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Nations Within Nations

A Forum for Dialogue through the United Nations What do you do when something is illegal but necessary? Who do you look to when your country is quite literally, being ripped in two? As the self-determination vote in Catalonia became […]

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Can the UN Prevent Cyber-Attacks?

Imagine you awake one morning to find that your internet is down in your apartment, “No problem,” you think. You switch to your cellular service on your phone. Your phone isn’t working either. You try to turn on your TV. […]

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IDPs: Invisible Citizens or blinded authorities?

UNSS, New York, July 2018 In support of the 20th anniversary of The Guiding principles on Internal Displacement, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched the campaign #InvisibleCitizens, to humanize and draw global attention […]

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(UN)raveling Inequality

In September 2015, 150 member states of the United Nations came together to decide new strategies and goals to help confront the issues of poverty, wellbeing and the environment. The culmination of this event was the adoption of The Sustainable […]

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An Exit Strategy for Palestine

As the Syrian refugee crisis unfolds, let’s to turn our attention to another group of refugees – the Palestinian refugees.   When asked how she would describe her life, Salwa Ahmed summarizes it in three words: “A refugee-camp life.” She […]

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Has the UN Global Compact succeeded? What if it is failing?

After an introduction to the United Nations Global Compact (UN GC) in 2013 at the UN school of Multilateral Diplomacy, I became a fan of the United Nations and was impressed by the idea of having a Corporate Social Responsibility […]