The Commission on the Status of Women concludes this week at the United Nations. The CSW, as it is known, is one of the major annual events at UN headquarters. In terms of sheer size and number ...
https://undispatch.com/what-happened-at-the-un-commission-on-the-status-of-women-this-year/
The security and humanitarian situation in Haiti has deteriorated sharply over the last several days. The country had been ensnared in an enduring crisis following the 2021 assassination of Presi...
https://undispatch.com/why-haiti-has-taken-a-turn-for-the-even-worse/
Western countries have seized hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian assets following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago. Since then, the question of what to do with thos...
https://undispatch.com/why-confiscated-russian-assets-must-pay-for-ukraines-reconstruction/
Alexander Ward ia national security reporter for POLITICO and author of the book “The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump.” We discuss the implications...
In this Global Dispatches podcast episode, Clemence Landers of the Center for Global Development discusses the upcoming replenishments of several global development funds and the potential challe...
https://undispatch.com/replenishment-global-health-foreign-aid-global-development/
On January 28th, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger jointly announced they were leaving the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. This is a regional economic and political union of most co...
https://undispatch.com/why-mali-niger-and-burkina-faso-are-leaving-ecowas/
2024 is an important year for African democracy. At least 19 national elections are scheduled to take place this year. Not all of these elections will be free or fair — let alone competitive. S...
https://undispatch.com/why-2024-is-a-key-year-for-democracy-in-africa/
On January 25th, a milestone was reached in humanity’s long fight against Malaria. For the first time ever, a Malaria vaccine was included in a country’s routine childhood vaccinations progra...
https://undispatch.com/a-milestone-in-the-fight-against-malaria/
The United Nations is hosting a “Summit of the Future” in September during the annual opening the UN General Assembly. If all goes according to plan, world leaders will endorse a so-called �...
https://undispatch.com/the-promise-and-potential-of-the-uns-summit-of-the-future/
I met my interview guest Johan Bergenas somewhat randomly. I was at a conference. It was coffee break time. I was desperately looking for somewhere to place a cup of coffee that was quickly burni...
https://undispatch.com/where-countries-may-go-to-war-for-fish/