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• UN Drug Office Warns that Global Drug Crisis Will Intensify

  27 de junio, puesto en línea por Oritro Karim
  Since 1989, the United Nations (UN) has recognized June 26 as the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in an effort to raise awareness around the global drug problem and foster a more compassionate world, free of drug abuse. Through this year’s campaign, “Break the Cycle. (…)

• UN80: Beyond Disposable Staff Distracting Reforms Restoring UN Effectiveness

  27 de junio, puesto en línea por Naima Abdellaoui
  Naïma Abdellaoui, Concerned International Civil Servant and Staff Representative. Member of the Executive Bureau of UNOG Staff Union

• ‘Enabling Machines to Make Life and Death Decisions Is Morally Unjustifiable’

  27 de junio, puesto en línea por CIVICUS
  CIVICUS discusses autonomous weapons systems and the campaign for regulation with Nicole van Rooijen, Executive Director of Stop Killer Robots, a global civil society coalition of over 270 organisations that campaigns for a new international treaty on autonomous weapons systems. In May, United (…)

• Fixing the House the World Built: A Realistic Plan for UN Reform

  27 de junio, puesto en línea por Stephanie Hodge
  I’ve spent much of my life in the machinery of international development, navigating acronyms, crises, and committee rooms with stale coffee. Through it all—amid war zones, climate summits, and remote island consultations—one institution has remained constant: the United Nations. Revered, (…)

• A Crisis-Stricken UN’s Frantic Hunt for Low-Cost Locations—away from New York & Geneva

  27 de junio, puesto en línea por Thalif Deen
  In the US, the success of a business enterprise or the value of real estate is reflected in a repetitive and alliterative phrase: “LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION”. As the UN continues its plans for system-wide restructuring– amidst a growing liquidity crisis– one of the key issues on the (…)