One of the great mug’s games of all time takes place every day at a place insiders call Turtle Bay along the East River in Manhattan. It is the place where international bureaucrats cajole and even coerce governments into telling the rest of us how to live our lives. One would think the place would be a beacon of democracy, transparency, and dialogue. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Earlier this week the United Nations convened a High Level Meeting on youth. This culminates a Year of Youth, which began last August with a conference in Leon, Mexico and will end August 12 with an International Day of Youth. Any time the U.N. announces a “year of” – well – anything, one ought to grab the kids, drain the bank account, and catch the first train out of town.
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