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Opinion pieces reflect the views of their authors, not necessarily Citizens for Global Solutions.
The Pregnancy Debate in Sierra Leone
While the debate about parental leave rages on within the US, Amnesty International released an upsetting report last week that revealed blatant...
Global CooperationMoving Toward a World Parliamentary Assembly
The United Nations is an organization of states, not of persons—even though that’s what the UN Charter promises. The UN is far...
Human RightsYemen: Where Humanity Is Flouted
At the United Nations headquarters in Geneva On October 31, 2015, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President of the International Committee of the...
Human RightsKashmir: The Oldest Unresolved Conflict in the World
This week, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee meeting dealing with social, humanitarian and cultural questions was held. Here, Pakistan and India...
Global JusticeA Radical Win-Win Solution for Syria
The perspectives of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S President Barack Obama on Syria are so different that you have to wonder...
The Global Cost of Gender-Based Violence
When you think of gender-based violence, you may think of women abused in a refugee camp or conflict zone; you may think...
Climate JusticeThe Right to Change
Last week, the Mexican west coast was hit by “the biggest storm ever recorded in the western hemisphere,” Hurricane Patricia. While Mexico’s...
Human RightsHate in Burma Slows but Does Not Stop Democratization
I have written that Burma is still suffering from ethnic and religiously motivated violence, even as it seeks to strengthen its democratic...
Human RightsWoman as Peacemakers
Seeing with eyes that are gender aware, women tend to make connections between the oppression that is the ostensible cause of conflict...
Global CooperationWater, Sunlight, Oil, and Sectarianism
In a prior post in the International Affairs Forum, I tried to outline what Western and Eastern polities might want out of...
Human RightsCGS Partners
It’s not uncommon to hear issue advocates claim that different organizations are “siloed”—focused on their approach to the issues that concern their...