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JUN 10, 2016 Journal

Lost in Transformation? The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals

On September 25, 2015, the world’s leaders adopted a new suite of development goals—the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—that are to guide policymakers for the ...

JUN 10, 2016 Journal

Transformative Equality: Making the Sustainable Development Goals Work for Women

It is generally agreed by most observers that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have fallen short of achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. Today, ...

JUN 10, 2016 Journal

Equality as a Global Goal

The MDGs were often criticized for having a “blind spot” with regard to inequality and social injustice. Worse, they may even have contributed to entrenched ...

JUN 10, 2016 Journal

Accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals: A Lost Opportunity?

The question of accountability—or, more precisely, the question of how governments will be held to account for implementing the commitments made in this new ...

JUN 10, 2016 Journal

The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Humanitarian Drones

What comes to mind when we hear the word “drone”? For many of us, it is the image of a General Atomics MQ-1B Predator ...

JUN 9, 2016 Podcast

Global Ethics Forum Preview: A Conversation with Sarah Chayes on Corruption and Global Security

Next time on Global Ethics Forum, Carnegie Endowment's Sarah Chayes discusses corruption in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Egypt, and beyond. In this excerpt, Chayes, the author of "...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/134562672@N08/27544317025">Julia Berezovska/Press office NBU</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

JUN 8, 2016 Podcast

Ukraine Update

David Speedie discusses with Dr. Nicolai Petro the situation in Ukraine--political, economic, and the growing civil conflict between East and West--two years into the Poroshenko ...

JUN 6, 2016 Podcast

How Rights for Indigenous Peoples Can Save the Environment

From Greenland to Kenya, indigenous peoples are fighting for their land against governments, corporations, and climate change. UN special rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, herself an indigenous ...

JUN 2, 2016 Podcast

Global Ethics Forum Preview: Bearing Witness to War and Injustice with Photojournalist Ron Haviv

Next time on Global Ethics Forum, photojournalist Ron Haviv walks us through his images from Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, and more, and discusses the ethics of ...

United Nations headquarters in New York City. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mononoke/225965762">Ashitaka San</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">(CC)</a>

JUN 1, 2016 Podcast

An Evaluation of Gender Balance in the Leadership of the UN Secretariat

"We see the UN come out time and time again for a need for gender parity, not only within its organization, but at the state ...