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UN Events and Campaigns: UN General Assembly Edition
This edition focuses on events held on the Occasion of the UN General Assembly, which begins September 18. The UN General Debates begin September 25. If you will be on the Seton Hall campus that day, you are welcome to join us for a watch party of the live broadcast...
read moreSaving the Climate Crisis with a new Border Carbon Adjustment proposal
During the summer, the Graduate Institute held the lecture “Does our Alarming Climate Crisis Demand Border Adjustments Now?” by John S. Odell, Professor Emeritus of International Relations with the University of Southern California, who researches the governance of...
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UN Events and Campaigns
UN Events and Campaigns UN Secretary-General's Climate Vision Speech Watch the UN Secretary-General deliver a Climate Vision Speech to an audience of young people, business leaders, journalists and diplomats on the eve of the Global Climate Action Summit in San...
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UN Events and Campaigns
UN Events and Campaigns Africa: Open For Business Summit High Level Summit During UN General Assembly Date: 26 September 2018, 5:30 - 7:00 pm Location: UN Headquarters, Conference Room 1 RSVP by 14 September to: Djibril Diallo, djibril.diallow@ardn.ngo...
read moreRecap of “We The Peoples” – The 67th UN DPI/NGO Conference Concept Note
It has been a little over a week since the 67th United Nations ‘We The Peoples’ conference concluded at the United Nations, but I dare to say that emotions are probably still running high along with a renewed sense of hope and purpose. The conference is hosted...
read moreDisarmament that saves lives
‘Disarmament that saves lives’ was the second event of a series organized to build on the Secretary-General’s Disarmament Agenda 'Securing our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament'. This town hall-oriented initiative aimed at taking forward the recommendations in...
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Kofi Annan
Note: This post was written by Hugh Dugan. Hugh Dugan is a Visiting Scholar at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and was a US diplomat and senior diplomatic adviser to eleven ambassadors to the United Nations from 1989 to 2015. On the death of the United...
read moreThe new Director of IOM talks about the challenges of migration
This summer, Antonio Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino was elected the new Director General of the International Organization for Migration by acclamation. According to Augusto Santos Silva, Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vitorino has a proven record in...
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Noted journalist Lucia Mouat contributes her collection of books on the UN Secretary-General to Seton Hall University
UN expert, noted journalist and author Lucia Mouat contributes her collection of books on the UN Secretary-General to Seton Hall. Lucia Mouat acquired and used over ninety books in writing her seminal work “The United Nations' Top Job: A Close Look at the Work of...
read moreNelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition took place at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland between July 15 and 20, 2018. Students from all universities in the world were invited to argue a hypothetical human rights case before a...
read moreUnited Nations Cine: River of Gold
In collaboration with the Geneva Graduate Institute, and on the occasion of World Environment Day, the United Nations Cine screened the film “River of Gold,” followed by a panel discussion with some experts: Charles Chaussepied, Former Director CSR and Corporate...
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The latest from Fox News: “UN warns it is ‘running out of cash’ in urgent appeal to members”
Fox News correspondents Adam Shaw and Ben Evansky report on Secretary-General António Guterres' call to Member States to pay their dues to the United Nations. In the article, Professor Hugh Dugan from the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall...
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UN News Centre – Top Stories
- Indigenous peoples ‘lag behind on all social and economic indicators’: UN deputy human rights chief September 19, 2018
- A third of world’s out-of-school youth live in conflict, disaster-affected countries: UNICEF report September 19, 2018
- Yemen: ‘Time is running out’ to head off devastating famine, warns UN food agency chief September 19, 2018
- South Sudanese soldier who shot UN peacekeeper on Saturday, will face court martial: UN mission chief September 19, 2018
- Make the guns fall silent. ‘Immediately and everywhere': South Sudan envoy September 18, 2018