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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Meet the US Youth Observer to the UN
Description: Munira Khalif is the US Youth Observer to the United Nations. This is a position created in partnership between the State Department and the United Nations Association of the United States to help give youth a voice in official and semi-official diplomatic settings. Munira is a student at Harvard, though she is taking some time off to focus on this new role, in which she will serve for a year. And in this conversation Munira discusses her work and what is involved in giving youth a voice at the UN and in diplomatic settings and why she is u...