• Dulcie Leimbach

    About Dulcie Leimbach

    Dulcie Leimbach was until recently the publications director at the United Nations Association of the USA, where for three years she edited its flagship magazine, The InterDependent, migrating it online in 2010. She was also the senior editor of UNA's annual book, "A Global Agenda: Issues Before the UN." Before UNA, Leimbach was an editor at The New York Times for more than 20 years, where she worked on most of the news desks and wrote for many sections of the paper. She has been a fellow at Yaddo and taught news reporting at Hofstra University. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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    In Washington, a Seasoned Hand at the UN’s Development Office

    by  • May 4, 2012 • Development, GOINGS-ON, US-UN Relations • 0 Comments

    UNDP in Washington

    After six years as director of the United Nations Information Center in Washington, D.C., Will Davis is now leading the UN Development Program’s office in the capital, promoting the agency’s interests among constituents at Congress, the White House, nonprofit groups and the media. He joined the agency in January. Rodney Bent, a former senior adviser [...]

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    Defending the International Criminal Court From the Outside

    by  • April 30, 2012 • Africa, ICC, International Justice • 0 Comments

    US ambassador for war crimes

    The International Criminal Court‘s judgment against the warlord Thomas Lubanga for conscripting child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed that “a permanent international criminal court is on the job,” Stephen Rapp, ambassador at large for the US State Department, said at Columbia University Law School this month. The Lubanga guilty verdict in [...]

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    The International Criminal Court’s Stance on Torture

    by  • March 30, 2012 • ICC, International Justice • 1 Comment

    ICC Bemba

    People who deal professionally with victims of physical and psychological torture want to not only heal their patients but also stop torture dead in its tracks. So they were pleased to learn that like other individuals or groups, they could submit evidence they had gathered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, says [...]

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    UN Security Council Sends an Observer Team to Syria

    by  • April 14, 2012 • Middle East, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council • 0 Comments

    Russian ambassador to the UN

    The Security Council passed a resolution on Saturday allowing a team of 30 unarmed military observers to enter Syria as soon as Sunday to monitor the cease-fire that has more or less been respected since Thursday. Up to 250 observers, drawn mostly from United Nations peacekeeping troops in the region, are to eventually make up [...]

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