Editorial – The Guardian A marked shift in the pattern of small boat arrivals shows how necessary an evidence-based, multilateral approach is If the tenor of debate about asylum seekers arriving via small boats is somewhat less fevered than in previous Augusts, that is because…
By Jackie Cabasso* A Four-Week Festival of Double Standards NEW YORK (IDN) — The 10th NPT Review Conference didn’t fail because it couldn’t produce a final document. It failed because the nuclear-armed states haven’t made good on their fundamental nuclear disarmament obligation…
By Michelle Bachelet* GENEVA, Aug 26 2022 (IPS) – As you know, after four years as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, my mandate ends next week, on 31 August. The world has changed fundamentally over the course of my mandate.
By Katherine Fung* – Newsweek Former Attorney General Bill Barr painted an unflattering image of former President Donald Trump in a wide-ranging interview this week, describing his former boss as a man who relies on “extortion” and “sabotage” to maintain his grip over the…
By Sania Farooqui NEW DELHI, India, Aug 25 2022 (IPS) – It has been five years since the forced exodus of the Rohingyas from Myanmar, and their plea for justice and accountability continues. On August 25, 2017, “Myanmar military began a sweeping campaign of massacres, rape, and…
By Kenn Orphan* – CounterPunch It has become impossible not to notice the trend. Whether it is banning the word “gay,” or banning books that contain topics related to human sexuality, or the Supreme Court decision to overturn a woman’s federal right to an abortion, the war on…
By Thalif Deen* Controlling the loss and waste of food is a crucial factor in reaching the goal of eradicating hunger in the world UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2022 (IPS) – The ominous warnings keep coming non-stop: some of the world’s developing nations, mostly in Africa and Asia…
by Patrick Cockburn* – CounterPunch There is something hugely hypocritical in the way that American political leaders and media pundits denounce the imprisonment of American citizens abroad, while staying silent about mass incarceration for similar offences in the US…
UN NEWS On Tuesday, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF warned that children in the Horn of Africa and the vast Sahel region “could die in devastating numbers” without urgent intervention and support. In the last five months, the number of people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia without…
Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs* The world is on the edge of nuclear catastrophe in no small part because of the failure of Western political leaders to be forthright about the causes of the escalating global conflicts. The relentless Western narrative that the West is noble while…
