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Global CooperationSeventy-Year Solutions, Part 3
Over the next 70 years, our children and grandchildren will need to negotiate three major transitions in human civilization. Parts 1 and...
Human RightsA Time of Departure: Forces that Create Refugees and Migrants
Current refugee-migrant flows (from Burma and Bangladesh toward Thailand and Malaysia, and across the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East toward...
Global JusticeLet My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor
June 12 is a red-letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labor. It marks the...
Global CooperationKim Kardashian for President? UN Celebrity Ambassadors: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
Daniel Craig, most known for his ongoing movie role as James Bond, was recently appointed the first United Nations global advocate for...
Human RightsThe Difficult but Necessary Road to Yemen Negotiations
The continued aggression of Saudi Arabia against civilians in Yemen and the use of cluster munitions in violation of the UN Convention...
Climate JusticeSeventy-Year Solutions, Part 2
As I discussed in Part 1 of this blog series, Over the next 70 years, our children and grandchildren will need to...
Global JusticeSupply-Chain Slavery: What You May Not Know About the Products You Consume
Do you know where the coffee used in your Venti Iced Caramel Macchiato you drink religiously comes from? How about the chocolate...
Global CooperationNPT 2015: Nuclear Weapons and Tension Areas
As Winston Churchill once quipped, “God so loved the world that he did not send a committee.” The Drafting Committee of the...
Human RightsBurma’s Ethnic-Based Violence Must End for Democracy to Thrive
Democracy is a process of becoming, of trying to create the more perfect union, and this is definitely true for Burma (also...
Global JusticeCorporate Power and Labor Rights: Why We Have to Watch out for the TPP
On May 21, 2015, the urban streets of Chicago were engulfed in the cries of thousands, as workers, community supporters, and other...
Climate JusticeA Seventy-Year Solution: More Energy, Less Climate Change
This is the first of three planned blogs to focus on three crucial levers to a sustainable and ample life for our...