Women’s civil society advocates were long excluded from the security council. This is changing, but they must be allowed to speak freely.

So long as the ethno-sectarian quota exists, a political class that serves foreign interests will continue to determine Iraq’s political and economic destiny.

Abiy Ahmed has already gone down in history for addressing the pressing demands of the vast majority of Ethiopians. But Abiy Ahmed made three mammoth strategic errors.

What are world leaders doing? Where is the ‘international community’ Yemenis so often appeal to?

Scotland Yard claimed it didn’t receive key evidence about Leave campaigns until September. But the evidence was ready from May. They just didn’t bother to collect it.

How can you explain the fact that respected Italian reporters believe it was basically The Guardian who provoked Brexit? Was Brexit just lost in translation?

Our only answer to self-serving nationalisms of every kind is a popular sovereignty that empowers everyone, collectively, to take control of matters of state, whatever its name.

The first British ban on membership of a far right group appears to be working – but the danger is other far right groups are learning to adapt.

Waste disposal has become a political problem for Russia’s capital, and the authorities are now looking to transfer it to the regions. RU

During a festival celebrating the Goddess who kills a demon menacing Gods, scores of educated Indian women have unmasked their tormentors and sparked a mini-revolution.

Brazil’s bid to host international climate talks in 2019 (COP25) made significant progress, just as the country seems poised to elect extreme right-wing climate change sceptic Jair Bolsonaro. Español

Kate Manne’s “Down Girl” describes the origins of a punitive social system that keeps women in their place by rewarding compliance and punishing resistance.

This year, something has changed about the way we talk about abortion. You can feel it on the street, on Twitter, in the media.... Something has changed, and there’s no turning back. Español