New Year's resolutions hold little fascination maybe because they usually end on New Year's Eve, but last night under the electric blue moon it occurr...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 12.30.2009 | World
Arab countries are making strides in trying to improve journalism curricula, but still face strictures, obstacles and challenges to press freedom as w...
Patrick Galey | Posted 12.30.2009 | World
One of the few serviceable democracies in the Middle East, Lebanon's government is elected along confessional lines. The President is always a Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni, and the Parliament Speaker a Shiite.
Christian Science Monitor | Liam Stack | Posted 12.29.2009 | World
Getting in to the Gaza Strip is no easy feat, but driving across Egypt should not be this hard. On Sunday, more than 1,000 international activists ...
Gordon Brown | Posted 12.23.2009 | World
As the balance of economic power changes over the next two decades, new and stronger power-brokers may be less willing to embrace change. We must avoid this race to the bottom. Here is how.
Sphere News | Posted 12.21.2009 | World
On Thursday, the New York Times ran what it represented as a scoop: that I had plotted to oust Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in September. In fac...
Ellen Snortland | Posted 12.22.2009 | Green
Being an official Party in the COP15 meetings, I sat bewildered as all the agreements we were working on got sidelined by a document that a small group of 30 nations, led by the US president, inserted into the agenda.
New York Times | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green
COPENHAGEN -- Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other natu...
Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 12.14.2009 | World
Kai Eide, the top U.N. official in Afghanistan, was forcibly removed and did not resign voluntarily as he claims, according to his former deputy and "...
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 12.12.2009 | World
KABUL — The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said Friday he will step down early next year after a rocky two-year tenure marked by a fraud-marre...
Ellen Snortland | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green
Part of being a first timer at the UN COP15 Climate Change conference is learning the ropes. Bill Liao is doing just that, and checks in with a report on all he's learned from Copenhagen.
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green
It dawned with the warmest winter on record in the United States. And when the sun sets this New Year's Eve, the decade of the 2000s will end as the w...
AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green
COPENHAGEN — Delegates converged Sunday for the grand finale of two years of tough, sometimes bitter negotiations on a climate change treaty, as...
Posted 12.01.2009 | World
A United Nations-produced video shows the very real consequences of climate change for those living in Jakarta, Indonesia. The video shows how a city...
AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
GENEVA — The United Nations called Switzerland's ban on new minarets "clearly discriminatory" and deeply divisive, and the Swiss foreign ministe...
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and JASON KEYSER | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's announcement of plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment facilities is largely bluster after a strong rebuke from the U.N...
New Yorker | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
This past September, when nearly all the world's leaders were in New York for a meeting of the United Nations, Platon, a staff photographer for this m...
AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
VIENNA — In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three...
Nahal Zamani | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Friday, November 20, marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most comprehensive treaty on children's rights.
Bruce Lesley | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely recognized of any international agreement in existence. Sadly, the US is one of just two nations that haven't ratified it, joining only Somalia.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.
AP | KATHY GANNON and ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
KABUL — For his critics, President Hamid Karzai's inaugural speech Thursday struck all the right notes – sober pledges to get tough on cor...
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will not ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country for processing, its foreign minister said Wednesday, once again re...
Anushay Hossain | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
It's the world's poor who will feel the impact of this change the hardest. And who exactly are the poor? Women, who make up approximately 65% of the world's poorest populations.
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
Have trouble understanding modern art? Impact sought out some special exhibits that seek to make a change in the world, be it through raising awarenes...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics