What You Need to Know About Air Pollution Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg May 23, 2019Air pollution results in the premature death of 7 million people around the world each year. It is a major global killer harming people in nearly every corner of the globe.My guest today, Beth Gardiner is a...
Security Council Elections at the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg May 21, 2019It is election season at the United Nations. On June 7 the General Assembly will pick new members to join the Security Council. The results of some (but not all!) of these elections are foreordained -- and the...
Legislation in Canada Could Change How the World Deals With Frozen Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Mark Leon Goldberg May 20, 2019Several countries have laws on the books that enables governments to freeze the assets of corrupt foreign officials. Canada is one of those countries, and now one Canadian Senator is trying to take that law one...
The War in Syria Is Taking its Next Big Turn Mark Leon Goldberg May 15, 2019Syrian regime forces, backed by Russia, have scaled up their attacks in what is the last part of Syria controlled by rebel forces.Over the last several weeks an estimated 140,000 people have been displaced ...
With Democrats Now in Charge, UN Budget Gets a Big Boost in the U.S. House of Representatives Mark Leon Goldberg May 13, 2019Elections have consequences. Last November, Democrats won majority of the United States House of Representatives which is the budget making body of Congress. Late last week, the key sub-committee that writes th...
How to Eliminate the Global Problem of Online Child Abuse Mark Leon Goldberg May 13, 2019The spread of child sexual abuse material on the internet has grown at an exponential pace in the last fifteen years, since the advent of social media. This is truly a global problem, affecting every country o...
The Crisis in Cameroon is Getting Worse Mark Leon Goldberg May 8, 2019There is an escalating humanitarian crisis in Cameroon where more than half a million people have been displaced by conflict.This conflict erupted in earnest in late 2017 and early 2018 in a series of attac...
UN Warns of Fate of Ethiopian Migrants Imprisoned in Yemen Mark Leon Goldberg May 7, 2019One of the absurd tragedies of the Yemen conflict has been the plight of the thousands of migrants who have traveled to Yemen, despite the ongoing conflict. Driven by the promise of finding gainful employment e...
The Personality Trait That Every Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner Has in Common Mark Leon Goldberg May 6, 2019My guest today Supriya Vani interviewed every living female Nobel Peace Prize winner. She crossed the globe interviewing female nobel Laureates to learn what compelled them to action and lead such distinguished...
