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May 13, 2020

Women and Women's Rights
Ambassadors for Gender Equality: Who They Are, What They Do, and Why They Matter

Since the United States appointed the first-ever Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues in 2009, ten more countries have followed, creating new posts focused on women's rights and gender equal…

U.S. Ambassador Melanne Verveer
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Women Around the World Women and Foreign Policy Program

June 6, 2016

International Organizations
Let the Sunshine in: Increasing Transparency in UN Elections

The following is a guest post by Megan Roberts, associate director of the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Sunlight is the best disinfect…

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Blog Post by Guest Blogger for the Internationalist The Internationalist

December 16, 2015

Health
The Future of the WHO: Lessons Learned and Priorities for Institutional Reform

The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. The unprecedented Ebola outbreak in West Africa underscored the i…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and WHO Director-General Margaret Chan attend a meeting at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, during the height of the Ebola crisis on October 1, 2014.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for the Internationalist The Internationalist

April 7, 2015

Politics and Government
Campaign 2016: Senator Rand Paul, GOP Presidential Candidate

Is America ready for a "Libertarian-ish" president? We are about to find out. Today Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) formally announced his presidential campaign, making him the second Republican candidate, …

Rand Paul Announcement
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

November 21, 2014

Cyber Week in Review: November 21, 2014

Here is a quick round-up of this week’s technology headlines and related stories you may have missed: China hosted a global Internet conference this week, where China’s Internet regulator and Pre…

Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma speaks to Fadi Chehade, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), on November 19, 2014 . (Courtesy Reuters/China Daily)
Blog Post by Adam Segal Net Politics