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Published in: 50.50: FeatureAnti-rights groups tried to take over a UN summit. Feminists fought backWomen from the Global South battled for gender equality and climate justice at the UN’s annual Commission on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionYemenis are being starved, and not enough is being done to stop itThroughout Yemen’s brutal war, parties to the conflict have deprived civilians of the food and water they need to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureIran’s leaders ‘are responsible’ for executing 30,000 political prisonersA survivor of the 1988 massacre says he is ready to testify before the UN about the role of Iran’s leaders in the...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionCOVID-19 was a big test for UN migration initiatives. Did they succeed?Migrants working in frontline jobs are twice as likely to contract the coronavirus. They are also less likely to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Twenty-five years after the Srebrenica GenocideAccounting for the missing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond, the right to a family, and the right to know.
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Published in: ourEconomyWhen it comes to development, Public Private Partnerships give us a lot to wonder aboutWe have seen the social contract between state and citizen morph into a contract between state and private finance.
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Published in: 50.50This is how we won a historic victory for women’s and LGBTIQ rights in international lawThe final draft of a new international crimes against humanity treaty has dropped an outdated definition of gender,...
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Published in: 50.50Is the UN taking a position in today’s ‘culture wars’?Against conservative myths about the ‘natural family’, a new UN Women report shows how families are becoming more...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe South-South summit and the urgency of sustainable developmentCountries must advance UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to the "next level", Buenos Aires summit told. Español.
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Published in: 50.50Religious and market fundamentalisms threaten gender equality at UN summitAs the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking...
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Published in: HomeCounterbalancing disproportionate power: a response to John RuggieWhen human rights gained recognition the dominant power was the state relative to the individual and citizen. Now...
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Published in: HomeWhen is a genocide a genocide?(Or, why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered?) There is a genocide happening before our eyes. If...
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Published in: HomeWho, apart from its people, wants peace in Yemen?Diplomatic activity has increased. But how serious are their efforts? Will they achieve anything?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe United Nations and a peace process strategy for SyriaA NOREF policy brief providing a series of recommendations for the development of a peacemkaing strategy for Syria,...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity Council reform: why it matters and why it's not happeningOn too many issues of global concern, the United Nations faces gridlock. The Security Council, embodying as it does...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWill governments ever obey their own law?As governments are so infrequently held accountable for their actions, is there any reason why they wouldn't try and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTen years ago today in Baghdad
Ten years ago today in Baghdad a terror attack blasted apart the UN headquarters in Iraq... At the moment of the...
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Published in: HomeBearing witness to an international community
The author who has been involved in UN electoral missions all over the world, met up with a group of colleagues in...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of March 14th 2011
We lead this week with exciting news of a special preview of "The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of February 7th 2011
It gives me great pleasure to lead our report this week with news of the world premiere of "The Exile Nation...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
