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A failure to lead at the U.N.
It is the world’s most important organization, yet remains one of the most dysfunctional. This week a former United Nations employee described a pervasive culture of impunity inside the organization –...
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For Russia, Syria is not in the Middle East
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with (clockwise, starting in top left.) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, British Prime Minister David Cameron, next Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
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First chapter for ending extreme poverty
Children queue for free porridge at a local government feeding program in Tondo, Manila, Oct. 29, 2011. REUTERS/Erik De Castro President Barack Obama believes it. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of...
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For U.S.-Iran, it’s all in the timing
Four years after President Barack Obama famously extended his hand of friendship to Iran, Tehran finally seems willing to unclench its fist. The most decisive geopolitical handshake of this decade may...
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How ambitious the world?
For more than a decade, the very idea of multilateralism often seemed to be on life support — damaged by the Iraq invasion and its messy aftermath, buffeted by the global economic crisis and bruised...
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IAEA and Iran: Resolving the nuclear impasse
President Hassan Rouhani generated a positive buzz yesterday with his United Nations General Assembly statements about Iran’s determination to resolve the nuclear impasse with the international...
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The key stumbling blocks U.S. and Iran face
A historic phone call Friday between the presidents of the United States and Iran could mark the end of 34 years of enmity. Or it could be another missed opportunity. In the weeks ahead, clear signs...
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--By Justin Forsyth, CEO of Save the Children. The opinions expressed are his own.-- The pictures of Syrian children lined up dead and others writhing in agony, foaming at the mouth as they struggled...
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Helping the victims of American sex trafficking
Friday marks the International Day of the Girl. The United Nations has set aside October 11 to focus on the discrimination and abuse that women and girls suffer throughout the world. One brutal crime...
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Why the U.S. must lead on Disabilities Treaty
In an HIV clinic in Africa, a man born deaf holds a single sheet of paper with a plus sign. He looks for help, but no one at the clinic speaks sign language. In fact, the staff doesn’t seem interested...
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A new look at climate change
The annual United Nations climate change talks, which concluded last month in Warsaw, unfortunately found little common ground on carbon. The talks broke down over the world’s richest nations’...
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Human Rights Day: Still pursuing religious freedom
December 10 marks Human Rights Day, the 65th anniversary of the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), signed by 48 nations — with just eight abstentions. Sixty-five years ago,...
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Honor Mandela by stopping a genocide
As South Africans cheered President Barack Obama’s speech at the funeral of Nelson Mandela on Tuesday, a nation of 4.6 million people 2,500 miles north was being torn apart by religious hatred. Muslim...
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Seize this crisis to push South Sudan reform
Three years ago this week, outside a makeshift polling station in Bentiu, South Sudan, I interviewed Riek Machar, vice president of the then semi-autonomous region. Machar had just cast his vote for...
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IAEA conduct complicates Iran nuclear deal
The world powers in November reached an interim deal with Iran to freeze and even roll back a portion of its nuclear program in exchange for some sanctions relief. The arrangement went into effect on...
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Are we at war? And why can’t we be sure anymore?
By John Lloyd The question -- “Are we at war?” -- seems absurd. Surely, we would know it if we were. But maybe we’re in a new era -- and wars are creeping up on us. In the decade after the collapse of...
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Humans don’t do ‘future’ well, and that could doom us if we’re not careful
By Richard Schiffman There has been some rare good news about the environment recently. One was hard to miss. On Sunday, roughly 300,000 people swelled the streets of midtown Manhattan in the People’s...
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Is there a new crack in the West’s sanctions regime against Russia?
By William E. Pomeranz President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations Wednesday offered to roll back the U.S. sanctions if Russia takes the “path of diplomacy and peace.” This overture comes on...
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Should the West withdraw from the world to win its love?
By John Lloyd In his original and argumentative history of the Anglo-American domination of the past three or more centuries, Walter Russell Mead writes that both the UK and the United States believed...
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Is the U.S. really against torture? It can be hard to tell
By Elisa Massimino President Barack Obama brought the U.S. commitment against torture into sharper focus on Wednesday. For a president who prohibited torture as one of his first official acts, this...
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