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Global JusticeElements of a Cosmopolitan Foreign Policy
Watching President Barack Obama deliver his commencement address at the US Military Academy, it's easy to be reminded that he has discussed...
Global JusticeILO: “The Case for Social Security Protection is Compelling in Our Times”
Only 27 percent of the world’s population had access to a comprehensive social security system in 2012. This is according to the...
Global JusticeThe New UN Peacekeeping Mandate in South Sudan: What Does it All Mean?
The United Nations is now warning of a potential famine in South Sudan. Though South Sudan had agreed to ceasefires in January...
Global JusticeHow to Invest Your Life in Saving Humanity
In the Czech Republic lives a 17-year-old civic-minded student named Vojtěch. His teacher Doug describes him as a prodigy and “by far...
Global JusticeThe Gender Pay Gap: How We Can Escape the Double-Standard
At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this year, President Obama really showed what he was made of. With jokes on everything from...
Global JusticePutin’s Political Moves
Over the past two weeks, the international community has seen the situation in Ukraine move from bad to worse as it devolves...
Global JusticeConflict is Not the Way Forward
The Washington Post recently published an article entitled “In the long run, wars make us safer and richer” by Ian Morris. In...
Global JusticePolio’s Resurgence and the Globalization of Disease
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a global health emergency stating that polio is rapidly re-emerging as a threat –...
Global JusticeStop the War on International Law
“The children were all asleep in bed and I was just going off to sleep…when I heard people outside saying chemical bombs...
Global JusticeOne Year Since Bangladesh Building Collapse
April 24th marked the one-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This devastating collapse killed more than 1,100...
Global JusticeThe Weaponization of Hunger in Syria
On Friday reports surfaced that U.N. documents obtained by Foreign Policy show that the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has been...