The Third International Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons (HINW) opens in Vienna today, with arguments for humanitarian disarmament growing in strength. This time the UK and the US will attend. What will be the likely outcome?
Gambia rushed through its new criminal code in relative secrecy. With political opposition and activist groups thwarted, the international community has a responsibility to speak out.
The hype surrounding the innovation society obscures crucial issues of politics and power.
If the recent Occupy-type social explosions are to seek transformative action beyond occupied squares, they should look at the history of the World Social Forum, with its valuable paths to transnational connectivity.
Why has the response to Ebola been so weak in Sierra Leone and Liberia? The relationship between elite wealth and foreign aid means that the powers that be in Monrovia and Freetown are in no hurry to end the global media obsession with the Ebola crisis.
Erdogan’s controversial comments calling gender equality into question come at a time when women’s issues have become connected to the very idea of the Turkish state and civilisational values.
Is RT (formerly Russia Today) really as dangerous or as effective as its critics claim?
Russians regularly lose their savings in the pyramid schemes flourishing throughout the country. And the government is doing – can do – nothing about them.
Political and popular discussions about strategies to confront ISIS are doing women in Iraq and Syria a disservice, and playing into the hands of ISIS.
Orthodox ideology is being rushed into the Russian school curriculum – in the interests of nationalism.
A single incident in the air war against the Islamic State offers a lesson in its character.
Viktor Orban, like European populists in general, is neither of the right nor the left. He is a child of both.
