Wynton Marsalis Awarded French Legion of Honor in NYC
Wynton Marsalis received France’s highest distinction last week in New York – the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor t...
Wynton Marsalis received France’s highest distinction last week in New York – the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor t...
Posted 10.01.2009 | Green
Kofi Annan teams up with Duran Duran and other musicians to call for action against climate change with this video. The track acts as a petition and i...
Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.22.2009 | Entertainment
The film is essentially the same rant against stupid behavior we've heard for years, dressed up in an elaborate, well-intended package.
Julia Moulden | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
"Your eyes, it's a day's work to look into them." American composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson wrote the line that came to me when I first...
Lloyd Axworthy | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
This week, a principle adopted by world leaders four years ago to prevent mass atrocity will face a crucial test.
WSJ | JOE LAURIA and STEVE STECKLOW | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
As the Obama administration implements a new U.S. strategy toward the United Nations, it's working with a U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, who is ...
Maria Burnett | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
Several members of congress support a bill that would oblige the White House to develop a detailed strategy to protect civilians from the brutal Lord's Resistance Army in east and central Africa.
UPI | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
Kenya has agreed to a July 2010 deadline to set up a tribunal to try those responsible for inciting violence that killed 1,500 people in 2007, officia...
Jim Luce | Posted 07.28.2009 | World
With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.
Kofi Annan | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
Africa is enormously rich in potential. If we have the courage to rise to the challenge, it will benefit 900 million people and create a valuable growth platform for the global economy.
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
A Marshall Plan for Africa would fight and stop the expansion of heartless capitalism in Subsaharan Africa and increase agricultural output beyond pre-independence levels.
Frankie Martin | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
Kenya must tackle the roots of its election chaos. These include poverty, tribalism, and the failure of the country to live up to the vision of its first president, Jomo Kenyatta.
Steven G. Brant | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business
Capitalism as currently designed must be replaced, not "fixed"... not "rebooted." Our world's leaders must implement a new economic system appropriate to this totally new world.
Kofi Annan | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
At Davos, our business and political leaders must show they understand that our world has shifted for good and that we have to change with it or perish.
Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
In Zimbabwe, the lack of medicine, equipment, services, and staff in public hospitals is resulting in preventable deaths. There is no access to care for those who cannot afford private clinics.
Jim Wallis | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
As American and Indian intelligence continue to point to the Pakistani militant organization as responsible for last weeks attacks in Mumbai, I hope they've read a new report from the National Intelligence Council.
Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 01.03.2009 | World
A complete collapse of Zimbabwe's health system and sanitation infrastructure has given way to a major cholera epidemic spreading throughout the country. Raw sewage is running in the streets, and medicine is unavailable.
Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
This weekend, a group including... Kofi Annan and former U.S. President Carter had to cancel a humanitarian assessment visit to Zimbabwe when the Mugabe government refused them visas.
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
In addition to the AIDS epidemic, the mass starvation and increase of rape and abuse, Cholera has reared its head. Still, nothing is done by the rest of the world.
AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Zimbabwe has refused to let Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and a South African human rights advocate visit the impoverish...
AP | TOM MALITI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's president and the opposition leader signed a power-sharing deal Thursday to bring the country back from the depths of v...
ABC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Former President Bill Clinton, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mi...
Jim Luce | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York