How can we address the global threat to women's rights with no space for girls’ - or even women’s - voices at the UN? How will we design a post-2015 framework that responds to the needs of the most marginalized?
The idea of "political correctness" is, at the best of times, a vacuous one to invoke in public debate or social commentary.
OSCE mediators urge an end to attacks after a month in which the 20-year-old ceasefire was broken in thousands of incidents.
The past four World Conferences on Women have galvanized activism and strengthened women's movement building. Now is the time to assess and rethink the decision not to convene a 5th global gathering of women.
Out of all big industries making billions in profit, the pharmaceutical is probably the most ethically questionable.
The last Minsk agreement on eastern Ukraine failed to bring peace. The latest looks similar—but the context has changed.
The Syrian Arab Army has multiple charities that go house to house looking after its men in uniform.
Those who come after us will wonder at how we were so blinkered, at why we took so long to change.
The key protagonist in channelling bottom-up solidarity proved to be – not for the first time in Greece’s history - the institution of the extended family.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, toasted in the west as a rational thinker disinclined to give in to bombastic rhetoric, has also resorted to Iranophobia.
The ongoing anti-shale gas protests in southern Algeria look increasingly like a head-to-head confrontation between the Algerian government and a well-organised, conscious population.
An interview on the origins of Islamic State and its relationship with regional and global powers.
