By Richard Seifman, UNA-NCA Board and Impakter Senior Columnist Throughout history, good sanitation has been a matter of life and death. Cholera and other pandemics relied on sanitary measures as much as advances in medicine. COVID can be transmitted from waste and as a result, its management is among key…

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Reflecting on this past year as an Emerging Leader, describe what you have learned to help you continue to be a force of change after the competition of this program. Brayden Mahoney, College Senior This past year as an Emerging Leader has been a great experience in which I have been able to expand…

By Richard Seifman, UNA-NCA Board of Directors Media front pages and TV screens have recently been filled with the kidnapping of Americans and a Canadian Christian missionary by a Haitian gang which is asking $1,000,000 per man, woman, or child to release them. This is an ongoing and particularly heart-rendering…

By Richard Seifman, UNA-NCA Board of Directors Paraphrasing Tina Turner’s great song about love and secondhand emotions some would ask what does the UN General Assembly have anything to make things better? Isn’t it a secondhand gabfest? The answer is “No”: it has influence and impact. Here’s why: Global Issues Awareness: If nothing…

by Katherine Marshall & Richard Seifman, UNA-NCA Board Members The unfolding tragedies we are currently witnessing in Afghanistan and Haiti will occupy scholars and pundits for generations. They are very different in nature, far apart in space and culture; one is deeply man-made, the other most recently triggered by an “act of God”, yet the two tragedies share some common themes. Most troubling is the undeniably dreadful governance and extreme fragility, driven by what seems an ominously cyclical force. In both, the United States has engaged deeply, with questionable benefits and effectiveness. …

By Sarah Basham, GCDC Program Assistant Economic strength has historically been the most common indicator for the divide between the Global North and the Global South, between developed and developing countries, and the givers and recipients of development support. In the latter half of the 20th century, the Development Assistance…

By Willow Newcomb, GCDC Program Analyst COVID-19’s Impact on Globalization COVID-19 restructured the international architecture of economic globalization, highlighting the fragility of modern systems of exchange. Within the first months of 2020, the pandemic induced the steepest decline of international exchange in modern history, impacting trade, international travel, and foreign direct investment (FDI). Exempting…

By Natalia de Gravalles, UNA-NCA Human Rights Committee Member Download the complete research paper here. The majority of unaccompanied minors entering the EU are within less than two years of their eighteenth birthdays when they cross the border. Thousands more enter at younger ages, but reach adulthood on Member…