Editorial – The Guardian People are starving in the Tigray region. The culprit is the devastating war In the early 1980s, as a terrible famine claimed between 400,000 and 1 million lives in Ethiopia, the international community responded to what was widely misunderstood and…
By ReliefWeb* As of April, 732,000 persons were displaced in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Niassa, Sofala and Zambezia as a result of violence and insecurity in Cabo Delgado. As of June, some 70,000 people from Palma were forcibly displaced in the aftermath of…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Yet another ceasefire like so many others before it, in Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine; yet another death count for the archives of oblivion; yet another occasion to ease the conscience of the international community, especially in North…
By Tommy Walker – Voice of America MAE SOT, THAILAND – When Myanmar’s military shocked the world by announcing a coup earlier this year, many people inside the country were stunned at the news. After decades under military rule…
By Josh Collins – Organization for World Peace (*) A group of U.S. Senators have called on President Joe Biden to take “immediate and decisive action” in ending the Saudi Arabian blockade of essential items such as food, medicine, and fuel meant to aid Yemen. The conflict has…
By Al Jazeera UN says people fleeing military’s ‘brutal, indiscriminate attacks’ in eastern Kayah are in dire need of food and water. A United Nations rights expert has warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” in eastern Myanmar after “brutal, indiscriminate…
Editorial The ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu, if it occurs, will be an opportunity. But Naftali Bennett’s government will struggle to build the new politics the nation badly needs There were 38 minutes left when eight very disparate Israeli opposition parties announced, just…
By ReliefWeb* Download document (PDF | 785.39 KB) Summary The recent violent end of the ceasefire in Western Sahara means the EU and the UN should pay renewed attention to resolving the longstanding conflict between the native Sahrawis and Morocco. Various peace-making efforts…
By Journalists from The Guardian* Dozens of grassroots people’s defence forces have emerged to take on brutal military Myanmar is on the verge of a new civil war, a spokesperson for the country’s parallel government has warned, as communities increasingly take up arms to…
By Maryam Jamshidi* – Boston Review The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on In an article published last winter in the Harvard International Law Journal, legal scholar Naz…
