Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN Under Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, in her office in the Secretariat building, New York, December 2019. DiCarlo, who is from Rhode Island in the United States, is the first person to lead the new department. JOE PENNEY
David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, addressing the Human Rights Council, June 17, 2015, Geneva. He has written a new book on the global struggle to wrestle with the power of the Internet. JEAN-MARC FERRE/UN PHOTO
A participant at the 14th annual International Human Rights Summit of Youth for Human Rights, held at the UN on Aug. 25, 2017 and organized by Cambodia and Panama. As the world’s youth population surges, the UN is paying more attention to young people’s needs, but the author writes that the strategies could be more “gender sensitive.”
