Helen Clark

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Helen Clark, a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, is a former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.

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Dispelling the Myths About Sexuality Education
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Dispelling the Myths About Sexuality Education

Oct 4, 2019 Helen Clark urges global leaders to emphasize the benefits of spreading potentially life-saving knowledge.

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Bringing Gender Equality to Global Public Health
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Bringing Gender Equality to Global Public Health

May 8, 2018 Helen Clark & Sania Nishtar share the findings of a new report that documents how major health organizations leave women behind.

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Leadership for Sustainability

Leadership for Sustainability

Jan 21, 2016 Helen Clark highlights the challenges facing the world in implementing its development agenda.

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Leave No Refugee Behind

Leave No Refugee Behind

Jan 11, 2016 Helen Clark & Filippo Grandi urge the international community to shift from humanitarian aid to development assistance.

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Disaster and Development
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Disaster and Development

Dec 30, 2014 Helen Clark urges countries to invest in preparedness as part of a broad, national response to disaster risk.

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The West’s Arrested Social Development

Helmut K. Anheier

In 1995, the sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf argued that developed countries’ “overriding task” for the subsequent decade was to "square the circle of wealth creation, social cohesion, and political freedom.” More than two decades later, most have not even attempted that feat.

Impeachment and the Wider World

Carl Bildt

As with the proceedings against former US Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump is ultimately a domestic political issue that will be decided in the US Congress. But, unlike those earlier cases, the Ukraine scandal threatens to jam up the entire machinery of US foreign policy.