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Amid a busy December, when the United Nations was focusing on important conferences on climate change and migration and year-end holidays loomed, a case of harassment that never got the traction it arguably deserved ended in a traditional UN way: it disappeared. On Dec. 14, the chairman of the International Civil Service Commission, which regulates … Read more

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Data Miners See Poverty Gradations; and More Cases of Harassment at the UN

April 21, 2018April 11, 2018 by Barbara Crossette

International organizations, governments and a vast army of nongovernmental organizations justifiably welcome the sharp reductions that have been achieved in global poverty in recent decades. Data researchers show, however, that when it comes to defining who are the poorest, poverty is not a monolithic state. Two analysts from the online site Our World in Data, … Read more

Another UN Harassment Case Quietly Disappears

Data Miners See Poverty Gradations; and More Cases of Harassment at the UN

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