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For our Global Societies project, reporters around the world will be writing about societal problems, sustainability and development in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. The series will include features, analyses, photo essays, videos and podcasts looking behind the curtain of globalization. The project is generously funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Global Societies - DER SPIEGEL

U.S. “leadership” is a favorite trope of the foreign policy establishment. It’s outdated and dangerous. NYT Opinion

CNN's Fareed Zakaria takes a look at how the coronavirus pandemic has worsened inequality globally and in the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfHhpyuXV5Y

York University is hosting the Sustainable and Inclusive Internationalization Virtual Conference, co-organized by York International, the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education Towards Sustainability and international partners, from January 20th to 22nd, 2021. The Conference will bring together scholars, international mobility professionals and practitioners, policymakers, sustainability experts and other stakeholders to discuss the evolving status of international mobility in higher education in Canada and globally, critically reflect on where we are now, and to collectively build a future vision of international mobility that is inclusive, innovative and responsive to the global sustainability challenges of our times. https://yorkinternational.yorku.ca/sustainable-on-the-go-conference/

CARICOM Chair, PM Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados being interviewed by Christiane Amanpour on CNNi, 29 April 2020, on Barbados' and CARICOM's responses to COVID-19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtPpDH-QIvs

The critic and author tells Amil Niazi why so many young people are burning out – and what we can do to fix it The Guardian

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer, the court announced. She was 87. Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and in recent years served as the most senior member of the court's liberal wing, consistently delivering progressive votes on the most divisive social issues of the day, including abortion rights, same-sex marriage, voting rights, immigration, health care and affirmative action. CNN

We are proud to announce that Augie Gallego, Chair of the Board of the Global Citizenship Alliance, is one of the recipients of the 2020 Leadership Award of The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Another recipient is E. Ann McGee, President Emerita of Seminole State College of Florida, a long-time partner institution of the Alliance. Eduardo Padrón, President Emeritus of Miami Dade College (MDC) received the AACC Harry S. Truman Award. Together with Augie Gallego, he is one of the founding fathers of our program and MDC has been sending students to the Alliance ever since, Congratulations to all honorees! For more information about the 2020 AACC awards, please see the following article in Community College Daily. Due to the pandemic, this year’s recipients were honored during a special virtual presentation. The recording of this event is posted on AACC's website.

The Global Citizenship Alliance is proud to announce that Dr. Reza Fakhari was elected as Chairman of Amnesty International USA Board of Directors Read more Reza also serves as the Alliance's Secretary of the Board of Directors. Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization that works to demand human rights for all – no matter who or where they are. As the world’s largest grassroots human rights organization, with seven million members spanning more than 150 countries and territories globally, it works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth, and dignity are denied. Amnesty is a democratically governed, grassroots membership organization, which means that the members vote on key policy issues and elect the Board of Directors. Amnesty International has a uniquely effective strategy for protecting human rights that uses a three-pronged approach: It conducts research to uncover human rights abuses and document patterns; it uses this research to educate the public and equip activists to demand change; and it mobilizes grassroots activists to advocate for human rights in the U.S. and around the world. As the largest country section of Amnesty International, with 221,214 supporters, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is part of a global movement of millions dedicated to pushing back against injustice to make the change that we all deserve to see – now and in the future.

Luca Neves was born in Rome and has always lived there, but for 12 years he has been undocumented, trapped outside hardline migration laws The Guardian