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December 21, 2009
Fundamental new global realities have been obscured by the frenzy to declare winners and losers.
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November 17, 2009
"Mainstreaming" a focus on women into all of the United Nations' work never happened. So will an agency for women ever get off the ground?
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November 3, 2009
Is the campaign to fight female genital mutilation meeting new resistance not only in traditional societies but among Western anthropologists?
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October 26, 2009
Navi Pillay is the first UN human rights commissioner to take on caste discrimination.
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October 2, 2009
Barely a week after Barack Obama plunged into the UN for three unprecedented days, our reconciliation with the organization is already showing fault lines.
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September 25, 2009
At the UN this week, Barack Obama told the world to stop complaining about US hegemony and start working with Washington on big global problems. He should take his own advice.
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September 22, 2009
This week's UN General Assembly session will be memorable not so much for what is said by the lineup of world leaders as for the sustained involvement of one of them: Barack Obama.
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September 21, 2009
In a surprise victory, Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova becomes the first female and first Eastern European head of Unesco.
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September 14, 2009
More and more experts now say that climate change and population increase should be viewed together. Local politicians in developing countries often try to heat up the issue.
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September 1, 2009
With the change in Pepfar guidelines, the Obama administration opens new opportunities to link AIDS work and family planning and strengthen health systems in developing countries.
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August 24, 2009
Abdullah Abdullah exemplifies a political chameleon in a country tortured by wars and violence.
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August 7, 2009
Despite vast advances in India's economy, human rights in one of the world's largest democracies remain a major issue. From abuses by police to political violence, India has a long way to go toward protecting the basic rights of its citizens.
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July 21, 2009
On her first trip to India, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got some promises and some pushback on climate change and nuclear weapons.
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June 26, 2009
Rafael Correa came to the United Nations this week armed with the usual anti-US rhetoric--but also with a plan for Latin American economic empowerment.
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June 23, 2009
Neda Agha-Soltan has become a powerful and tragic icon of the new Iran--and an emblem of just how much women have lost in the thirty years of Islamic rule.
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June 17, 2009
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is halfway through his first term. Whether he gets a second term depends on his ability to get results.
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May 17, 2009
Defying expectations and boosting hopes for stability, Indian voters rejected extremism and caste divisions, to give a decisive victory to Congress Party moderates.
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May 5, 2009
Just as tourism returns to the nascent Himalayan democracy, new political discord could derail economic recovery and a constitution.
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April 20, 2009
By choosing to boycott the UN conference on racism, the United States has increased the clout of Iran's Ahmadinejad and undermined global efforts to defeat intolerance.
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April 14, 2009
As mob violence and political strife destroy Thailand's reputation as Southeast Asia's magic kingdom, the fortunes of Vietnam and Indonesia are rising.
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April 7, 2009
A UN investigation of Israel's attacks on Gaza may put the US in the middle of a tense dispute between the international body and Israel.
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March 31, 2009
In a forthcoming memoir, John Gunther Dean writes about not only pressure from pro-Israeli officials in Washington but attempts on his life for reaching out to the Palestinians.
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March 15, 2009
Pakistan's Chief Justice is restored after protests rock Lahore, but questions remain about the stability of President Asif Ali Zardari--and new challenges for the Obama administration.
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March 9, 2009
In an interview with The Nation, a veteran UN envoy assesses the Obama administration's evolving policies on Afghanistan and the role President Hamid Karzai might play.
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February 23, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire captivated global audiences, but in India, it strikes a different nerve--as a tale of personal recompense and revenge by a young Muslim victim of Hindu persecution.
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February 9, 2009
Bipartisanship promises to be even harder to achieve on human rights than it is on a stimulus package. Two pending decisions at the United Nations will reveal the depth of the administration's commitment.
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January 25, 2009
With little fanfare, Obama has reversed one of the most damaging GOP policies ever visited on developing nations, which deprived millions of women of family planning services.
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January 16, 2009
In the end, it wasn't shoddy products or high wages that put the US auto industry on the ropes. It was a failure to innovate for global markets.
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January 12, 2009
As the season of Tet begins, questions of human rights, widespread corruption and a new novel highly critical of Ho Chi Minh, are giving Vietnamese much cause for reflection.
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January 6, 2009
Decades of civil war have all but destroyed once-progressive Sri Lanka. Now that the army is closing in on Tamil rebels, what chance is there for real peace now?
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