"Dispatches from Europe" Blog Contest
Are you planning on traveleling to the European Union this summer? Submit a post to be featured on our Across the Pond blog and win prizes!
Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic Blogs
The third Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic class traveled to the Arctic Circle in summer 2014. Check out their blog entries from this summer!
Ringing the Bells at the Banner of Peace
Landscape Architecture Doctoral candidate Caroline Wisler reflects on her travels to Bulgaria.
Zach Grotovsky's Summer 2013: 14 Cities, 15 Weeks, One Long Adventure
University of Illinois graduate student in Germanic Literatures and Languages Zach Grotovsky documents his travels throughout Eastern Europe in the summer of 2013.
Peaceful Opposition in Izmir
MAEUS student Levi Armlovich describes his experiences with the protests in Izmir, Turkey.
Friday, March 2, 2012
The European Union’s Involvement at the United Nations 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
by Alexandra Lively
Ambassadors, Ministers, and Heads of Government have gathered at the United Nations 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN Headquarters in New York to discuss this year’s priority theme: The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have sent delegates to the Session that lasts from February 27 – March 9, 2012, to issue statements, have general...