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Environment Climate Change and Vulnerable Groups: How Communication Can Help

By Renata Juliotti

Climate change is a threat to global peace, security, and prosperity. It poses a threat to human and natural systems due to their vulnerability and exposure. Vulnerability, in this context, is...
Environment Olympics – A Celebration for Humanity, A Disaster For the Environment

By Manan Shah

The Olympics, the world’s most celebrated international sporting tournament, needs no introduction. Inspired by the Ancient Olympic Games, held in Olympia, Greece more than two thousand years ...

Foreign Affairs, Environment The Fragile Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti

By Renata Juliotti

In a matter of days, an earthquake and a tropical storm (Grace) hit one of the poorest Caribbean islands, leading to at least 2,400 deaths and over 13.000 serious injuries. It is estimated tha...
LGBTI Pride Month 2021: Why We Need Pride

By Sean Bennett

This month, millions of people around the world will be observing Pride month, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and the progress that has been made towards equality and equal rights in recent ...

Foreign Affairs Keep Your Friends Close: Washington Spies on NATO Partners

By Pedro.Sanches

The US National Security Agency (NSA) used a partnership with Denmark’s foreign intelligence unit to spy on citizens of the European Union, Danish state broadcaster DR said. According to the i...
LGBTI Governments Under Pressure to End Conversion Therapy

By Sean Bennett

‘Conversion therapy’, as defined by the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, refers to ‘any form of treatment or psychotherapy which aim to change a person’s sexual orientation or to ‘suppress a person’s...

Environment Climate Change and Vulnerable Groups: How Communication Can Help

By Renata Juliotti

Climate change is a threat to global peace, security, and prosperity. It poses a threat to human and natural systems due to their vulnerability and exposure. Vulnerability, in this context, is...

Environment Olympics – A Celebration for Humanity, A Disaster For the Environment

By Manan Shah

The Olympics, the world’s most celebrated international sporting tournament, needs no introduction. Inspired by the Ancient Olympic Games, held in Olympia, Greece more than two thousand years ...

Foreign Affairs, Environment The Fragile Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti

By Renata Juliotti

In a matter of days, an earthquake and a tropical storm (Grace) hit one of the poorest Caribbean islands, leading to at least 2,400 deaths and over 13.000 serious injuries. It is estimated tha...

LGBTI Pride Month 2021: Why We Need Pride

By Sean Bennett

This month, millions of people around the world will be observing Pride month, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and the progress that has been made towards equality and equal rights in recent ...

Foreign Affairs Keep Your Friends Close: Washington Spies on NATO Partners

By Pedro.Sanches

The US National Security Agency (NSA) used a partnership with Denmark’s foreign intelligence unit to spy on citizens of the European Union, Danish state broadcaster DR said. According to the i...

LGBTI Governments Under Pressure to End Conversion Therapy

By Sean Bennett

‘Conversion therapy’, as defined by the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, refers to ‘any form of treatment or psychotherapy which aim to change a person’s sexual orientation or to ‘suppress a person’s...

Afghanistan First Experiences in Kabul

By Keshav Gupta

In April 2018, at New Delhi International Airport, I boarded the flight heading to Kabul, along with a couple of my colleagues from The Dais. Initially filled with excitement as I entered the ...
Climate, Global Governance A Global Resilience Council: Why? And if yes, how?

By Global Challenges Foundation

This is a republished version of the original article published on the Global Challenges Foundation website, which you can access here. The climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic harshly h...

Climate World Environment Day: Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.

By Katoikos

Reimagine. Recreate. Restore. Those are the watchwords of World Environment Day, an annual day of celebration and contemplation taking place globally on June 5th every year. In 2021, Pakistan ...
Dialogue Our twelve points go to …. Eurovision: A political PR tool, a unifier of diversity, a m...

By Katoikos

By Stuart Best and Péter Kakucska After being postponed a year for the first time in its 65-year history, the curtains will finally part this weekend for one of the world’s largest annual show...

Society Greece’s #MeToo Movement: Better Late than Never

By Maro Mantziara

A few months ago, two-time sailing Olympic medallist Sofia Bekatorou was the first to break her silence and publicly reveal that she had been sexually assaulted by a high-ranking Hellenic Sail...
Global Governance A New Treaty for Global Health Governance?

