Tag Archives: UN
IAEA General Conference blog
From Monday next week I’ll be at the International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference (here in Vienna) contributing to the VERTIC Trust and Verify blog coverage of the event. VERTIC is a London-based NGO dealing with verification (checking and confidence-building … Continue reading
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A specialised UN agency for the ladyfolk?
Here’s a bit of background info on the idea of a UN specialised agency for women, which recently came floating back up to the top of the UN pile of proposals. Doesn’t the UN already have a women’s agency? No. … Continue reading
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A beginner’s guide to ‘that’ speech
It’s a shame that the MTV Movie Awards have closed voting for their newly-added ‘WTF?’ section for this year! If you didn’t see it yesterday, it’s Ahmadinejad’s speech going into total meltdown at the UN Durban Review Conference on racism … Continue reading
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Human trafficking
The UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have just launched the Blue Heart campaign to promote awareness of the issue of human trafficking. Isn’t raising awareness a bit wimpy and bleeding-heart? Well, no. Human trafficking suffers from the problem that everybody knows … Continue reading
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Kiss kiss bang bang
Taking a break away from posts about terrorism for the time being (if not the US), here’s a nice fairytale about a little frog living in a land far far away, waiting for a princess to come kiss it and … Continue reading
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A beginner’s guide to terrorism
(Ok, well, a beginner’s guide to defining terrorism.) Asking “what is terrorism?” is not dissimilar to asking “what is emo?” It is notoriously difficult to define, and seems to have a Cartesian knowing-the-wax quality to it. There is no universally … Continue reading
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