Laurent Gbagbo
- Essan Emile Ako
- • January 9, 2017
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — The 2008 United States presidential election was an incredible time for me, here in West Africa. The election contributed to shaping my leadership skills and affected the course of my life. I used to take…
- Categories: Africa, Education, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 8, 2016
THE HAGUE — At the glassy, eco-minded new building of the International Criminal Court here in the Netherlands’ capital, people who are being tried may still be called “detainees,” but make no mistake: they remain accused of such atrocities…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice
- Essan Emile Ako
- • August 2, 2015
As the managing director of a community-based radio station in one of the most populated and underserved urban areas of Abidjan, the commercial capital of the Ivory Coast, I am working in a neighborhood of about 1.5 million people…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Lucia Mouat
- • January 21, 2015
The post of United Nations secretary-general may or may not be “the world’s most impossible job,” as its first occupant, Trygve Lie, a Norwegian, once described it. In any case, UN members must choose a successor to Secretary-General Ban…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 9, 2013
One of Fatou Bensouda‘s missions as the new chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court is to make rape during conflicts a thing of the past. Until 20 years ago, she said in a speech at the United Nations…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Women
- Hugh Breakey - Charles Sampford - Ramesh Thakur
- • December 10, 2012
CANBERRA, Australia — A steady rise has been occurring in the last two centuries in the proportion of civilians killed in armed conflict, either from direct violence or conflict-related hunger and disease. The international community has responded to the…
- Categories: Responsibility to Protect, WORLDVIEWS
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