Short Leash on Cyprus Peacekeeping Mandate
Some were hoping to incorporate a timeline and/or other coercive measures that might speed up the Cyprus negotiations, in particul…
Some were hoping to incorporate a timeline and/or other coercive measures that might speed up the Cyprus negotiations, in particul…
Over six months ago, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey and I published blog reports on Diplomatically Incorrect critical of the Ethiopia…
The Taliban have enforced a ban on polio vaccines in the tribal border area of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Helping save the health/l…
What else to call it but "dickhead" policy! Human Rights Watch reports that NYC police are arresting women who have 3 or more cond…
July 18 is Nelson Mandela Day. Found a few of these pictures/events telling. In confronting Apartheid over a decades long struggle…
Poverty reduction and retaining an empowered youth workforce is the goal of a new programme of the United Nations: Alternatives to…
UNESCO added 20 new sites of biosphere reserves and extended several others last week. Biosphere Reserves were inscribed in Haiti,…
It is a violation of death penalty safeguards to impose capital punishment on individuals suffering from psychosocial disabilities…
The UN Secretary General first met with the Chinese people, so to speak, through the Chinese social media web-site Sina Weibo. He …
Rwanda and Uganda have been accused of supporting/instigating a renegade arm of Congos (DRC) military and former rebel group M23 i…