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Time for a Peace Budget

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

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...

Arab Countries Aim to Improve Journalism Education With UNESCO's "Model Curricula"

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 12.30.2009 | World


Magda Abu-Fadil

Arab countries are making strides in trying to improve journalism curricula, but still face strictures, obstacles and challenges to press freedom as w...

Lebanon: Where International Meddling Works, to a Point

Patrick Galey | Posted 12.30.2009 | World


Patrick Galey

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.

Egypt Cracks Down On Foreign Protesters Traveling To Gaza

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 ...

A Clear Agenda for Reform in 2010

Gordon Brown | Posted 12.23.2009 | World


Gordon Brown

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.

Peter Galbraith On The Record: Diplomat Explains Afghanistan Exit

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...

COP15 -- What Really Happened

Ellen Snortland | Posted 12.22.2009 | Green


Ellen Snortland

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.

Copenhagen Climate Talks Near Deal On Preservation Of Forests

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...

Galbraith Says Eide Was Fired

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 "...

Kai Eide: Top UN Official In Afghanistan Has Had Enough

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...

A Tree Grows in Copenhagen

Ellen Snortland | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green


Ellen Snortland

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.

Decade Of 2000s Was Warmest Ever, Scientists Say

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...

Copenhagen Climate Summit Begins

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...

Climate Change Puts Jakarta In Jeopardy (VIDEO)

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...

UN Slams Swiss Minaret Ban As "Anti-Foreigner Scare-Mongering"

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...

Iran: UN Criticism Prompted New Nuclear Plans

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...

Portraits Of World Leaders: New Yorker Photographer Platon Photographs 44 (PHOTOS)

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...

Iran Censured At UN Nuclear Meeting

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...

Expanding Opportunity And Hope For Children In America

Nahal Zamani | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics


Nahal Zamani

Friday, November 20, marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most comprehensive treaty on children's rights.

A Peaceful Revolution: U.S. Should Ratify the U.N.'s Convention on the Rights of the Child

Bruce Lesley | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living


Bruce Lesley

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.

Build, Don't Destroy in Afghanistan: An Open Letter to President Obama

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World


Jim Wallis

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.

Hamid Karzai Sworn In For Second 5-Year Term As Afghan President

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...

Iran Rejects UN-Proposed Nuclear Deal

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...

Climate Change Hits Women Harder, So Where Are the Feminist Voices?

Anushay Hossain | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green


Anushay Hossain

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.

SLIDESHOW: Art For A Better World: Five Exhibits That Inspire Change

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...