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Mark Leon Goldberg is the executive editor of UN Dispatch

Clean Cookstoves

Earlier today, our friends at the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves hosted a press telebriefing.  If you are new to this issue, the MP3 below offers a good explanation of the problem of indoor household emissions and how clean cookstoves can help.

mHealth for Brazil’s Indigenous Communities

At the Mobile World Congress underway in Barcelona today, the UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation announced a new initiative to study how mobile health technologies may be harnessed to improve health care in Brazil's indigenous communities.

Susan Rice Fires Back at [Congressional] Critics of UN Funding

UN Ambassador Susan Rice delivered what was billed as "major speech" to the World Affairs Council of Oregon this afternoon. Much of the speech was devoted to making what you might call the economic case for continued American engagement at the United Nations.

UN On The Pulse of Innovation

As part of Social Media Week underway in New York City, UN Global Pulse, a project of the UN Secretary-General’s office, lead two days of discussion on how open, social and real-time technologies are changing relationships between people and institutions.