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Winnie Byanyima

Winnie Byanyima

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Winnie Byanyima is Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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  1. How to Protect the World from the Next Pandemic
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    How to Protect the World from the Next Pandemic

    May 29, 2024 Winnie Byanyima & Joseph E. Stiglitz envision a global accord that applies the lessons of past health crises and includes binding commitments.

  2. Break the Vaccine Monopolies Now
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    Break the Vaccine Monopolies Now

    Dec 27, 2021 Winnie Byanyima argues that developing countries must have the right to manufacture their own reliable supply of doses.

  3. The G7 Must Act to Vaccinate the World
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    The G7 Must Act to Vaccinate the World

    Apr 15, 2021 Gordon Brown, et al. call on rich-country leaders to finance equitable global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

  4. Africa Can’t Afford COVID-19 Tradeoffs
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    Africa Can’t Afford COVID-19 Tradeoffs

    Jul 13, 2020 Abdourahmane Diallo, et al. warn that efforts to contain the coronavirus must not undermine the fight against other killer diseases.

  5. Globalization 4.0 for Whom?
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    Globalization 4.0 for Whom?

    Dec 19, 2018 Winnie Byanyima calls on the business and political elites gathering in Davos to abandon neoliberalism once and for all.

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    What African Electrification Requires

    Fatih Birol & Alain Ebobissé highlight the need for greater private-sector participation to boost investments in power grids.
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    How World Order Changes

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    World order is a matter of degree: it varies over time, depending on technological, political, social, and ideological factors that can affect the global distribution of power and influence norms. It can be radically altered both by broader historical trends and by a single major power's blunders.

    examines the role of evolving power dynamics and norms in bringing about stable arrangements among states.
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    Israel’s Blind Spot

    Ian Buruma explains the lack of sympathy, even among the country’s many anti-war protesters, for Palestinian suffering.
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    Will AI Close or Widen the Development Gap?

    Shamika Sirimanne & Xiaolan Fu call for multilateral action and grassroots pressure to ensure that the technology serves all countries.
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    Don’t Let Governments Break Encryption

    Jessica Dickinson Goodman & Ezequiel Passeron Kitroser urge citizens and lawmakers to fight for the privacy that previous generations took for granted.
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    Philanthropy in an Era of Declining Development Aid

    William Moore urges practitioners and policymakers to focus on already proven, scalable solutions.
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    South Africa’s Wrestling Match With Trump

    Adekeye Adebajo considers whether the current G20 president can still advance its agenda in the face of US obstruction.
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    How Aristotle Can Save Us

    Antara Haldar touts a conception of society in which politics and education cultivate the virtue of its members.
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    Trump vs. Europe

    Zaki Laïdi

    Donald Trump has left no doubt that he wants to build an authoritarian, illiberal world order based on traditional spheres of influence and agreements with other illiberal leaders. The only role that the European Union plays in his script is an obstacle that must be pushed aside.

    warns that the European Union has no place in Donald Trump’s illiberal worldview.

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