Better Know Kelly Craft, Donald Trump’s Pick as US Ambassador to the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg June 24, 2019Donald Trump's pick to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations is unlike any other previous nominee for the US-UN role. Kelly Knight Craft currently serves as the US Ambassador to Canada, a ...
New Poll Shows U.S. Support for the United Nations at a 10 Year High Mark Leon Goldberg June 20, 2019For the past ten years, a bi-partisan team of pollsters have collected data on American attitudes towards the United Nations. Now, according to the latest survey released this week the UN's favorability rating...
How the World is Responding to the Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mark Leon Goldberg June 20, 2019According to the latest estimates from the World Health Organization, an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed over 1400 people. This makes it the second worst ebola outbreak in histo...
The Hong Kong Protests Mark Leon Goldberg June 16, 2019The protests in Hong Kong represent a key turning point for China, Hong Kong, and the world.Hong Kong is in the midst of the most significant protest movement since China assumed sovereignty in 1997. These...
The Sudan Crisis Has Reached A Key Infection Point Mark Leon Goldberg June 13, 2019Sudan is at a crossroads. In April, popular protests in Khartoum lead to the ouster of the country's longtime ruler, Omar al Bashir. He was toppled in a coup by military leaders. But the peaceful protests did ...
The Second Worst Ebola Outbreak in World History Has Spread Internationally Mark Leon Goldberg June 12, 2019The death of a child in Uganda from Ebola he contracted over the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo marks a major turning point in this outbreak.The ongoing outbreak in the DRC is the second-wor...
Can The UN Change How The World Thinks About Digital Cooperation? Mark Leon Goldberg June 11, 2019Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals requires a fundamental re-thinking of how the world approaches digital cooperation and digital inclusiveness.This is the key takeaway from the first-ever UN report ...
The Persecution of Christians in Iraq Mark Leon Goldberg June 10, 2019In 2003, before the US invasion of Iraq, there were an estimated 1.2 million Christians living there. Today, that number is less than 250,000 -- an eighty percent drop in less than two decades.If this trend...
What You Need to Know About Internally Displaced People Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg June 6, 2019Over 41 million people were internally displaced last year due to conflict and violence, according to a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center. This is a record high and excludes an additio...
