The UN’s primary roadmap for operationalising its women, peace and security (WPS) agenda is the 2010 Seven-Point Action Plan on Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding, which specifies concrete commitments for the UN system… 
The Hunter College Model United Nations Team traveled to Quito, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands to take part in the first-ever National Model United Nations conference hosted in Latin America. …
Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Dr. Nancy Foner (Sociology) will serve as president-elect in 2013-14 and president in 2014-2015 of the Eastern Sociological Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in sociological…
Faculty Associate Andrew Polsky authored the following Op Ed for the Oxford University Press’ OUPBlog: We are in the midst of a great Dwight Eisenhower revival. Our 34th president, whose…
Faculty Associates assembled in Roosevelt House’s Four Freedoms Room on January 31st in an event timed to kick off the Spring 2013 semester. Roosevelt House Interim Director Jonathan Fanton introduced…
The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely unsuccessful. Strategies are needed to improve the world’s major…
On December 10, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the cornerstone of the human rights movement. To commemorate the signing, December 10 is now…
David Hawk, Adjunct Professor in the Human Rights Program, appeared on 60 Minutes earlier this week to discuss brutality in North Korea’s Camp 14 secret prison. Watch the full clip, below…
CISC Director and Associate Professor of Geography Bill Solecki and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Senior Research Scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig co-authored a response to today’s New York Times “Room for Debate”…
One-third of humanity: peasant rights in the United Nations The United Nations are moving towards a finalization of a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working…
Roosevelt House, an integral part of Hunter College since 1943, reopened in 2010 as a public policy institute honoring the distinguished legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Its mission is three-fold: to educate students in public policy and human rights, to support faculty research, and to foster creative dialogue.
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