Dulcie Leimbach was until recently the director of publications for UNA-USA, where she migrated the print version of The InterDependent to the World Wide Web, turning the magazine into a modern, well-read entity in the UN and world affairs community. Under her tenure, the online version of the ID featured such writers as Barbara Crossette, Irwin Arieff, Herve Couturier, Evelyn Leopold, Stephen Schlesinger, Mark Turner, Thomas G. Weiss, Karen Freeman, Samir Sanbar, Mirva Lempiainen, Helmut Volger, Jeff Laurenti, Laura Seay, Laura Trevelyan and Warren Hoge. The range of topics was enormous, from ocean debris to vaccinations in Congo, from dining at the German mission to the UN to arrests by the International Criminal Court. Leimbach was responsible for assigning and editing the articles and working as the photo editor in addition to promoting the magazine and selling ads. She previously worked for more than two decades at The New York Times editing, among others, Pulitzer Prize winning columnists and the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. Her articles appeared in the following sections: Op-Ed, Book Review, Sunday Magazine, Arts & Leisure, Weekend, Education Life, Real Estate and Business. She has also published fiction in literary journals and was a fellow at the Yaddo Corporation in 1987. Leimbach has a journalism degree from the University of Colorado and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, N.C. She taught newswriting and reporting at Hofstra University and was a guest lecturer on op-ed writing at the Bronx High School of Science. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with her family. To reach her, e-mail penney@inch.com.
The United Nations is poised to play a “strong role” in the post-conflict stage in Libya as the Libyan rebels’ government has expressed its desire to have the world body take part in the country’s rebuilding, B. Lynn Pascoe, under secretary-general for political affairs at the UN, told the media recently.
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Bruno Stagno Ugarte of Costa Rica has been named the new executive director of the Security Council Report. He is to begin at the end of July. Stagno was until recently the minister of foreign affairs of Costa Rica, during which the country was a nonpermanent member of the Security Council in 2008-2009. From 2002 to 2006, he was the permanent representative of Costa Rica to the UN.
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Michel Bonnardeaux, a public affairs officer in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, spoke in June with UNA-USA members nationwide on a teleconference moderated by Roger Nokes, membership coordinator for UNA-USA, which publishes The InterDependent.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 66, announced on June 6 his plan to run for a second five-year term, which begins on Jan. 1, 2012. Ban, a Korean, is running unopposed; his bid is likely to be accepted by the Security Council and voted on in the General Assembly by next month.
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Mariano Fernández, a former minister of foreign affairs for Chile, was named special envoy for Haiti by the UN this month. Fernández will run the peacekeeping mission, known as Minustah, at its base in the capital of Port-au-Prince. He replaces Edmond Mulet of Guatemala, who headed the mission after Hédi Annabi of Tunisia was killed in the January 2010 earthquake.
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One “champion” led a fleet of electric vehicles around the world in 80 days; another is a national president committed to mitigating climate change; while a third produces nonelectric air-conditioning systems, another sings professionally about environmental causes and a fifth is an activist striving to ban toxic chemicals and pesticides in the former Soviet Union.
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The General Assembly hall felt a lot younger when 2,400 leaders convened one recent evening to represent 24 countries at the United Nations.
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Malaria is both preventable and treatable, yet more than 200 million cases are reported each year, felling nearly 1 million people – mostly children and refugees in sub-Saharan Africa.
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An Iranian journalist has been awarded this year’s Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize from Unesco. Ahmad Zeidabadi is serving a six-year jail sentence that began in December 2009, after mass protests erupted months earlier over the results of the presidential election in June 2009, when the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was named the winner.
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China did not know what it was getting into when it headed toward March. While the battles in Libya between rebel fighters and the forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi intensified, and the Security Council began discussing the imposition of a no-fly zone, China took on the rotating council presidency last month.
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