Why The Gambia is Suing Myanmar for The Rohingya Genocide Mark Leon Goldberg November 14, 2019The small west African country of the Gambia has lodged a suit at the International Court of Justice against Myanmar for committing a genocide against the Rohingya people.The Rohingya are an ethnic and reli...
Can the Paris Agreement Succeed Without the United States? Mark Leon Goldberg November 12, 2019Ed note. On Nov. 4, the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that it planned to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change, which 196 countries adopted in 2015. The pact ...
Iraq Protests: A Reporter in Baghdad Explains Why Thousands of Iraqis are Protesting the Government Mark Leon Goldberg November 11, 2019For the past several weeks, Washington Post reporter Mustafa Salim has had a front row view to massive protests that have erupted in Baghdad and other cities in Iraq. As he explains in this Global Dispatches po...
UNFPA Director Dr. Natalia Kanem Explains What You Need to Know About The Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 Mark Leon Goldberg November 7, 2019Twenty five years ago the city of Cairo, Egypt hosted a UN-backed gathering of international development professionals from nearly every country on the earth. That 1994 meeting was called the International Conf...
Peter Piot: How Prepared are We for the Next Big Global Epidemic? Mark Leon Goldberg November 4, 2019In 1976 Peter Piot was a 27-year-old microbiologist working in Belgium when he travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, then called Zaire, to investigate a particularly deadly disease outbreak. He took sa...
How a Rivalry Between Arab Governments on the Arabian Peninsula is Shaping International Relations Mark Leon Goldberg October 31, 2019One of the driving forces of international relations over the last several years has been a rivalry between Arab states. This is sometimes called the "Gulf Crisis" and put simply, it refers to tensions and host...
“Hunger Has No Religion.” How Lebanese Protesters Transcended Sectarianism and Forced the Prime Minister to Resign Mark Leon Goldberg October 29, 2019Ed note. This post from Mira Assaf Kafantaris, of The Ohio State University originally appeared in The Conversation. Religion has shaped Lebanon since it gained independence from France in 1943. In this mu...
How The Top LGBTI Rights Watchdog at the United Nations Defends Human Rights Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg October 28, 2019Victor Madrigal-Borloz is a Costa Rican jurist who serves as the United Nations Independent Expert on Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In other wor...
Massive Protests are Leading to a Political Crisis in Chile Mark Leon Goldberg October 24, 2019What began last week as a protest against a fare hike in for the Santiago, Chile metro system has morphed into a broad social movement against increasing economic inequality in the country. And it has been viol...
