UN Secretary-General António Guterres received an honorary degree from the New School university in New York City on Feb. 17. He spoke at length on “women and power,” blaming patriarchy for the ...

Just days before the COP26 environment summit in Glasgow, Scotland, three of the United Nations’ lead agencies on climate and development each published alarming reports. The World Meteorological ...

LEAVE A COMMENT The world order is no more. Since the beginning of this year, and with greater intensity since March, when the World Health Organization declared the spread of Covid-19 a pandemic, ...

Hayley Willingale is a human-rights expert based in London who specializes in women's rights. She has written for and edited a range of publications in recent years, covering international development ...

In February 2020, just weeks before New York City and much of the world went into lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we and our fellow ambassadors at the United Nations began six months of ...

WINNIPEG, Canada — Every new immigrant to Canada has to live through the three stages of acculturation, which for most people is not easy. First comes the thrill and joy of exploring a new land, then ...

Marcia V.J. Kran is an international lawyer from Canada; a former director at the UN human-rights office and currently a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2017 – 2024).

Mouna Ghanem is a democratic activist who has written about the Syrian civil war and peace process for such media as The Guardian and The Independent. She previously served on the Women's Advisory ...

Alicia Villanueva Chavez is a Peruvian feminist trained in fine arts and psychology, specializing in organizing and training rural and urban women to manage economic enterprises. She is also a ...

David L. Phillips is the director of the Program on Peace-Building and Rights at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He was a senior adviser for humanitarian advocacy ...

Vlad Lupan is an independent expert and former ambassador of Moldova to the UN.

Michael Curtin is a graduate student at the Seton Hall University School of Diplomacy and International Relations in South Orange, N.J. He is also editorial chair of the Northern New Jersey chapter of ...