Laurent Gbagbo
- Opinion by Essan Emile Ako
- • January 9, 2017
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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 part …
- Categories: Africa, Education, OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 8, 2016
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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 as …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice
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- Opinion by Essan Emile Ako
- • August 2, 2015
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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 facing …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Lucia Mouat
- • January 21, 2015
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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 Ki-moon …
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 9, 2013
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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 recently, …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Human Rights, ICC, International Justice, Women
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- Opinion by Hugh Breakey - Charles Sampford - Ramesh Thakur
- • December 10, 2012
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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 calls …
- Categories: OPINIONS, Responsibility to Protect