Throughout history, Black women have played a crucial yet often overlooked role in shaping U.S. foreign policy. With their hard work and determination, their contributions extend beyond traditional diplomatic spheres, influencing international relations, immigration, global security, and humanitarian efforts.
This year's celebration addressed the fight for women's right to digital access and tech opportunities.
The UN wants to not only see perpetrators in jail, but provide more help for victims.
(AP) — A group founded by American actor George Clooney said Tuesday it has teamed up with Google, a U.N. agency and anti-genocide organizations to launch satellite surveillance of the border between north and south Sudan to try to prevent a new civil war after the south votes in a secession referendum next month. Clooney’s Not On […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Forces loyal to incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast were trying to “starve” U.N. peacekeepers into “submission” by blocking their supplies at border crossings, as the West African nation slid into a “real risk of a return to civil war,” U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. In an address […]
(CNN) — Six months after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, most governments that promised money to help rebuild the country have not delivered any funds at all, a CNN investigation has found. Donors promised $5.3 billion at an aid conference in March, about two months after the earthquake — but less than 2 percent of that […]
(Associated Press) — Actor Don Cheadle has become a spokesman for the United Nations environment program.He was appointed Saturday in Rwanda’s capital as a U.N. Environment Program Goodwill Ambassador and vowed to fight climate change and promote environment conservation. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner announced the appointment, saying that Cheadle would help raise green awareness […]