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Feb 2024

25m 42s

Why we need the UN

Financial Times

About this episode

Gideon talks to Mark Malloch-Brown, former deputy secretary-general of the UN and president of the Open Society Foundations, about the role of the United Nations. While it sometimes struggles to make an impact on matters of global security, it plays a unique and often unrecognised role in shaping policy on migration, refugees and climate. Clip: The Guardian

ICJ’s Israel judgment seeks to restore rule of law to a brutal conflict

Head of UN agency for Palestinians defies Israeli calls to quit

A ‘multipolar’ world defies the ‘rules-based’ order

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