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Elections in Burundi
Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 7:58 am | Rene Wadlow
The violent presidential election in Burundi highlights the need for UN election-monitoring services. On the eve of the July 21st presidential election, Taye-Brook Zerihoun, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs warded that “The grave danger ... More >>
A Time of Departure: Forces that Create Refugees & Migrants
Sunday, 7 June 2015, 1:13 pm | Rene Wadlow
Current refugee-migrant flows (from Burma and Bangladesh toward Thailand and Malaysia and across the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East toward Europe) have highlighted the need to attack the root causes of such migration and refugee flows. ... More >>
Cluster Bombs: Saudi Use, USA Sales, and the Review
Thursday, 7 May 2015, 12:54 pm | Rene Wadlow
Cluster Bombs: Saudi Use, USA Sales, and the Review Conference on their Prohibition Monday, May 4, 2015 René Wadlow, President and a Representative to the United Nations (Geneva) Association of World Citizens More >>
Dangerous Disintegration of Yemen | Rene Wadlow
Thursday, 2 April 2015, 10:17 am | Rene Wadlow
Taking a page from the Soviet script of 1968 Czechoslovakia, Saudi Arabia has come to the fraternal aid of Yemeni President Rabbo Mansour Hadi by starting to bomb Sana and massing 150,000 troops on the frontier and war ships off the coast. On the eve ... More >>
Albert Einstein: Remember Your Humanity and Forget the Rest
Sunday, 15 March 2015, 10:13 am | Rene Wadlow
14 March is the birth anniversary of Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, south Germany, in 1879 and died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955. I was a student at Princeton University from 1953 to 1956, and as I liked to walk in the late afternoon, I would cross Albert ... More >>
UN Human Rights Council Special Session
Wednesday, 3 September 2014, 9:48 am | Rene Wadlow
World Law advanced by the UN Special Session of the Human Rights Council on Human Rights Violations in Iraq By Rene Wadlow 3 September 2014 More >>
Iraq: Yazidis Genocide?
Tuesday, 12 August 2014, 3:23 pm | Rene Wadlow
A mix of US humanitarian air drops of food and water to the stranded displaced people on Mount Sinjar as well as US military air strikes against some of the positions of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has focused international attention ... More >>
Shadow Boxing or Filling an Empty Diplomatic Space?
Tuesday, 5 August 2014, 4:33 pm | Rene Wadlow
Shadow Boxing or Filling an Empty Diplomatic Space? Track II and Security in the Middle East More >>
The Law of the Seize
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 4:52 pm | Rene Wadlow
8 June of each year has been proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as the Day of the Law of the Sea. However, according to my friend John Logue, Director of Villanova University Common Heritage Institute who had participated with me as non-government ... More >>
Ukraine: A Federalist Future?
Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 5:11 pm | Rene Wadlow
Can tensions in Ukraine be lowered without a federalist-constitutional restructuring of the State? On Thursday, 17 April 2014, US Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergy Lavrov, Ukraine's acting Foreign Minister Andriii Deshchytsia, ... More >>
Egypt Death Penalty
Friday, 28 March 2014, 5:04 pm | Rene Wadlow
World Citizens, strongly opposed to the death penalty, question the Egyptian Government's condemnation to death of 528 persons in a short mass trial. In a 26 March 2014 message to the acting President of Egypt and to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, ... More >>
Call for Good-faith Negotiations by All Parties in Syria
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 11:40 am | Rene Wadlow
World Citizens have called for good-faith negotiations among all the parties from the start of the demonstrations in March 2011 which had begun in a spirit of non-violence. Neither the Government nor the oppositions were willing to set an agenda or a timetable ... More >>
Syria : Chemical Weapons and Restraints in War
Saturday, 31 August 2013, 2:47 pm | Rene Wadlow
There was a recent political drawing in the International Herald Tribune which showed high piles of skulls with signs on them which said “Killed by Assads Machine Guns”, “Killed by Assads Tanks” and two men with UN on their coats saying “If they ... More >>
Rene Wadlow: A New Mali Federation?
Monday, 23 April 2012, 11:47 am | Rene Wadlow
A New Mali Federation? By Rene Wadlow Since the fall of northern Mali to the forces of the Tuareg at the end of March 2012, the situation has grown in complexity. The group of young officers, more or less led by Captain Amadou Sanogo, had taken control ... More >>
Is there an Azawad in Mali's Future?
Saturday, 7 April 2012, 11:54 am | Rene Wadlow
With the Fall of Timbukutu, Is there an Azawad in Mali's Future? Rene Wadlow* More >>
Rene Wadlow: World Water Day
Friday, 16 March 2012, 10:06 am | Rene Wadlow
Since 1993, the United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 22 March as World Day for Water. Each year one of the UN agencies involved in water issues takes the lead in promoting World Water Day with a specific focus and a theme. For 2012, it ... More >>
Rene Wadlow: Syria: To Break the Downward Spiral
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 11:14 am | Rene Wadlow
It is necessary to consider what role NGOs might now play in Syria – particularly to support the mediation efforts of former UN secretary-general, Koffi Annan – in order to break what seems to be a continual downward spiral, with real dangers ... More >>
Rene Wadlow: Syria: To Break the Downward Spiral
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 11:13 am | Rene Wadlow
It is necessary to consider what role NGOs might now play in Syria – particularly to support the mediation efforts of former UN secretary-general, Koffi Annan – in order to break what seems to be a continual downward spiral, with real dangers ... More >>
8March :International Day of Women: Women as Peacemakers
Monday, 5 March 2012, 12:20 pm | Rene Wadlow
8 March is the International Day of Women first proposed by Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1911. Zetkin, who had lived some years in Paris and active in women’s movements there ... More >>
Rene Wadlow: Economic Sanctions
Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 12:58 pm | Rene Wadlow
The ongoing UN Security Council discussions concerning sanctions against Syria and greater US and European Union sanctions against Iran have brought to the fore the justice, aims and effectiveness of economic sanctions and the prohibition of arms ... More >>
