A coalition of local human rights groups have invited the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism to visit Minneapolis as part of their visit to the United States this fall.
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United Nations issues ‘Code Red’ for humanity in climate crisis
‘We need concrete plans to phase out fossil fuels in the near term. As the scientists at the IPCC make clear, there is no time left to waste.’
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How an aid gusher helped and hurt Liberia
International economists have tried and failed to prove that getting more aid makes economies healthier. In this case, international assistance may have merely propped Liberia up.
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Mourning Kofi Annan, remembering Ron Walters
Kofi Annan’s contributions to the UN are twofold, in my opinion. First, he was committed to peace, and to the UN’s peacekeeping role. He saw human rights as more important than “state sovereignty” and felt that the UN had a role in maintaining citizen rights in the face of state brutality.
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WATCH: The United Nations mourns former Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Annan had a Minnesota connection. In 1961, he graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul and returned to the campus numerous times for speaking engagements, most recently in May of this year for the dedication of the Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship.
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United Nations report puts U.S. to shame among developed countries
Now, in contrast to America’s “founding commitment to human rights,” all of us will recognize that the United States and “its immense wealth” were built largely on the forced removal of Native peoples from their land, the free labor of African slaves, and myriad other human rights violations.