Is the UN system still relevant?
We are failing every day to force a ceasefire and stop the genocide. But failure is not an option. We must refocus this moment.
We are failing every day to force a ceasefire and stop the genocide. But failure is not an option. We must refocus this moment.
Kenya’s plan to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti undermine's the country's fragile sovereignty.
Israel’s assault on Gaza has shown, once again, that the UN Security Council is ineffective when it comes to preventing wars and protecting the human rights of all people.
Imagining and demanding the decolonization of Palestine means acting to decolonize all the colonial states in the world, from Brazil to Australia, including the USA and Chile.
Lest the WHO forget, containing infectious diseases is less about culture than the racist structure of international relations that condemns countries like Haiti to cycles of epidemics.
More than 500 indigenous and farmer organizations across the continents have raised their voices to expose the UN’s Food Systems Summit as only advocating one food system—so they’re being silenced.
Women say it is their turn to lead the United Nations. But can a female head of the UN change the organization’s work culture and correct the power imbalances among UN member states?
The global public health industry is complicit in the reproduction of “the African tragedy.”
The Indian activist ES Reddy led the fight against South African apartheid at the UN. More importantly, his life reflected the best of left internationalism.
In 1969, the OAU proposed its own refugee convention to reflect African values. Why did it not become policy across the continent?
For all the PR, Kenya does not pose a serious threat to the five veto-holding permanent members on the UN Security Council.
The Liberian academic and writer talks about citizenship, belonging, and what unites her fragmented nation.
Revisiting the clash of the American-born UN diplomat Ralph Bunche and Patrice Lumumba in 1960 over the terms and timeliness of African colonies' independence from their European masters.
Revisiting the events that led to the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld, a key UN official in the decolonization of Africa during the Cold War.
Scandals like the one at More Than Me—the US charity that failed to protect school girls in its care from rape by staff—are common in even the most elite aid organizations.
In pictures: These are the faces of the Caravana 43 for the disappeared students of Ayotzinapa, Mexico.
If market-focused empowerment becomes the norm in development, who will want to learn about politics or find out why their countries are poor in the first place?
A government proposal to outlaw violence by parents against their children exposes how widely acceptable the practice is in South Africa.
The campaign is accompanied by print ads featuring celebrities in coffins to represent their digital deaths. Can this stop, please?