Juan Manuel Santos
- 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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- Opinion by Gimena Sánchez
- • January 18, 2016
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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 …
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- Johanna Higgs
- • August 31, 2015
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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 …
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Human Rights, Latin America, Women