GCTV explores and covers diverse world issues such as hunger, poverty, security, economic development, energy, world health, migration, war, human rights, tolerance and international trade.
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Dr. Padmini (Mini) Murthy, Secretary General of the Medical Women International Association to the United Nations, highlights the association’s efforts to empower women and ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages, as well as achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. January 25, 2020
Vinícius Pinheiro, Director of the International Labor Organization's Latin American and Caribbean Region, focues on the four pillars of ILO, the Decent Work Agenda and major issues affecting the LAC Region, such as climate change, income inequality and empowering women. February 7, 2020.
Patrick Sciarratta, President of the Vinculum Foundation, describes his foundation, role of the World Development Foundation and UNESCOs new book: Journalism, Fake News, and Disinformation. January 25, 2020
Mark Newhouse, who serves as President of the Ocean Sanctuary Alliance and Palau's Deputy Ambassador for Oceans and Seas, highlights the major environmental problems that are adversely affecting the oceans. January 28, 2020.
Fannie M. Munlin, Chair of the UN's NGO/DPI Executive Committee, and the Main representative for the National Council of Negro Women at the UN, identifies the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) at the UN to confront the climate change crisis, reduce nuclear arms and empower women and girls.
Ambassador Diego Arria, diplomat and former Venezuelan Permanent Representative to the UN from 1991-93, discusses how the UN Security Council dealt with the Balkan War and the massacres at Srebrenica, as well as the Arria Formula, an informal arrangement that allows the SC greater flexibility to be briefed about international peace and security issues. January 27, 2020
Chris Painter, a globally recognized leader and expert on cyber policy, focuses on the importance of cyber diplomacy and combatting cybercrimes, as well as other major cyber threats confronting the US and the world. January 24, 2020
Kris O'Daniel, a native of Denmark, is an environmentalist, dairy scientist, journalist and expert on climate change and clean energy who describes the importance of UN climate conferences and the critical role that cities will play in combatting climate change. November 11, 2019
Tom Blatner, Co-founder and President of the Family Success Institute, focuses on the prospect of a Sixth Extinction caused by the climate change crisis that could potentially destroy most living organisms on planet Earth. October 28, 2019
Peter Yarrow, of the legendary "Peter, Paul and Mary," discusses the role of folk music to promote human and civil rights.
Steve Schlesinger, a Fellow at the Century Foundation in New York City and author of "Act of Creation: Founding of the United Nations," illustrates how the Trump Administration has weakened both the UN and the US by its lack of involvement in critical agencies and agreements dealing with climate change and human rights.
Ms. Alayne Frankson, Executive Director of the United Nations Office of Administration of Justice, highlights how the UN's internal justice system has contributed to improving staff/management relations, which could even be a model for other private sector businesses and public agencies. October 25, 2019
Liz Karan, Project Director of Protecting Ocean Life on the High Seas with the Pew Charitable Trusts, focuses on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Robert Mardini, Permanent Observer of the International Committee of the Red Cross at the UN, describes the work of the IRC and the Red Crescent in dealing with humanitarian crises in Yemen, Syria and the Ebola virus, while stressing the importance of the Geneva Conventions. October 23, 2019
Chuck Stetson, CEO of the Stetson Family Office Coalition for Better Health at Lower Cost, is working to advance the United Nation's 2030 Development Agenda, especially Sustainable Development Goal 3 to promote good health and well-being for all. October 20, 2019
Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, describes major issues confronting the world body and how various secretaries-general, Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon and Antonio Guterres, brought diverse skills to the job as head of the UN. October 18, 2019
Nancy Prager-Kamel, Co-Founder and CEO of Strategic Expansion Solutions, as well as Chair of the Board of the Association of Foreign Correspondents-USA, discusses a potpourri of topics ranging from assaults on the media to human trafficking. October 20, 2019
Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute discusses how the 15,000 nuclear weapons in nine countries have de-stabilized the world and what one group, United Religions International, is doing to promote a reduction or elimination of these devastating weapons that can destroy the planet. October 18, 2019
Annika Savill, Executive Head of the UN Democracy Fund, explains the Democracy Fund's initiatives to promote democratic institutions and how democracy is under siege in many areas of the world. September 16, 2019
John Burroughs, Executive Director of the New York-based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy & Director of UN Office of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, discusses a recent UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons. September 16, 2019