By Stuart Best

Last week, 24 world leaders published an open letter in leading publications around the world calling for a new global treaty. This would “foster an all-of-government and all-of-society appro...

Afghanistan First Experiences in Kabul

By Keshav Gupta

In April 2018, at New Delhi International Airport, I boarded the flight heading to Kabul, along with a couple of my colleagues from The Dais. Initially filled with excitement as I entered the ...

Climate, Global Governance A Global Resilience Council: Why? And if yes, how?

By Global Challenges Foundation

This is a republished version of the original article published on the Global Challenges Foundation website, which you can access here. The climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic harshly h...

Climate World Environment Day: Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.

By Katoikos

Reimagine. Recreate. Restore. Those are the watchwords of World Environment Day, an annual day of celebration and contemplation taking place globally on June 5th every year. In 2021, Pakistan ...

Dialogue Our twelve points go to …. Eurovision: A political PR tool, a unifier of diversity, a m...

By Katoikos

By Stuart Best and Péter Kakucska After being postponed a year for the first time in its 65-year history, the curtains will finally part this weekend for one of the world’s largest annual show...

Society Greece’s #MeToo Movement: Better Late than Never

By Maro Mantziara

A few months ago, two-time sailing Olympic medallist Sofia Bekatorou was the first to break her silence and publicly reveal that she had been sexually assaulted by a high-ranking Hellenic Sail...

Global Governance A New Treaty for Global Health Governance?

By Stuart Best

Last week, 24 world leaders published an open letter in leading publications around the world calling for a new global treaty. This would “foster an all-of-government and all-of-society appro...

Citizen Correspondent A European in Brexit Britain

By Birgit Bennett

If I had a Euro for every time I’ve heard phrases like “we don’t mean people like you” or “you’ll be fine” or “nothing will change” in relation to Brexit, I would be a very wealthy lady by now...

The invisible ones: people with disabilities in Latin America

By Renata Juliotti

“I feel the pandemic has highlighted the invisibility of people with disabilities,” said the mother of Luigi Gabriel, a 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. Throughout history, it has been prov...

COVID-19, risk communication and the crucial role of community leaders

By Cilene Victor

As I am writing this article, someone is being infected by the novel coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) around the world and the statistics of the pandemic are updated and disseminated by some online pl...

Editorials Is Anybody Observing UN Day?

By Katoikos

October 24th is observed worldwide as “UN Day”, the day that the Charter of the United Nations Organization came into effect. The year was 1945, at the end of World War II, and it was the star...
Editorials SHAMEBOOK: Reining in Socially Irresponsible Media

By Katoikos

The latest revelations about Facebook come to confirm what many of us knew or strongly suspected already: The profit motive is the main driving force behind Mr Zuckerberg’s Empire, which also ...
Editorials The Global Village is meeting again, but is there really a Common Agenda?

By Katoikos

The annual meeting of the “global village chiefs”, also known as “General Debate” of the United Nations General Assembly is due to start this coming Tuesday, 21 September 2021. It is the openi...

Op-ed Forget Build Back Better – What If Crisis Is The New Normal?

By Georgios Kostakos

This is a republished version of the original article published on EuroNews, which you can access here. As we slowly exit pandemic lockdown mode – at least those of us who are fully vaccinat...
Editorials Bring in the Troops: Deploying (Un)Armed Forces in Civilian Emergencies

By Katoikos

News bulletins in recent weeks have been full of references to natural disasters, floods in Western Europe, India and China, wildfires from California to the Mediterranean and even Siberia. Fe...
Editorials World Youth Skills Day 2021: Life after Covid

By Katoikos

In 2014, the UN general assembly declared that July 15th would henceforth be celebrated as World Youth Skill Day, a day on which the importance of providing skills and training to young people...

Op-ed UN Charter Day – ‘UN Multilateralism’ by Richard Kinley

By Richard Kinley

The following keynote speech was delivered by Richard Kinley on 17th June 2021 at the Coalition for the UN We Need‘s online event – ‘Europe and North America Regional Consultation: working tog...
Op-ed Interview with Harsh Mander: ‘We Must Reclaim the Idea of Fraternity.’

