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by YVETTE D. CLARKE AND MICHAEL SHANK This article was originally published in Newsweek. President Joe Biden‘s long-awaited American Jobs Plan has finally arrived, clocking in at $2.3 trillion in spending over eight years. In today’s dollars, this is almost 5 times
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by Anne Marie Goetz On October 22, the ‘UN Senior Leadership Dashboard’ was launched by the Center for Global Affairs, the NYU Center for International Cooperation, and the missions to the UN of Ghana and the State of Qatar, both
More women are being appointed to lead UN missions, though geographic diversity is still an issue.
UN secretary-general António Guterres launched a strategy to achieve a long-overdue goal of gender parity among staff across the UN in September 2017. While the deadline to parity was set at 2028 for the UN entities farthest behind, and 2026 for those with good records already, the SG announced in March 2020 that he had already achieved parity in the most senior appointments (the ones most directly under his personal control), a year ahead of schedule.
On May 23 2020, Clinical Professor Anne Marie Goetz delivered (online, pre-recorded) the Alumna Commencement speech for the 2020 graduating class at United World College of South-East Asia (UWCSEA) The recorded delivery is a slightly abridged version of the text
Summary of results of a research-based Practicum organized by the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders and the Center for Global Affairs of the School of Professional Studies at NYU
