UN Day, 24 October, is only a few weeks away. To prepare for the festivities, the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS) and Katoikos are looking to build a video collage of 100 photos to symbolize what the UN represents to the citizens of the world as a part of our UN75+25 Alliance. We…
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 from economic, political, and social problems and to prevent armed conflicts, political disagreements and religious intolerance remain two of the main obstacles for having the…
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 phenomenon that has been reinventing itself from a neoliberal logic. Facing COVID-19 many countries had to establish new rules of coexistence to contain the spread…
by Richard Kinley, Georgios Kostakos and Harris Gleckman* On 21 September 2020 world leaders will observe the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, mainly through the delivery of pre-recorded speeches and not physical presence in New York because of Covid-19. Is the UN going hybrid/virtual and transitioning to the next phase of its existence, or…
Every human being is part of a community, whether rich or poor, privileged or not, communities are made up of diversities, and that’s exactly what makes everything so beautiful. But diversity calls for equality and that is where the problem lies, everything has to be the same for everyone, but at the same time, each…
Covid-19, along with its death toll of over 900K worldwide, stunted third-world countries further on the road to development and also exposed fatal, fundamental weaknesses in the infrastructure of governments and the UN, such as lack of engagement of youth. While the UN has been agile in projecting reports and schemes to overcome the crisis…
As the name suggests, the United Nations (UN) should represent the union of all nations around the globe. However, it is far from the truth. We are all living in a disparate world in which every country is speaking its own language. There is no cohesion even when the problems, in general lines, are the…
The mission of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security. As we enter into a new decade in the midst of a global pandemic, this mission should be held with even higher regard than it has in the past. The UN We Want for the World We Deserve should comprise of states…
