We have seen the social contract between state and citizen morph into a contract between state and private finance.

The final draft of a new international crimes against humanity treaty has dropped an outdated definition of gender,...

Against conservative myths about the ‘natural family’, a new UN Women report shows how families are becoming more...

Countries must advance UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to the "next level", Buenos Aires summit told. Español.

As the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking...

When human rights gained recognition the dominant power was the state relative to the individual and citizen. Now...

(Or, why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered?) There is a genocide happening before our eyes. If...

Diplomatic activity has increased. But how serious are their efforts? Will they achieve anything?

A NOREF policy brief providing a series of recommendations for the development of a peacemkaing strategy for Syria,...

On too many issues of global concern, the United Nations faces gridlock. The Security Council, embodying as it does...

As governments are so infrequently held accountable for their actions, is there any reason why they wouldn't try and...

Ten years ago today in Baghdad a terror attack blasted apart the UN headquarters in Iraq... At the moment of the...

The author who has been involved in UN electoral missions all over the world, met up with a group of colleagues in...

We lead this week with exciting news of a special preview of "The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War...

It gives me great pleasure to lead our report this week with news of the world premiere of "The Exile Nation...

Charles Shaw is on the road this week, working on the Unheard Voices Project, so I have the honor of leading the...