Why Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Won the Nobel Peace Prize Mark Leon Goldberg October 11, 2019Ethiopia's young Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. In conferring the honor, the Nobel Prize Committee said the Ethiopian leader was awarded the prize "for his efforts to...
Antonio Guterres Warns Thousands of Employees that the UN is Running Out of Money Mark Leon Goldberg October 8, 2019In a highly unusual letter sent to thousands of UN staffers, Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned of an impending budget shortfall facing the United Nations."To date, Member States have paid only 70 pe...
How Climate Change is Fueling the Rise of Right Wing Nationalism Mark Leon Goldberg October 2, 2019This article by Joshua Conrad Jackson of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland is republished from The ConversationTwo trends have defined the past decade ...
“Our enemy right now is physics.” Greta Thunberg Responds to the Latest IPCC Report on Sea Level Rise and Ocean Health Mark Leon Goldberg September 26, 2019The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest scientific report, this time focusing on the intersection of climate change and the world's oceans.The New York Times offers a useful rundow...
Donald Trump’s Very Backwards-Looking United Nations Speech Mark Leon Goldberg September 24, 2019In previous speeches to the United Nations General Assembly, Donald Trump has used the rostrum to backtrack from historic American commitments to human rights and collective security in favor of a worldview tha...
A Transnational Movement of Young Climate Activists are Becoming a Political Force at the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg September 22, 2019At the United Nations, small island states are often the countries that demand the most ambitious outcomes from climate negotiations. These are low lying countries that are most vulnerable to climate change, so...
New Research Shows Why The World Needs Global Cooperation to Preserve National Fish Stocks Mark Leon Goldberg September 20, 2019Ed note. This story originally appeared in The Conversation. It is republished here as part of UN Dispatch’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to stren...
“Don’t Bring a Speech. Bring a Plan!” Why The UN Climate Action Summit Matters Mark Leon Goldberg September 17, 2019This story originally appeared in the Nation. It is republished here as part of UN Dispatch's partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage ...
There’s a Scourge of Gender Based Violence in South Africa, and Women Are Fighting Back Mako Muzenda September 13, 2019When Uyinene Mrwetyana went missing on 24 August 2019, her family and friends started a nationwide campaign to find her and bring her home. They put up posters. They begged the South African Police Service (SAP...
