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- Bill Orme
- • March 9, 2015
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There are three things you need to know about the negotiations over the United Nations’ next set of global development goals, which will be adopted by world leaders at the General Assembly this September and remain in effect for…
- Categories: SDGs
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 23, 2015
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Convinced that after 70 years it is time to choose a woman for the United Nations’ top job of secretary-general, a new movement led by an academic spcialist on the organization has been assembled to formally support the election…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 4, 2014
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The 2014 United Nations Human Development Report appeared at the end of July wrapped around the title “Sustaining Human Progress,” a goal that moves beyond meeting the targets that can measure achievement at any given time but cannot promise…
- Categories: Development, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 16, 2014
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Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, has appointed at least a dozen new people to high-level positions — including five women — primarily in Africa in the last few months, while the organization also loses some executives. Three new…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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- Opinion by Stephen Browne  and Thomas G. Weiss
- • June 10, 2014
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GENEVA — For those with longer memories, the latest dip in resources for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the staff cutbacks and restructuring announced by its administrator, Helen Clark, in May are merely the onset of another…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 26, 2014
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An unusual survey of 3,400 people worldwide who know the United Nations has found strong support for some basic rethinking over the next decade on the organization’s work in development. Among the recommendations, over two-thirds of respondents suggested adding…
- Categories: Development
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- Robert Piocciotto
- • March 5, 2014
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Recent events have confirmed that the United Nations has a deep reservoir of good will worldwide. But its reputation is undermined by the ineffectiveness of its development assistance. UN agencies could improve their performance by implementing effective evaluations. However,…
- Categories: Development, Humanitarian Aid
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- Ryan Villarreal
- • January 8, 2014
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For the past three decades, Costa Rica has carried out progressive steps to reduce violence against women, a major inhibitor of human and economic development in the country and throughout Latin America. While the issue has garnered more attention…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Latin America, UN Agencies, Women
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- Alice Speri
- • September 25, 2013
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With 827 days to go until the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals — the United Nations’ flagship agenda for global development — the buzzword at the General Assembly’s annual opening debate in New York this week was “acceleration.”…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Health and Population
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- Stephen Browne  and Craig N. Murphy
- • August 22, 2013
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Constant reform has characterized the United Nations Development Program throughout its existence, say the authors of two recent books on the agency. Change bespeaks an organization ready to adapt but also fundamentally uncertain about its proper role. It teeters…
- Categories: Development, UN Agencies
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- Stephen Browne
- • August 7, 2013
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At the end of 2012, Britain withdrew its membership from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, or Unido, the most recent of several major donor countries (including the United States and Canada) to do so. Although it has had…
- Categories: Development, UN Agencies
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 3, 2013
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If 2015 comes and goes with a significant number of Millennium Development Goals failing to meet their targets, questions will abound over whom or what to blame. There will also be skepticism over reports that a few of the…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 13, 2013
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For the developing world, the news in the 2013 United Nations Human Development Report is almost all good. (More on that “almost” later.) The title of the report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World,…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, Health and Population, Special Report
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- Tala Dowlatshahi
- • February 6, 2013
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Imagine a new world of innovative, inexpensive and successful learning, where dusty streets in rural towns in developing countries are lined with self-powered computer kiosks and children from poor neighborhoods have the same ability to work with new technology…
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- Amy Lieberman
- • November 14, 2012
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Latin America and the Caribbean have always faced the threat of hurricane intensely, but with new weather extremes related to climate change occurring amid growing urban populations, the lethal mix is bound to cause more damage and deaths…
- Categories: Climate Change
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