WFD, another United Nations World Day? How boring! But this one isn't. In spite of its bland name, WFD or...

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My (Adventurous) Life at the United Nations: First Mission, Mauritania October 1980. The sky is an intense blue over Mauritania’s...

I'm very pleased to have Dan Bloom with me today. Dan is a journalist and “green” activist, a Tufts graduate...

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In the 1990s, the political world,  the so-called "international community" could not countenance the growth of a UN agency that apparently...

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The oldest United Nations technical agency, and at one point in its chaotic history, the largest, has a bizarre name...