The long-standing UN secretary general could have done more to protect the world’s most vulnerable people.
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The UN general assembly meeting brought together many leaders whose countries are locked in conflict.
With Albanese in New York, the US embassy in Canberra – which now has its Trump man in residence – attacked the government’s Digital Duty of Care plans.
At a time when UN peace operations are declining, African organisations are often the first responders to emerging crises.
The UN Security Council calls the shots when it comes to appointing the body’s chief – which means 5 permanent members have an outsized say on the matter.
The resolution, submitted by a group of African states, corrects 450 years of cartographic injustice by recognizing the distortions produced by the Mercator projection.
Exceeding 1.5 C of global warming is a giant warning flag telling us not to give up, but to redouble our efforts to slam on the brakes on climate change.
The Canadian Defence Department’s recent announcement that it’s scaling back peacekeeping missions marks the final step in the triumph of one national peacekeeping mythology over another.
Three economists explore the viability of a UN-backed one-stop licensing ‘hub’ for making essential, often life-saving biotherapeutics and vaccines both affordable and more widely available.
The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she asks why the international community’s response has fallen so short.
The report found evidence of children being deliberately targeted by Israeli Defense Forces. Such acts would amount to war crimes under international law.
What grants influential women visibility and diplomatic status? Women in Diplomacy day on June 24 is an opportunity to consider how female-led efforts are recognised, valued and remembered.
The drop in funding has also led donors to prioritize the trend of using aid to control the movement of people – over their needs.
Efforts to protect land and environmental resources, including fighting climate change, often end up displacing people who have lived in those places for generations.
While some progress has been made since these goals were established in 2017, it is uneven. Only seven of the 26 targets have been broadly met.
As AI models become cheaper and more attractive, they will likely encourage new uses and higher volumes of use – erasing any efficiency gains.
In nations as far apart as Australia, Canada, Indonesia and the UK, this is how a historic court decision could make it easier for unions to go on strike in future.
What’s happening in Afghanistan is not simply gender discrimination; rather, it’s pushing an entire gender out of public systems altogether in a policy of gender apartheid by the ruling Taliban.
Combining more than 15,000 reports from 36 states, researchers estimate that recreational fishing puts $3 billion worth of food on Americans’ tables each year.
Congress has refused to exercise oversight of the Iran war, with Republicans nixing Democrats’ attempts to exercise legislators’ power over military engagements. That’s nothing new.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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PhD candidate in Protection of Civilians, Australian National University
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in History, Hamilton College
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Associate Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor of International Law, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Adelaide University
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Professor of Teaching of History, Wayne State University
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Professor of International Politics, Tufts University
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Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Executive Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center and Senior Fellow of Diplomatic Practice, The Fletcher School, Tufts University