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The House Foreign Affairs Committee is voting today on a bill that would gut American financial contributions to the United Nations. Republicans who are championing this measure say it is a way…
Ed note. UN Dispatch’s own Una Moore has been in Afghanistan for the better part of two years. I asked her to share some of her thoughts on life and living in Kabul to mark the ten year…
Tomorrow, Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee will vote on a proposal that would slash American funding for United Nations. The proposed legislation would change how the United States…
More evidence that recent interventions in global health are working. From the World Health Organization:
WHO reports for the first time that the number of people falling ill with…
Micah Zenko, a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy and a fellow for conflict prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations criticized the NATO-led military campaign against…
The Afghan Women’s Writing Project was set up in 2008 at the initiative of the novelist, Masha Hamilton, who wanted to provide the inspiring Afghan women that she knew with a forum to share their stories. This arena, unbiased by the media or the influence of male relatives, allows these women to assert their voices, even if they often have to do so secretly and without the knowledge of their families.
To mark the launch of Channel 16’s multi-partner ‘Green Scarves for Solidarity’…
Throughout the Arab Spring, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has positioned himself as a champion of the demonstrators who toppled Arab leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.
But what…
Ed note. UN Dispatch’s own Una Moore has been in Afghanistan for the better part of two years. I asked her to share some of her thoughts on life and living in Kabul to mark the ten year…
Over 13 million people have experienced one of the most severe droughts in decades in the Horn of Africa. Linked to this, millions now lack enough to eat. To challenge the situation, ONE has launched the Hungry No More campaign, in which it calls on the world community to act. To find out more, watch their campaign video above, or visit their site and sign their petition.
On 24 September, Channel 16 reported that ONE is one of many organisations to endorse “A Charter to End Extreme Hunger“. This calls for:
Ed note. This is a special guest post from Tamara Kreinin, the Executive Director of Women and Population at the United Nations Foundation.
Not long ago I walked the onion fields of rural…
Helmand river is the longest in Afghanistan by the length of 1,150 km. the river rises from Hindu Kush and ends Hamun-i-Helmand in Sistan & Baluchistan province of Iran. One of the two…
The Congolese electoral commission has now put up a partial list of voters on its website here. For those of you with some free time, you can go through the tens of thousands of pages of voters who…
KABUL, Afghanistan - It’s been 10 years since the start of the American invasion that toppled the Taliban regime and ushered in the current era in Afghanistan’s history. But that’s not really…
