Video: “My Country is the World”

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

“My Country is the World” is a forthcoming documentary, which tells the extraordinary story of how Garry Davis, Danny Kaye’s Broadway understudy, became World Citizen #1 – a song and dance man on a mission to save the world.   The documentary presents the dramatic story of the first person …

U.N.’s Top Posts Remain a Boy’s Club

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

By Thalif Deen   UNITED NATIONS, Oct 8 2013 (IPS) – Despite adopting scores of pious resolutions on gender empowerment over the last 67 years, the 193-member General Assembly has failed to practice in its own backyard what it has vigourously preached to the outside world. So far, the U.N’s …