This week, I talk with Kristele Younis of Refugee's International about one of the most under reported stories out of Iraq: the plight of the some 2 million people who have fled Iraq since the outbreak of war in 2003. In the segment below, we talk about the particularly dire situation facing about 3,000 Iraqi Palestinians who have fled to refugee camps in Syria.
In this week's UN Plaza, I speak with Oisin Walton of Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF).
UPDATE: In recent weeks, TSF has deployed to Haiti after four successive cyclones devastated the island nation, and to Honduras, where more than 200,000 have been affected by heavy flooding. TSF's emergency communications for disaster relief work is supported by the UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership.
Two weeks ago, the General Assembly voted to refer the status of Kosovo's sovereignty to the International Court of Justice. In the UN Plaza segment below, Matthew Lee and I discuss this development, what it means for the United Nations, and it's significance to Serbian national politics.
Much of the rest of the diavalog is devoted to the recent Security Council elections. Check it out!
In this edition of UN Plaza, Daryl Kimball of the Arms Control Association and I discuss the troubled state of the global non-proliferation regime. These efforts were made more difficult, according to Kimball, by the recent nuclear technology deal between the United States and India. We discuss.
In this week's UN Plaza, Matthew Lee and I discuss a range of issues before the United Nations. In the clip below, we stray from Somali piracy to the dispute over the an oil rich region of Sudan to violence in Kashmir.
In this week's edition of UN Plaza, I interview Ambassador James Dobbins, who after September 11 was tasked to be the American envoy to the Afghan resistance. We discuss his new book, After the Taliban: Nation Building in Afghanistan
Matthew Lee and I discuss Sarah Palin's forthcoming visit to the United Nations.
The United States foreign aid apparatus has not undergone a significant overhaul since the John F. Kennedy administration. In this edition of UN Plaza, I chat with Ray Offenheiser of Oxfam America about how we can bring US foreign assistance and foreign aid practices into the 21st century.
And don't miss Offenheiser's On Day One idea.
Matthew Lee and I cover a number of issues in our recent diavlog. In the segment below, we gab about the forthcoming UN Security Council elections.