbach
• September 17, 2016

How do you solve the refugee and migrant crisis? At the United Nations, which has by default inherited the pressing problem of the biggest movement of people from their homes since the end of World War II, you hold meetings, …

Categories: Migration, Refugees

It’s Time to Pay Teachers Better, Unesco Emphasizes

Danielle M. Bennett
• February 23, 2014

What can be done to educate the 250 million children, mostly in South Asia, West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, who lack basic reading and math skills by the time they reach adulthood? The answer to this global learning crisis, a …

Categories: Africa, Asia, Education

‘I Am the Same Malala,’ the 16-Year-Old Pakistani Proclaimed at the UN

Dulcie Leimbach
• July 12, 2013

Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head nine months ago by the Taliban for attending school, spoke to nearly 500 young people at the United Nations Malala Day Youth Assembly on July 12, her birthday. …

Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Peace and Security

Top New UN Assignments, and Syria Deputy Envoy Leaving

Dulcie Leimbach
• July 18, 2012

Adama Dieng, the registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, has been named the United Nations secretary-general’s special adviser on the prevention of genocide. Dieng, a Senegalese, replaces Francis Deng of Sudan, who has been in the post since …