Palestine Assumes Leadership of the Powerful G77 Bloc at the United Nations. Here’s what that means Mark Leon Goldberg January 15, 2019The Group of 77, or G77, is the single largest voting bloc at the United Nations. And in 2019, it will be chaired for the first time by Palestine.Palestine has unique status at the United Nations. It is not...
Will Protests in Sudan Bring Down the Genocidal Regime of Omar al Bashir? Mark Leon Goldberg January 14, 2019A protest movement in Sudan is posing the biggest challenge to the genocidal regime of Omar al Bashir in decades. The protests began just before Christmas, ostensibly over an increase in the price of bread. Th...
Global Fund Replenishment Means Funding the Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Mark Leon Goldberg January 11, 2019The Global Fund needs to replenish its reserves in order to fill its mission of fighting the world's three top diseases.The Global Fund is essentially a collective pool of money that supports governments, N...
What’s Next for the World Bank After Jim Yong Kim’s Sudden Resignation? Mark Leon Goldberg January 10, 2019World Bank president Jim Yong Kim is stepping down at the end January. He made that announcement on January 7th, surprising most observers for the fact that he is resigning from his post with three years left i...
US Ceases Cooperation With UN Human Rights Special Rapporteurs Mark Leon Goldberg January 8, 2019The Trump administration has stopped cooperating with a key element of United Nations global human rights monitoring.Special Rapporteurs are independent experts tapped by the United Nations Office of the Hi...
The Migrant Route to Europe is Changing Mark Leon Goldberg January 7, 2019You would not know it from the headlines, but more irregular migrants and refugees are arriving to Europe via a route that takes them from Morocco to Spain than, are arriving to Italy via Libya or to Greece via...
A Growing Crisis Between China and Canada Has Big Global Implications Mark Leon Goldberg January 3, 2019On December 1st, a business executive named Meng Wangzhou was arrested while transferring through the Vancouver airport. Her arrest came at the request of US authorities, who are seeking her extradition to the ...
Yemen Received More Migrants in 2018 than Europe Mark Leon Goldberg January 2, 2019The International Organization for Migration says that nearly 150,000 migrants arrived in war torn Yemen in 2018.This is despite ongoing conflict, a cholera outbreak and near famine conditions in much of th...
A Ten Year Old War Crime is Sowing Instability in Sri Lanka Today Mark Leon Goldberg December 27, 2018One of the worst mass atrocities in recent times took place in Sri Lanka during the final days of that country's long civil war. In May 2009, tens of thousands of people were killed by Sri Lankan armed forces o...
