Haiti will be able to emerge from the crisis it is in if it has a strong public administration and co-ordinated international aid from countries that respect human rights.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
We speak with Hilal Elver, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and current University of California professor about the looming famine in Gaza after months of Israeli attacks.
Can a multinational security mission provide Haiti with a stable future? Not without sustained funding for after the troops leave.
Subnational authorities are leading the charge on a just transition and dealing with climate change impacts. It is time for this key role to be reflected in international climate negotiations.
A UN meeting this week considered a motion on a suite of technologies known as ‘solar radiation modification’, but no consensus could be reached on the controversial topic.
Africa needs to advocate more aggressively for its own interests when it comes to negotiating debt terms.
Extractive mining disrupts the balance of the planet’s ecosystems and is set to rise. Could urban mining or degrowth help curb unsustainable practices?
Nature knows no borders. While decline of threatened migratory animals is alarming, there are reasons to be optimistic about international conservation efforts.
A selection of analysis from our coverage of the war in Gaza over the past fortnight.
Camps are dynamic, culturally significant spaces. We propose the significance of these cultural practices may provide an alternative pathway to protection.
While the conflict between Hamas and Israel is unique, the case of South Africa’s border war – and subsequent fall of apartheid – might offer lessons that apply to the Middle East.
Recent moves to cut UNRWA’s funding are not the first time the UN agency has come under threat.
Patients with kidney failure need regular dialysis treatments to survive. However, the equipment, supplies and medical staff needed for dialysis have been largely destroyed by the assault on Gaza.
Much of the world already recognises Palestinian statehood. But recognition by the US and UK would be a hugely important decision.
Seventy five years after the creation of the UDHR, the world is facing major human rights challenges again.
Governments all over the world are propping up overfishing. Now scientists have penned an open letter calling on trade ministers to implement stricter regulations against harmful fisheries subsidies.
The US is among more than a dozen countries to freeze funding to UN agency providing aid to displaced Gazans over allegations of complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.
A changing world order and global battles for power will derail the quest for peace in Gaza and the Middle East.
The recent ruling by the International Court of Justice means Canada could be guilty of supporting genocide in Gaza by cutting aid funding and continuing military exports to Israel.
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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