By Yoriko Yasukawa

India – one of the cradles of human civilization, an economic powerhouse with the fifth-biggest GDP among all countries, the largest and most diverse democracy in the world. Yet recently, the ...
Op-ed On Urgency and Ambition: Hope and Realism on the Road to COP26 – Glasgow

By Katoikos

Following US President Joe Biden’s recent Leaders Summit on Climate (22-23 April 2021), the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS) assembled a panel of distinguished speak...

Editorials Is Anybody Observing UN Day?

By Katoikos

October 24th is observed worldwide as “UN Day”, the day that the Charter of the United Nations Organization came into effect. The year was 1945, at the end of World War II, and it was the star...

Editorials SHAMEBOOK: Reining in Socially Irresponsible Media

By Katoikos

The latest revelations about Facebook come to confirm what many of us knew or strongly suspected already: The profit motive is the main driving force behind Mr Zuckerberg’s Empire, which also ...

Editorials The Global Village is meeting again, but is there really a Common Agenda?

By Katoikos

The annual meeting of the “global village chiefs”, also known as “General Debate” of the United Nations General Assembly is due to start this coming Tuesday, 21 September 2021. It is the openi...

Op-ed Forget Build Back Better – What If Crisis Is The New Normal?

By Georgios Kostakos

This is a republished version of the original article published on EuroNews, which you can access here. As we slowly exit pandemic lockdown mode – at least those of us who are fully vaccinat...

Editorials Bring in the Troops: Deploying (Un)Armed Forces in Civilian Emergencies

By Katoikos

News bulletins in recent weeks have been full of references to natural disasters, floods in Western Europe, India and China, wildfires from California to the Mediterranean and even Siberia. Fe...

Editorials World Youth Skills Day 2021: Life after Covid

By Katoikos

In 2014, the UN general assembly declared that July 15th would henceforth be celebrated as World Youth Skill Day, a day on which the importance of providing skills and training to young people...

Op-ed UN Charter Day – ‘UN Multilateralism’ by Richard Kinley

By Richard Kinley

The following keynote speech was delivered by Richard Kinley on 17th June 2021 at the Coalition for the UN We Need‘s online event – ‘Europe and North America Regional Consultation: working tog...

Op-ed Interview with Harsh Mander: ‘We Must Reclaim the Idea of Fraternity.’

By Yoriko Yasukawa

India – one of the cradles of human civilization, an economic powerhouse with the fifth-biggest GDP among all countries, the largest and most diverse democracy in the world. Yet recently, the ...

Op-ed On Urgency and Ambition: Hope and Realism on the Road to COP26 – Glasgow

By Katoikos

Following US President Joe Biden’s recent Leaders Summit on Climate (22-23 April 2021), the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS) assembled a panel of distinguished speak...

UN75+25: The Pandemic as another Chance for Opening towards Omnilateralism?

By Wolfgang Pape

Calculations by the London School of Economics show it clearly. If early on Wuhan could have directly informed a truly “global health organisation” and the epidemic thus been restricted to its...

UN75+25: A history model for a model future

By Savio Alencar

The United Nations (UN) is formed by the so-called Member States that assemble to promote both world peace and world unity. However, despite humanitarian actions to help nations that suffer fr...

UN75+25: For a future that does not choose economy over life

By Thainá Freitas

We are living in dark times because of the pandemic of COVID-19, which has been affecting many structures of society. Many of the social and economic problems, though, are a historical phenome...

Art ‘Different Worldviews, Same Planet’ – Ryan Fleming

By Ryan Fleming

Art ‘Famine Horse’ – In observance of World Food Safety Day 2021

By Ryan Fleming

Artist of the Month Christos Mouzeviris: Writer, Photographer, Painter and a True Global Citizen

By Maro Mantziara

Christos Mouzeviris was born in December 1977 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Although his artistic inclination was evident from a very young age and he had always demonstrated an interest in pursuin...

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Foreign Affairs, Environment The Fragile Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti

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