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Put Away your Passport
I consider myself a pretty culturally diverse person. I was raised as Serbian-American, and I remain highly involved in this community today....
June 26: Anniversary of the Signing of the UN Charter
June 26 is the anniversary date of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. While...
Omar Al-Bashir: Like a Thief in the Night
In what was almost a "Pinochet moment" in South Africa, the NGO Southern African Litigation Centre requested a South African court to...
Julian Huxley and the Intellectual Foundations of UNESCO
Visions of beauty for mankind to seeThe Present's place in the Eternal scheme,And point which way to turn Life's undeciding stream. —"Holyrood,"...
Global CooperationA Call for Just Security
This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post and is cross-posted with the author's permission. We are in danger of losing the...
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...