Poor countries push back at COP15. Poor countries push back at COP15.
Are COP15 talks lurching toward the precipice of collapse?
Dec 14, 2009 / Robert S. Eshelman
Missing the forest for the trees. Missing the forest for the trees.
Every cloud has a silver lining -- except in Copenhagen.
Dec 14, 2009 / Robert S. Eshelman
Big News from Copenhagen: Radical Cuts Urged, Deal In Jeopardy Big News from Copenhagen: Radical Cuts Urged, Deal In Jeopardy
The Alliance of Small Island Nations roils summit with call for huge emissions reductions as activists prepare for global day of action tomorrow
Dec 11, 2009 / Mark Hertsgaard
Confronting the Globalcrat Confronting the Globalcrat
Globalization advocates must realize that they're dealing with a new world.
Dec 2, 2009 / Greg Palast
Obama’s Choice Obama’s Choice
A decade after Seattle, there is no WTO expansion. But there is also no WTO turnaround.
Dec 1, 2009 / Feature / Lori Wallach
The World’s Women Stuck in the UN’s Blind Spot The World’s Women Stuck in the UN’s Blind Spot
"Mainstreaming" a focus on women into all of the United Nations' work never happened. So will an agency for women ever get off the ground?
Nov 17, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
Putting Caste on Notice Putting Caste on Notice
Navi Pillay is the first UN human rights commissioner to take on caste discrimination.
Oct 26, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
US-UN Ties Still Strained US-UN Ties Still Strained
Barely a week after Barack Obama plunged into the UN for three unprecedented days, our reconciliation with the organization is already showing fault lines.
Oct 2, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
At the UN, Obama Moves In At the UN, Obama Moves In
This week's UN General Assembly session will be memorable not so much for what is said by the lineup of world leaders as for the sustained involvement of one of them: Barack Obama.
Sep 22, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
Upset at Unesco: Bulgaria Wins Top Job Upset at Unesco: Bulgaria Wins Top Job
In a surprise victory, Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova becomes the first female and first Eastern European head of Unesco.
Sep 22, 2009 / Feature / Barbara Crossette