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19 Feb 2015 4 minute read

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‘The parents need certainty and they need proof’

Jen Wilton reports from Geneva, where the UN has been grilling Mexico over its handling of 43 missing...

11 Dec 2014 3 minute read

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The business of human rights

If people are to be put above profit, we need to rethink our economic model, says Amit Singh.

16 Apr 2014 3 minute read

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Happy Thingyan Water Festival for Rohingyas? Like hell

One Western aid worker is frustrated and sickened by what’s going on in Burma.

1 Dec 2013 7 minute read

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Is it time to junk the UN Security Council?

Lecturer and writer Phil Leech and researcher Richard Gowan go head to head.

8 Oct 2013 2 minute read

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Moving beyond the Millennium Development Goals

Sarah Edwards on why the new framework for international development could be a lost opportunity to tackle...

4 Oct 2013 3 minute read

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Making migration work in an unfriendly neighbourhood

Michele LeVoy puts forward the case for rethinking migration in Europe to ensure equal rights and dignity for...

Haiti: mistakes plus negligence equals death

4 Jun 2013 4 minute read

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Haiti: mistakes plus negligence equals death

Where is the urgency in helping the poor and sick, like Baby Willgesta? asks Sokari Ekine.

In Israel it’s business as usual, Obama or not

8 Nov 2012 3 minute read

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In Israel it’s business as usual, Obama or not

Netanyahu won’t find any serious opposition in the re-elected US president, says Frank Barat.

16 Mar 2012 3 minute read

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‘Hands off Sri Lanka!’

Peaceful protesters demand the chance to rebuild their country without interference from the West. Lasanda...

22 Feb 2012 10 minute read

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UN ‘travesty’: resolutions of mass destruction - Part 2

How has the corporate press reacted to the fighting in Syria?

20 Feb 2012 7 minute read

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UN ‘travesty’: resolutions of mass destruction (Part 1)

Why haven’t our leaders, itching to get the UN security council to act on Syria, learnt the lessons of UN intervention in...

1 Dec 2011 1 minute read

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Book review: Who Killed Hammarskjöld?

Fifty years after the UN Secretary-General's death, are we any closer to the truth?

28 Sep 2011 3 minute read

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Time for a Palestinian Spring

When Mahmoud Abbas submitted Palestine's bid for UN membership, he reminded us of just how much the country stands to gain,...

9 May 2011 2 minute read

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Guatemala gets a green card

The UN recognizes Guatemalan efforts to preserve its woodlands.

28 Apr 2011 2 minute read

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The shame of Camp Ashraf

British MPs accuse Iraqi PM of ‘Gestapo-style massacre’.

17 Jan 2011 3 minute read

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An important asset

Sulakshana Gupta reveals five reasons why Sierra Leone matters to the UN.

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