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Disinformation in the Super Election Year
The year 2024 seems to be a year of big decisions. The European Parliament elections in June and the US presidential election in November… politics and the media are talking of a showdown betwe...
We Should Aim to be at Peace with Nature, Says David Cooper of UN Convention on Biological Diversity
In a world faced with habitat loss and species extinction, climate change, and pollution, it’s crucial that countries develop their national action plans and create a society that lives in harm...
El Salvador’s Cycles of Violence Through a Teenager’s Eyes
Juanita Goebertus Estrada is the Americas director at Human Rights Watch.
Senegal’s Democracy Passes Crucial Test
The fact that Senegal’s election took place on 24 March was in itself a triumph for civil society. That an opposition candidate, campaigning on an anti-establishment and anti-corruption agenda,...
Civil Registration is Shaping World’s Largest Election Year With 76 Nations Going to the Polls
Over four billion people will take to the polls in 2024 as 76 countries are set to hold elections. In Asia, this includes populous countries such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Ru...
South Asian Network on Human Rights Calls on Bhutan to Free Political Prisoners
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, has called on the Government of Bhutan to release the political prisoners it has detained for decades. SAHR mad...
World’s Democracies Threatened by Disinformation Generated by Artificial Intelligence
Speaking at the third Summit for Democracy in South Korea last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that a malicious “flood” of disinformation is threatening the world’s democr...
Breaking Down Barriers to Women’s Land Rights Starts in Our Homes
At the opening of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on March 11, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Your gathering this year is focused on how tackling ...
Indigenous Women Fight for Their Future, Their Land, Rights & Self-Determination
Throughout history, Indigenous Women have made remarkable contributions to forwarding the aspirations of their communities for self-determination. Amid the compounded burdens they face as Indigen...
Democracy’s Contested Territory
This year more than half the world’s population has the chance to go to the polls. That might make it look like the most democratic year ever, but the reality is more troubling. Too many of tho...
International Women’s Day, 2024Why Legal Equality Is Key to Women’s Economic Rights and Well-Being
THE FOLLOWING OPINION PIECE IS PART OF SERIES TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8.
International Women’s Day, 2024Spare Us the Token Flowers: International Women’s Day is a Call to Action
THE FOLLOWING OPINION PIECE IS PART OF SERIES TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8.
International Women’s Day, 2024Stop Racially-Biased Attention when Dealing with Sexual Harassment of Women of Color
THE FOLLOWING OPINION PIECE IS PART OF SERIES TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8.
International Women’s Day, 2024 In a Fearless Gesture, Woman Police Officer Averts Mob Lynching
THIS FEATURE IS PART OF A SERIES TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8.
International Women’s Day, 2024Investing in Women is More than just Good Economics, it’s Crucial to a Sustainable Society
THE FOLLOWING OPINION PIECE IS PART OF SERIES TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8.
International Women’s Day, 2024International Women’s Day/International Life Day
THE FOLLOWING OPINION PIECE IS PART OF SERIES TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8.
UN Whistle Blowers Fired for Challenging Risky Investment Policies of the Pension Fund
The UN Ethics Office, established in 2006, has promoted an organizational culture in the world body, including integrity, professionalism, respect for diversity and protection for whistle-blowers...
Freedom of Speech Is Silenced in Nicaragua
Almost six years after the outbreak of the April 2018 protests, there are no signs left in Nicaragua of the violence that reigned in those days. There is no graffiti on walls or banners with dema...
International Women’s Day, 2024The Misogynistic Minority
THE FOLLOWING OPINION PIECE IS PART OF SERIES TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8.
International Women’s Day, 2024Progress Hinges on Feminist Leadership
THE FOLLOWING OPINION PIECE IS PART OF SERIES TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8.
International Women’s Day, 2024Support the Women and Girls Fighting for Rights
The writer is UNAIDS Executive Director and United Nations Under-Secretary-General THE FOLLOWING OPINION PIECE IS PART OF SERIES TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8.
Parcels for Prisoners: Exiled Myanmar Activists Keep the Revolutionary Faith
Rangoon Nights is rocking. The bar is on its feet and the cocktail shaker is shaking in abandon as the band Born In Burma starts pumping out its beat. Except we’re not in Rangoon or Burma (offi...
The World Social Forum: The counterweight to the World Economic Forum
This week the 2024 annual meeting of the World Social Forum (WSF) was held in Nepal. There were fifty thousand participants from over 90 countries, exchanging strategies to address the multiple g...
Polycrises are Pushing More Women into Poverty: How can we Help Halt that Trend?
Let’s call her Anita. Four years ago, her life took an unexpected turn when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted everything she knew. As businesses closed and economic uncertainty loomed, Anita, lik...
Yangon—A Junta-Ruled Bubble in a Fragmenting Myanmar
Landing in Rangoon nearly 100 years ago, a young Chilean poet described “a city of blood, dreams, and gold” with “leprous streets”. The flourishing capital of then British-ruled Burma and...
Africa’s Absence as Permanent Member a “Flagrant Injustice,” says UN Chief
As the UN continues its never-ending saga on the reform of the Security Council (UNSC), one of the political anomalies that keeps cropping up is the absence of Africa, among the five permanent me...
Is the Reform of the UN Security Council a Good Try in a Lost Cause?
The myriads of proposals for the reform of the much-maligned Security Council have been kicked around the United Nations for more than two decades—with no significant progress. Speaking at the ...
Myanmar’s Military Catastrophe: Three Years and Counting
The military must have expected an easier ride. Three years ago, it ousted Myanmar’s democratically elected government. But the coup has been met with fierce resistance, unleashing a bloody con...
Blinken’s Visit to Africa: Is US Counterterrorism Counterproductive?
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s week-long tour across four African countries was aimed at strengthening the US-Africa relationship—a relationship, according to some commentators, alrea...
Serbia’s Suspicious Election
Serbia’s December 2023 elections saw the ruling party retain power – but amid a great deal of controversy. Civil society has cried foul about irregularities in the parliamentary election, but...
African Women on the Frontline of Peacekeeping
For over a year, a group of United Nations peacekeepers from Ghana led by Captain Esinam Baah regularly patrolled the “blue line” or the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel, and visit...
Is Bangladesh Sleep Walking to Dictatorship ?
The parliamentary elections held in Bangladesh on 7 January, 2024, has created much controversy in the country, terming it an “election of the Awami League (AL) government, for the AL governmen...
Turning Protracted African Conflicts into Sustainable Peace
Among East Africa’s dozens of pastoral tribes, major conflicts have erupted repeatedly, largely over land and water disputes. Generational trauma and anger have built to create tensions and gri...
Guatemala’s Chance for a New Beginning
Guatemala’s new president, Bernardo Arévalo, was expected to be sworn in on 14 January at 2pm –the 14th at 14:00, as people repeated in anticipation for months. It was a momentous event – ...
Hindu Woman Doctor Confident of Election In Pakistan Polls
A woman medical graduate from the Hindu community is making waves, as she is the first minority woman to contest the Pakistan Parliamentary election for a general seat, and she does so in the fac...