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Nauert: Another unqualified Trump appointee, another step backward in world affairs

January 3, 2019 Renee Shur Foreign Policy, International, Trump, United Nations Leave a comment

Sometime in early 2019 Heather Nauert, Donald Trump’s appointee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will go before the Senate for confirmation hearings.

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The other refugees we don’t hear as much about

February 14, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, International, Refugees 2 comments

Syrians—4.8 million of them–constitute the largest segment of the current world refugee population.  But there are many other refugees —16+ million — who are

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Trump applies his usual logic to the United Nations

April 5, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Foreign Policy, History, International, Politics, United Nations One comment

I can see why perhaps Donald Trump has little love for the United Nations. After all, since its inception in 1945 and his birth

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20 years after Rwanda, genocide remains a “problem from Hell”

March 16, 2016 Adam Levin International, United Nations, Violence Leave a comment

I just finished reading a book worth writing about in light of recent events in Africa and Iraq: Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire’s Shake Hands

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Infographic: Literacy around the world

September 8, 2014 Bobbi Clemons Education, Human Rights Leave a comment

For Literacy Day, the United Nations made an infographic looking at literacy statistics around the world. Education is listed again and again as one

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At long last, U.S. says it will sign the Land Mine Treaty

August 11, 2014 Renee Shur Foreign Policy, History, Military, Obama 2 comments

In 1918, shortly after the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson proposed the founding of an international organization dedicated to fostering cooperation

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Gender equality: Not just a female cause

March 14, 2014 Hafsa Gender issues, Women Leave a comment

International Women’s Day is  24 hours of celebration of what it means to be a woman and to promote gender equality. This year, on

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UN Treaty on Disability Rights: Obama says yes; so should Congress

December 17, 2013 Renee Shur Civil Rights, Congress, Government, History, Human Rights, International, Obama, United Nations Leave a comment

Perhaps you haven’t noticed. Our current president is an unwavering optimist. Whether we see Obama’s optimism as a character trait or a belief system

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Garbage Patch nation: UN declares plastic trash to be a “country”

April 22, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Environment, International One comment

Plastic trash takes up so much territory in Earth’s oceans that is has been designated a “country” by the United Nations. The new “country”

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NRA takes its “no-gun-restrictions-ever” argument to the United Nations

March 25, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Business, Congress, Crime/Violence, Guns, International, Politics, Public safety, War Leave a comment

Apparently, the National Rifle Association isn’t content merely to enforce its no-gun-restriction marketing strategy on Americans. [Notice that I’m not calling it an ideology.

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