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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 2, 2022
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It was billed as a grand ceremony staged by the United Nations Association of Germany to award its biennial Otto Hahn Peace Medal to Navi Pillay, marking her decades of groundbreaking work in human rights and international criminal law,…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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- N'Dongo Athie
- • December 10, 2019
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What:Â The small and colorful United Nations Association gift shop has been located in the same exact spot since it opened in 1974, in Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. It sells everything from artisanal jewelry and baskets…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 25, 2018
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In the wake of a spate of school shootings in the United States this year, students of high school and college age are forming political campaigns for change as the country moves toward critical legislative elections in November. These…
- Categories: Education, US Foreign Relations
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- Opinion by Karen Mulhauser
- • April 10, 2015
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every year at the United Nations, the Commission on the Status of Women brings together an impressive array of global leaders to publicly state their support for gender equality. This year’s meeting, occurring in March, was…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Opinion by A. Edward Elmendorf
- • April 27, 2014
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The concept of universality and how it would play out in devising the future set of United Nations development goals drew significant attention among a group of more than 1,000 Americans who participated in the continuing international conversation centered on…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Tino Calabia
- • December 18, 2013
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The seventh anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities at United Nations headquarters in New York was commemorated on Dec. 13. Since March 2007, when it opened for signature, the convention has been…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Tino Calabia
- • April 18, 2013
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WASHINGTON — If the term “track two” sounds like an announcement at Grand Central Terminal in New York, it has an altogether different meaning farther east at United Nations headquarters. Diplomats there suspect they’re hearing “track two” talks; that is,…
- Categories: Asia, Peace and Security
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