Charlize Theron appointed U.N. Messenger of Peace

Source: United Nations

Academy Award-winning actress and activist Charlize Theron said yesterday she was honoured to go to work for the United Nations on the Secretary-General’s “UNite to End Violence against Women” campaign after being inducted as a UN Messenger of Peace.

The United Nations is in trouble

Source: Carne Ross (Independent Diplomat) on openDemocracy

The financial crisis has triggered calls for renovation if not replacement of the world’s outdated financial institutions. But there is another crisis – where the damage is measured in terms of real blood shed, not dollars or mortgages lost – that shouts out the need for change: this time at the United Nations, the world body charged with international peace and security.

U.N. American agenda after Bush

Source: National Review Online | by Anne Bayefsky

Nobody is happier about the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States than the folks at the United Nations. It is as if they finally discovered kryptonite, and Superman will soon be disabled.

What President Obama inherits…

Source: Good Magazine on YouTube

A world in crisis and foreign policy challenges await President Obama

Source: Reuters | By Caren Bohan

Newly-elected U.S. president Barack Obama will face a daunting array of foreign policy challenges, from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the global financial crisis to the need to shore up the country’s frayed international image.

Obama election unleashes a flood of hope worldwide

Source: The New York Times | By Alan Cowell

From the front lines of Iraq to more genteel spots like Harry’s Bar in Paris, the election of Barack Obama unlocked a floodgate of hope that a new American leader will redeem promises of change, rewrite the political script and, perhaps as important as anything else, provide a kind of leadership that will erase the bitterness of the Bush years.

Towards a “new Bretton Woods” to restore global confidence?

Source: The Financial Times | By Ben Hall and Jean Eaglesham

Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown have struck up an unlikely partnership ahead of next week’s summit in Washington aimed at overhauling the global financial system. The French president and the UK prime minister want agreement from the leaders of the G20 group of advanced and emerging economies in the US capital for a “new Bretton Woods”, a redesign of the postwar global financial architecture.

Nations should not to ignore climate change after financial crisis

Source: Reuters | By Nizam Ahmed

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged developed countries not to neglect climate change as they tend to a global economic slowdown and called on rich nations to help poor countries prone to global warming.