More women are being appointed to lead UN missions, though geographic diversity is still an issue.
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Senior Appointments at the UN: Using Data for Greater Transparency
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.
Dr. Anne Marie Goetz delivers Alumna Speech at United World College of South-East Asia (UWCSEA)
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
MSGSCC Students Make Semi-Finals of Atlantic Council’s 9/12 Cyber Competition
In the Spring of 2020, NYU CGA’s cyber policy team, The Tron Wizards of Woolworth, made it to the semi-finals during their very first participation in The Atlantic Council’s national Cyber 9/12 policy competition (virtually) in Washington DC.
Connecting the Dots: Recapturing Episode 3 – In Defense of Multilateralism
This two-part episode of Connecting the Dots features Joe Colombano, who as Director of the UN SDG office was instrumental in creating and coordinating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Connecting the Dots: Recapturing Episode 1 – America’s Empathy Deficit
On this episode of Connecting the Dots, the NYU Center for Global Affairs sits down with Pulitzer Prize Winner, Nicholas Kristof, to discuss his new book Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. Our conversation covered issues of economic inequality and social injustices in modern America, as well as the empathy gap affecting its citizens.