The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development cuts this video of the economist James Galbraith explaining how the financial crisis has effected levels of global inequality. Fascinating stuff.
The head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres headed to Kyrgyzstan this week to oversee the UN Refugee Agency's efforts there.
Sky News caught up with him yesterday.
In honor of Canada day, here is arguably the best classic rock song ever written about Canadian colonial history. Can't help but think the Acadians' plight might have been made easier should the international Organization for Migration or the UN Refugee Agency existed back in 1759.
I attended a panel at the New America Foundation yesterday that included James Traub (one of my favorite authors), Steve Clemons (a friend and former boss) and Pauline Baker of the Fund for Peace for a discussion of the Fund's
Earlier this month, a United Nations report estimated that 89% of primary school-aged children in the developing world were enrolled in school. Achieving universal primary education by 2015 goal number 2 of the Millennium Development Goals, which has galvanized international efforts to help the developing world reach this goal. In Europe, trafficking in humans is a 2.4 billion euro industry. This is according to a new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime: At any one time, over 140,000 victims are trapped in this vicious cycle of violence, abuse and degradation across Europe with no clear sign of the overall number of victims decreasing. There is a high turnover of 50 per cent of trafficking victims in Europe with up to 70,000 additional victims being exploited every year. Nick Kristof's column in the Sunday New York Times described how certain metals used in common electronic equipment like iPods and cell phones are fueling conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The UN Refugee Agency posts this harrowing video of people fleeing violence in southern Kyrgyzstan. It seems that once again, UN run summer camps for Gaza children are being targeted by extremists: