Kofi Annan could never really be satisfied with the world as it was. He was one of the world’s last great idealists Mark Leon Goldberg August 19, 2018My first meaningful interaction with Kofi Annan was a press conference at the United Nations in September 2005. It was the 60th anniversary of the United Nations and world leaders had just signed onto the most ...
PODCAST: How Dr. Vanessa Kerry Helps Strengthen Health Systems Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg August 16, 2018Dr. Vanessa Kerry is the Co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health. This is an international NGO that works in five sub-Saharan countries to bolster the education of medical professionals.This is a vital...
PODCAST: The Bombing of UN Headquarters in Iraq, 15 Years On Mark Leon Goldberg August 13, 2018On August 19th, 2003 the United Nations headquarters in Iraq at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, was hit with a truck bomb. At least 22 people lost their lives in this attack, including the UN's top official in ...
Map of the Day: Countries Where LGBTIQ Groups Are Banned Mark Leon Goldberg August 9, 2018Today's map comes from Outright International, a global LGBTIQ rights group. It shows countries where the legal registration of community groups that support LGBTIQ rights are curtailed by governments. ...
“Disrupting” UNRWA Means Disrupting School for 500,000 Palestinian Children Mark Leon Goldberg August 8, 2018The UN agency that provides humanitarian relief for Palestinian refugees is coming under assault from the Trump administration. Again. Late last week, Foreign Policy reported that the Trump administration was ...
Twenty Years Ago Today Two United States Embassies Were Bombed. A Survivor Tells His Story Mark Leon Goldberg August 7, 2018On August 7th, 1998 my guest today John Lange was the acting United States Ambassador to Tanzania when a truck bomb exploded outside the embassy in Dar es Salaam. He did not know it at the time, but this b...
PODCAST: The UN Released it’s First-Ever Report on the Regulation of Content on Twitter and Facebook Mark Leon Goldberg August 2, 2018The UN Special Rapporteur for the Freedom of Expression has a mandate to protect free speech around the world.Earlier this summer, the rapporteur, David Kaye, released the UN's first-ever report on the ...
This is the World’s First Fully Solar Powered Airport. (It Serves as Many People as Dulles Airport) Mark Leon Goldberg August 1, 2018The United Nations Environment is bestowing its highest annual honor on an airport in India for being the first airport in the world to function entirely on solar energy. UN Environment named Cochin Internation...
PODCAST: 977 Days as a Hostage of Somali Pirates Mark Leon Goldberg July 30, 2018Michael Scott Moore spent 977 days as a hostage of Somali pirates. He is a journalist and in 2012 he set out for the Somali coast on a reporting trip when he was kidnapped. What followed was a two and a hal...
