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There’s no doubt it was time for the United Nations mission in Liberia to end. But there are some gaps in the country’s plan to move on without the men and women in blue helmets.
That South Africa has voted against rights enshrined in its globally celebrated, progressive constitution suggests a troubling indifference to its human rights commitments.
The world has global authorities for trade and security, but not for threats to the environment. It’s time the natural world got its own version of the World Trade Organisation or UN Security Council.
The rise in the number of people fleeing Boko Haram terror calls for urgent amendments to Nigeria’s constitution to provide legal protection to the country’s millions of internally displaced citizens.
The ‘functional immunity’ granted to UN officials made good sense when the body was founded after World War II. But as its organisational functions have expanded, so has this immunity.
Few would advocate a withdrawal from the United Nations. But international law has a big impact on Britain too.
Enough tiptoeing around: without ending state discrimination, we have little hope of stopping HIV and AIDS.
A Syrian asylum seeker has been permitted to stay in Greece on the grounds that Turkey is not safe for return. It could be a major blow for the EU’s controversial refugee strategy.
Sino-Japanese rivalry might well come to dominate this year’s G7 and G20.
Calls to stop division between emergency and development aid will be heard at UN’s first ever humanitarian summit.
Saving the world’s forests and oceans means putting an end to slavery run by criminal gangs.
After the breakthrough at last year’s Paris climate talks, the hard work resumes this week as delegates meet in Germany to discuss how to ramp up countries’ climate targets.
The UK may have signed the UN drugs convention – with its emphasis on prohibition – but that doesn’t mean it can’t legalise the drug.
Protecting humanitarian workers requires an understanding of their individual situation, not broad assumptions.
Research shows that South African companies are neglecting the more challenging aspects of sustainability reporting.
The United Nations is using an exhibition roller derby match in Beijing as a way of promoting China’s groundbreaking domestic violence laws. This fast-paced, full-contact sport is challenging traditional ideas about female athletes.
The UN might now apologise for poisoning scores of Roma people in Kosovo – but its role in Haiti’s cholera disaster still goes unacknowledged.
More than 160 countries are expected to sign the Paris Agreement in New York on April 22. But enough countries will also need to ratify the treaty domestically before it can become international law.
The signing of the Paris agreement is the first step towards making it a reality.
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