The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are politicians listening?
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The government in place in Kabul, which has been in charge of the whole of Afghanistan since August 2021, is still not recognised. This in no way improves the lot of Afghan women in the country.
UN peacekeeping missions will be revamped to better respond to the realities on the ground where they are deployed.
Private conservation groups channel huge sums of money to parks and protected areas around the world, but often have failed to protect basic rights of Indigenous people living on those lands.
Taking the right to science seriously can help spark a new ethos of curiosity-driven research for the planet.
For many of Lebanon’s 1.5 million Syrian refugees, temporary crossing back into their war-torn homeland was a risk they felt they needed to take.
Australia shouldn’t just align with so-called ‘like-minded partners’ on sanctioning other countries, but rather follow core principles of international law.
Arts-based research methods are bringing fresh perspectives as the world seeks much-needed solutions to plastic pollution.
The new global plastics treaty needs to tackle inequalities that surround how plastics are produced, handled, collected or not, and the level of care taken to deal with them.
So many complicated climate acronyms render meaningless to the general public – here’s a guide to some of the jargon.
The past few years have been among the most violent of any time since the second world war.
A deep dive into 866 public companies and 1,413 carbon projects reveals some twists in who relies on cheap offsets and who chooses to cut their own emissions instead.
Activists from abroad living in Canada have a broad vision and great interest in tangibly improving the lives of all people living in ongoing colonial and other conflict.
Climate scientists call for global leaders to double down on efforts to cut emissions with their full attention and unwavering commitment at the UN’s climate summit, Cop29.
A peace deal on the conflict in south Lebanon is reportedly close.
Targets to restore global biodiversity were not accompanied by concrete plans for action or the financial commitments that many at Cop16 were hoping for.
Israel has been at loggerheads with the UN for years.
Why Israel has been feuding with the United Nations for years.
There’s a growing clamour for Israel to be suspended from the UN over its banning of Unrwa.
Millions of Palestinian refugees are set to suffer as a result of banning the UN agency, piling pressure on the US, which has warned of ‘consequences.’
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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