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World water crisis – Maude Barlow
Written by Steven Watson
UN Advisor on Water Maude Barlow on the world’s water crisis
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Civil Society Leadership: Towards A More Responsible World Order
Written by Delalorm
At the Millennium Summit convened by the United Nations from 6-8 September 2000, the then Secretary-General Kofi Annan presented a report that laid the foundations for the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals. Entitled ‘We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the Twenty-First Century’ , the report […]
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A Marriage Fraught with Heartache: Democracy and Climate Change
Written by Corina Murafa
“What we may be witnessing is […] the end of history as such: that is […] the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” Decades after its publication, Francis Fukuyama’s proclamation of the unabashed triumph of democracy still produces uproar among readers and commentators. In […]
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Civil Society Participation and UN Women
Written by Tom Fries
Globalsister.org presses for a role for civil society as advisors and actors in the functioning of UN Women. Read more
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How well-represented is the average person, or the average dollar?
Written by Tom Fries
Consider the three pie charts below, which show (1) the percentage of NGOs at the UN headquartered in OECD nations, G77 nations, or nations that are neither OECD nor G77 members against (2) the percentage of world population living in each group and (3) the percentage of world GDP (by […]
