United Nations Environment Executive Director Erik Solheim discusses connections between environmental management and peace and security.
Author: Jimena Leiva Roesch
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As a result of entrenched corruption, on top of weak tax bases, Guatemala has not been able to develop its social services.
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Migration and asylum claims are often discussed behind closed doors and related policies are considered strictly internal issues.
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Guatemala Attorney General Thelma Aldana discusses the political transition in Guatemala following last year’s uncovering of a vast criminal network, which extended to the president and vice president.
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Economic arguments against the necessary carbon-free revolution make increasingly less sense when politics are taken out of the equation.
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Zia Mian, Director of Princeton University’s Project on Peace and Security in South Asia, discusses
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Ambassador David Donoghue, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations, discusses implementation of the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals.
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Thomas Gass, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, discusses the new “social contract” forged by the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Strong statements about poverty, climate change, and overconsumption as existential threats are emitting from both the United Nations and the Vatican as Pope Francis descends on the world body to speak ahead of the sustainable development high-level summit where the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be officially signed by all member states.The three-year process of […]
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How can you have development without peace, when in many countries, “people are worried about the safety of their life and limb, of their property,” asks Nikhil Seth, former head of the Secretariat for the intergovernmental negotiations that created the United Nations’ goals for achieving sustainable development around the world.