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Feeding the World -- After Climate Change

By Matthew O. Berger | Dec 29, 2011

In the birthplace of the potato, things are heating up. Over the past decade, the Quechua farmers working at the El Parque de la Papa, outside Cusco, Peru, started noticing that the potato varieties they used to grow at lower altitudes can now only be cultivated much higher up the mountainside.

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How New Media Has Re-Imagined Human Rights

By Sameer Padania | Dec 13, 2011

How we communicate and connect, how we see and document the world around us, how we express ourselves—all have been transformed over the past decade. Hundreds of millions of us on every continent experience this directly in our daily lives, from receiving a text message or making a mobile call to video-chatting with relatives or colleagues around the world.

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A Preview of New UN Security Council Rotating Members' Agendas

By Thom Woodroofe | Nov 14, 2011

It's been called the United Nations' beauty pageant: Every year, a handful of states compete for the five rotating seats on the U.N. Security Council up for election.

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Security Top Concern For New Head of UN Mission in Iraq

By Irwin Arieff | Sep 26, 2011

The United Nations mission in Iraq will have a new leader just as the U.S. military begins to wrap up its presence there.

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A Place to Speak Openly, Just Across the Street From the UN

By Warren Hoge | Sep 12, 2011

In the winter of 2008, Terje Rod-Larsen, the president of the International Peace Institute, was talking to me about my becoming the organization’s vice president and director of external relations, and the selling point he chose to show me was a bustling construction site on the top floor of the UN Plaza building in New York, where the institute is based.

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Pakistani Is UN's Female Police Officer of the Year

A police officer from Pakistan who has been aiding victims of domestic violence and trafficking in Timor-Leste is the winner of the 2011 International Female Police Peacekeeper Award.

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Costa Rican Diplomat to Run Security Council Report

By Dulcie Leimbach | Jul 15, 2011

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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Security Concerns Delay Completion of Capital Master Plan

By Herve Couturier | Jun 15, 2011

Security concerns, stemming from recent terrorist attacks against United Nations compounds around the world, will mean at least six months’ delay in the renovation of New York headquarters, says the head of the project.

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The U.S. and Others Support Ban in His Re-election

By Dulcie Leimbach | Jun 08, 2011

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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U.S. Refugee Bureau Chief Is Heading to Academia

Eric Schwartz, U.S. assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, announced recently that he was leaving his position at the State Department to work as dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

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