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    Anne-Marie Slaughter, Writer and Academic, to Run US Policy Group

    by  • April 4, 2013 • GOINGS-ON, Women's Issues • 

    Anne-Marie Slaughter

    The New America Foundation has appointed Anne-Marie Slaughter as the organization’s next president as of Sept. 1, 2013. The foundation calls itself a nonpartisan public policy think tank, though its reputation is more progressive than any other. Its annual budget is more than $20 million and it concentrates on a range of subjects, including national [...]

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    Michelle Bachelet, UN Women Chief, Resigns

    by  • March 16, 2013 • GOINGS-ON, Women's Issues • 2 Comments

    Michelle Bachelet, the UN Women chief, has resigned. She is returning to Chile, her home country, to most likely run for president.

    Michelle Bachelet, the head of the United Nations agency promoting the rights of women and gender equality, has told Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that she is stepping down after two years in the job. Bachelet, a former Chilean president, is likely to run for president of her country again in elections this fall. She made the announcement about [...]

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    Mary Robinson, New UN Special Envoy for Central Africa?

    by  • March 13, 2013 • Africa, GOINGS-ON, Peace and Security • 2 Comments

    Mary Robinson of The Elders

    Mary Robinson, a former president of Ireland, United Nations high commissioner for human rights and philanthropist, is said to be the main candidate for the new United Nations special envoy post for the Great Lakes region in central Africa. The area generally covers Burundi, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and some parts [...]

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    US Envoy for Global Women’s Issues Leaves for Georgetown

    by  • February 22, 2013 • GOINGS-ON, Women's Issues • 3 Comments

    Melanne Verveer

    Melanne Verveer, most recently the United States ambassador at large for global women’s issues, is the new executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, which officially opened Feb. 21. Verveer had been appointed to the government post, the first of its kind for the country, by President Obama when it was [...]

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    UN Counterterrorism Director Staying on Briefly

    by  • January 23, 2013 • GOINGS-ON, Security Council • 2 Comments

    Mike Smith, Executive Director of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED),

    Mike Smith, the executive director of the Security Council’s Counterterrorism Committee Executive Directorate, is to be reappointed to a six-month term through June as a search for his successor begins, he confirmed with PassBlue. Smith would not say whether he wanted to extend his term for a longer period, but he noted that he intended [...]

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    Former Timorese President Chosen as UN Envoy in Guinea-Bissau

    by  • January 2, 2013 • Africa, GOINGS-ON, Security Council • 1 Comment

    Jose Ramos-Horta, new chief of the UN peace-building mission in Guinea-Bissau

    José Ramos-Horta has been appointed the new United Nations envoy to Guinea-Bissau. The former Timorese president and Nobel Peace Prize winner is replacing Joseph Mutaboba, a diplomat from Rwanda, as the special representative and chief of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau. Mutaboba, 63, finishes his assignment, which lasted nearly four years, at the end [...]

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    Holiday Gifts Reduced at the UN: Pick Your Country

    by  • December 18, 2012 • GOINGS-ON • 

    Wooden decorative dolls from Austria at the UN Gift Center.

    The United Nations Gift Center is relocating, along with the UN post office and bookstore, to the Dag Hammarskjold Library building by April or May for the continuing renovation of the UN, including the lower lobby area. The gift shop, post office and book store will still be accessible to the public in their new [...]

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    The UN’s ‘College’ in Turin

    by  • November 4, 2012 • GOINGS-ON • 1 Comment

    UN System Staff College, Turin

    Turin is a delightfully walkable city on the River Po, with distinctive arcades along wide boulevards, grand squares, lovely parks, good restaurants and a comfortable pace of life. I had the good fortune to visit Turin with Kofi Annan in 1997, his first year as United Nations secretary-general. He came to inspect a project called [...]

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