While Russia and Ukraine’s war wages on, previous peace talk discussions didn’t appear to include women. Changing that can make a difference, research shows.
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To his credit, former South African president Thabo Mbeki set up anti-corruption institutions that survived his own efforts to erode them.
Six months into the Ukraine war, around 5000 Ukrainian civilans and 9000 soldiers have died, but the war shows no sign of ending.
India’s international climate pledge could set the tone for other emerging economies for a decade.
A scholar of humanitarianism sums up what she saw on the ground during a five-week research trip to Poznań, Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow and several smaller cities along the Poland-Ukraine border.
DRC has the highest number of allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers – yet no systematic research on the claims of their abandoned children has existed until now.
Rwanda believes DRC continues to provide refuge for those behind the 1994 genocide.
Other recent conflicts that resulted in war crimes allegations help explain how complex it will be to gather evidence of war crimes in Ukraine – and provide answers for families of victims of the war.
It’s more than moral posturing. Resolutions like this have a history of laying the foundation for effective treaties and national laws.
Long considered a frozen conflict, the Western Sahara dispute roared back to life in late 2020, reviving old wounds and inflicting fresh ones.
Protests are likely to continue over the coming months, particularly in the run-up to the Congo presidential elections next year.
The UN has been working for 20 years to increase the number of female peacekeepers – but countries that give their troops to the UN are reluctant to put more women in active combat.
The UN mission is being held responsible for something the Congolese state should be doing.
Myanmar’s military junta is losing some control over the country, but its execution of four high-profile leaders and prisoners sends a warning to Myanmar citizens and the rest of the world.
By late July 2022, monkeypox was present in more than 70 countries with significant spread in certain communities. As a result, the World Health Organization began taking steps to fight the virus.
The so-called post-2020 global biodiversity framework is a nature counterpart to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, and will aim to curb the decline of nature by 2050.
Taiwan’s ambiguous position makes talk of war all the more dangerous
Only 24 countries today totally ban abortion. The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in the US is unlikely to lead other countries to join that list.
Making a safe and healthy work environment a human right is only the first step in ensuring governments protect workers
Widows in Nigeria are still exposed to harmful practices.
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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