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I miss 2015. It was a landmark year. In the space of 12 short months governments signed a slew of…
In late February, Donald Trump announced Kelly Knight Craft, a 57-year-old Kentucky native, as his pick to succeed Nikki Haley…
They came for Niloufar more than a year ago. On 24th and 25th January 2018, Niloufar Bayani, a former colleague…
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As I write, delegates are starting to arrive in Nairobi for the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). The Assembly starts…
With climate change increasingly being seen as a security issue, there is a question about what role the United Nations…
Stick with me here, but I’m going to try to argue that for those working in international development, bureaucracy is…