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Today the United Nations officially launched UN Women, an agency designed to help promote gender equality across the globe.  The new branch has been highly publicized and long awaited, thus there was much excitement as it finally became a reality earlier today. UN Women was unanimously voted on by the 192-member General Assembly following years […]

News of Iran’s intensified global search for uranium supplies has hit the wires, underscoring the need for the IAEA to get its nuclear fuel bank up and running.  The Agency received the final green light it needed when its Board of Governors approved a proposal by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) to establish a bank […]

This is my maiden post for the Foreign Policy Association, so I thought I’d briefly introduce myself and share some thoughts about what I hope to accomplish with my blog posts for FPA. I have served in various capacities in and around the Washington, D.C. policy community over the last twenty years or so, where […]

These fellas took home first prize in the 1 minute to save the world film competition. Kudos to GOOD, where I picked this up.

Egypt: Rise to Freedom is a video and music tribute to the people of Egypt by Basha Beats and Natacha Atlas Via Six Degrees Records blog, Globalnoize

by Cordelia Rizzo In 2010, more than 465 women were murdered in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, most of them after being raped and severely tortured. They were the latest victims of the nearly 18 years of systematic killings of women in the city, which have claimed more than 1,052 lives. In the past two months, two […]

Gender-based violence can be directed against young girls and females from all cultures and socioeconomic classes—although the poor and dispossessed are more readily targeted. Women and young female children are targeted because they are the most vulnerable and powerless generally—especially in underdeveloped and conflict-ridden countries. In desperate situations of survival, female child soldiers may be […]

The 50th anniversary celebration of the Peace Corps will be marked with activities throughout 2011, but the organization has chosen food security as a signature issue around which many local anniversary activities should be organized. The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is helping members of the Peace Corps community to organize Global House Parties on […]

There’s been a story brewing for a couple weeks about a lawsuit against Jimmy Carter and Simon & Schuster, who published Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.  The plaintiffs in this $5 million lawsuit claim that the book should not be classified as non-fiction because they dispute some of the Carter’s assertions.  As Kevin Jon […]

A recent report by Ethiopia and the United Nations said that “2.8 million Ethiopians will need emergency food aid in 2011, and appealed for $227 million to fund programmes for the first six months.” UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ethiopia Eugene Owusu said the 2.8-million figure tells only part of the story, according to Voice of […]

In Africa, it estimated that half the ranks of progovernment paramilitaries and rebel soldiers are recruited, or abducted, child soldiers, of which approximately half of which are girls, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (IRC), at the Second International Policy Conference on the African Child: Violence Against Girls in Africa (2006).   In […]

Maersk orders largest, most efficient ships ever is the title of the release from one of the world’s biggest marine shipping concerns.  Given that 90% of the world’s international trade travels by ship, the importance of how we build, power, and even dispose of these critical components of commerce is enormous.  These new ships are […]