By Simone Galimberti* The international community commemorates World Day Against Child Labour on June 12 KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jun 11 2021 (IPS) – Among the many daunting issues leaders of the G7 will have to discuss in their upcoming summit in… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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.… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan(*) – Democracy Now! You know the United States is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic when the pace of mass shootings gets back to “normal.” As of June 2nd, there were 244 mass shootings in… Continue Reading
By Anthony Idowu Ajayi * – The Conversation The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has the highest rate of child marriage, with… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
Editorial The rise to prominence of the Brothers of Italy party and its abrasive leader, Giorgia Meloni, is a disturbing development By the turbulent standards of Italian politics, it has been a relatively stable spring. The country’s new technocrat prime… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
By Wen Stephenson* – The Nation A conversation with Andreas Malm about his new book, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Andreas Malm, a historian and scholar of human ecology at Lund University in Sweden, may… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman * – Democracy Now! Guest: Elizabeth Hinton, associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and professor of law at Yale Law School. Her new book, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police… Continue Reading
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat * – The Washington Post The past few weeks have left us more hopeless than ever Over the past two weeks, watching the escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories from my home in… Continue Reading
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies (*) – CODEPINK The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza. Much of the world is also shocked by the… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute. What else could billions of American tax dollars buy instead of innocent deaths? At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel… Continue Reading
Opinion, by Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian Thanks in part to a global focus more intense than on any other conflict, western attitudes to the Middle East may be shifting It’s not over, because it’s never over. But there is… Continue Reading
By María Martín |Carlos E. Cué – El País Morocco has resumed control of the border with the North African city after receiving public and private calls from the EU and foreign ministries across Europe, but hundreds of minors remain… Continue Reading
Opinion, by Alon Ben-Meir * NEW YORK, May 20 2021 (IPS) – Regardless of how the current and future violent conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem will end, there will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace unless East Jerusalem becomes… Continue Reading
By Sebastian Strangio* – The Diplomat Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. will “continue to promote accountability for those responsible for the coup.” The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada have all imposed additional sanctions on Myanmar’s… Continue Reading
By Paul Rogers* – OpenDemocracy Israel is the most powerful state in the Middle East. Its military forces may not match the likes of Egypt or Turkey in numbers, but the might of its training, equipment, technologies and nuclear weapons… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* Escalated hostilities in the Gaza Strip have resulted in heavy casualties and large-scale displacement. More than 50 children have been killed in the current crisis in the Middle East, a senior UN official, said May 16. UNITED… Continue Reading
