What's On The Agenda at the Commission on the Status of Women This Year? A CSW Preview
The annual Commission on the Status of Women CSW is the second largest diplomatic gathering at the United Nations each year, after the General Assembly in September. Thousands of delegates from hundr...
9 Mar 202323min
Nigeria: These are the Major Challenges Facing Incoming President Bola Tinubu After a Controversial Election
On March 1st Bola Tinubu was declared the winner of Nigeria's sharply contested presidential election. In a three way race, Tinubu received 37% of the votes, enough to win him the presidency. Bola Ti...
6 Mar 202322min
Congresswoman Sara Jacobs | How (And Why) Congress Can Support UN Peacekeeping
Before joining the United States House of Representatives in 2021, Congresswoman Sara Jacobs worked at the United Nations and US State Department. As she explains, this experience gave her unique insi...
2 Mar 202325min
Better Know Ajay Banga, Biden's Pick to Lead The World Bank
On February 23rd, President Biden nominated former MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga to serve as the next World Bank president. His nomination came as a surprise to many in the international development commu...
27 Feb 202327min
How to Make Peace One Year After Russia's Invasion of Ukraine? | From the Inside Geneva Podcast
To mark the one year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Global Dispatches has teamed up with the podcast Inside Geneva to bring you a live recording in which host Imogen Foulkes is joined by...
24 Feb 202343min
An Extremely Fragile Democratic Transition is Underway in Sudan
In April 2019, Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir was ousted in a coup after nearly 30 years in power. The coup followed months of mass civilian protests against his regime. The transition from dictato...
23 Feb 202326min
How Guinea Worm Disease Came to the Cusp of Global Eradication
Humanity is tantalizingly close to killing off the last Guinea Worm. This is a water born parasite that when ingested grows and grows until it painfully exits the body through a lesion in the skin. Th...
20 Feb 202328min
Will War Resume Between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Nagorno-Karabakh is an ethnic Armenian enclave within the internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan. In the early 1990s Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a bloody war resulting in Armenia's de-fac...
13 Feb 202329min
