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The Trump Administration Seeks Massive Cuts to the World Health Organization and UN Peacekeeping. Also, the Total Elimination of Funding for UNICEF

The budget request released this week by the White House recommends large cuts to US payments to several United Nations entities. This includes a 53% cut to the World Health Organization, which is at the front line of responding to...

The White House Seeks to Eliminate Funding for UNICEF

The budget request released by the White House this week includes massive cuts to international affairs spending, including deep cuts to the State Department and USAID. But also included in the Trump administration’s chopping block: UNICEF, the UN agency that...

American Companies Earn a Handsome Profit from the United Nations

The United Nations is a boon to American businesses. New research from the Better World Campaign finds that American companies were awarded $1.74 billion worth of contracts from the United Nations last year. That amounts to about 9% of the...

PODCAST: Journalist Laura Rozen on the Demise of the Iran Nuclear Deal and What Comes Next?

No journalist covered the ins and outs of the negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal as closely as Laura Rozen. She is a reporter with the middle east news website Al Monitor and in the negotiations that lead up...

Tillerson Out. Pompeo In. What does this mean for the North Korea Talks and Iran Deal?

UPDATE: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was sacked via Presidential tweet today, with Trump announcing that CIA Director Mike Pompeo would serve as his replacement. Pompeo is a fierce critic of the Iran Nuclear deal, and his ascension could put...

6 Takeaways from Donald Trump’s (extremely bellicose) speech to the United Nations General Assembly

1) War is more likely than it was before his speech This was the first time that I can recall a US president threatening to destroy a country from the podium of the United Nations. Belittling Kim Jong Un as...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is Just Doing His Job

Prince Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. As such, it is his job to call out human rights abuses and threats to human rights around the world. Just today, his office released a...

Trump Wants a Wall on the Border With Mexico. But a new UN Report Shows a Better Way to Stop Illegal Migration to the US

In a rabble-rousing speech in Arizona last week, President Trump doubled-down on his pledge to build a wall on the southern border of the United States to prevent would-be migrants from crossing the border illegally. Coincidentally, on that very day,...

The Trump Administration Seeks Massive Cuts to the World Health Organization and UN Peacekeeping. Also, the Total Elimination of Funding for UNICEF

The White House Seeks to Eliminate Funding for UNICEF

American Companies Earn a Handsome Profit from the United Nations

PODCAST: Journalist Laura Rozen on the Demise of the Iran Nuclear Deal and What Comes Next?

Tillerson Out. Pompeo In. What does this mean for the North Korea Talks and Iran Deal?

6 Takeaways from Donald Trump’s (extremely bellicose) speech to the United Nations General Assembly

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is Just Doing His Job

Trump Wants a Wall on the Border With Mexico. But a new UN Report Shows a Better Way to Stop Illegal Migration to the US

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations