Juan Manuel Santos

UN Puts on Big To-Do, Amid Tight Security, for Signing of New Climate Agreement

April 22, 2016

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 to inscribe their names, in alphabetical order by country, in the General Assembly Hall, …

Climate and Environment, Secretary-General

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Colombia Needs to Take a Gendered Approach to Make Peace Last

January 18, 2016

by Gimena Sánchez

WASHINGTON, D.C. — While most combatants in Colombia’s conflict have been men, women’s participation in the construction of peace is badly needed for peace to be sustainable. When the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325, mandating the full, equal participation of women at peace talks, it was an attempt to bridge the gap …

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Despite Peace Talks, Colombians Are Still Terrified of the FARC

August 31, 2015

by Johanna Higgs

MEDELLIN, Colombia — “There is conflict in every single country in the world,” a 16-year-old former combatant from the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, rebel group said at a rehabilitation center for demobilized child soldiers here in Colombia’s third-largest city. Yet when it was pointed out that there was no conflict in …

Child Soldiers, Human Rights, Latin America, Women

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Juan Manuel Santos

UN Puts on Big To-Do, Amid Tight Security, for Signing of New Climate Agreement

Colombia Needs to Take a Gendered Approach to Make Peace Last

Despite Peace Talks, Colombians Are Still Terrified of the FARC

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