Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the COP30 UN climate change conference in Brazil. Can they all be heard?
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A comprehensive study of recent civil wars highlights the role women can play in sustainable peace processes.
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
Some observers will be sceptical about whether the court’s verdict will have any impact.
This legal analysis lists the atrocities committed by Israel in great detail.
The US president had already severely criticised the UN in his speech to the general assembly.
Energy stress is a significantly bigger problem for Indigenous households. Indigenous communities also need a genuine say on renewable or mineral projects on their land.
The US president spoke for nearly four times his allotted time limit mixing America first meesages with severe criticism of the UN and many member states.
Palestinian-American historian Maha Nassar traces the history of Palestinian efforts to build an independent state. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
If the UN security council won’t act and states including the US and UK continue to support Israel, this report is unlikely to change anything.
Protesters, activists and international law are doing their job, but only political action can end a genocide.
Recognising Palestinian statehood is an important step, but without a formal political process, remains largely a symbolic gesture.
UN special rapporteurs provide pro bono advice and expertise on vital latters of international law.
The talks in Geneva may be the world’s last chance to agree a strong treaty to tackle plastic pollution, scientists warn.
Hong Kong is marking five years of life under China’s national security law – opposition parties have disbanded, while democracy activists remain in jail or exile.
The UN Security Council veto makes it virtually impossible to uphold its own charter when it comes to acts of aggression such as the bombing of Iran.
A shaky truce is still in place in Lebanon. But the country remains on a tenuous footing with Israeli forces in the country’s south and Hezbollah refusing to lay down arms.
More people will be going to the Moon in coming years, and the way current legal frameworks are written could lead to conflict.
Drawing on her personal experience at the Hague, Gretchen Shirm’s novel Out of the Woods confronts the issues of murder and displacement, cruelty and loss.
The second world war marked a turning point in the history of childhood. To train young people to build peace, authorities reinvested in schools and introduced new pedagogies.
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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, The University of Western Australia
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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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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Practice in Climate Policy, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, The Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of International Affairs, Penn State