20 Years Ago Today, Ted Turner Announced his $1 Billion Gift to the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg September 18, 2017 On September 18, 1997 Ted Turner stunned an audience gathered at a United Nations Association gala dinner. He was there to accept UNA's "Global Leadership Award" for his advocacy worldwide. Without prior notic...
Bangladesh Wants to Deport Rohingya to a Remote and Uninhabitable Island Joanne Lu September 12, 2017 Bangladesh is forging ahead with a controversial plan to settle hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar on an isolated, undeveloped, flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal. According to...
Episode 164: Ambassador John Shattuck Mark Leon Goldberg September 11, 2017 John Shattuck is the former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic, former President of the Central European University, and served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy Human Rights and Labor Duri...
PODCAST: Helene Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Refugee From Liberia Mark Leon Goldberg September 5, 2017 Helene Cooper is the Pentagon correspondent for the New York Times. She is also the author of the new book Madame President: The extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf which is a biography of the Li...
Video: This is what the Journey of 123,000 Fleeing Rohingya Refugees Looks Like Mark Leon Goldberg September 5, 2017 The Rohingya are a long discriminated against minority community that live primarily in Myanmar. They are religiously Muslim and an ethnic minority that has faced marginalization by the government and populati...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is Just Doing His Job Mark Leon Goldberg August 30, 2017 Prince Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. As such, it is his job to call out human rights abuses and threats to human rights around the world. Just today, his office...
Poland is in the Midst of a Democratic Backslide Mark Leon Goldberg August 22, 2017 Poland is in the midst of a democratic backslide. The country's politics are dominated by the far right Law and Justice Party, which has embarked on a series of moves to curb the independence of the judicia...
Map of the Day: Where People Have Been Forced to Flee From Their Homes in 2017 Mark Leon Goldberg August 17, 2017 Today's map comes from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, which tracks internal displacement around the world. People become "internally displaced" when they are forced to flee their homes because of ...
More people have died because Yemen’s main airport is closed than from the conflict directly Mark Leon Goldberg August 10, 2017 It has been one year since the Saudi-led international coalition stopped all commercial traffic in and out of Sanaa International Airport. The results have been deadly -- perhaps even deadlier than the conflict...
