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Seas are rising in the Torres Strait, swamping crops and graveyards. Friday’s decision by a landmark UN committee is a breakthrough for Indigenous rights and climate justice.
The cancellation of the WorldPride 2025 event in Taiwan is not only a loss for LGBTQ+ rights in Asia. It’s also emblematic of the influence of authoritarian regimes worldwide.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Reform of the UN to make it more inclusive and accountable is long overdue, the two leaders have said.
Millions of Somalis are in urgent need of aid. But not enough is being done to reach marginalised groups.
A nuclear nonproliferation expert explains why Iran was always unlikely to return to the 2015 international agreement that limited its nuclear weapon development.
The report shies away from the issue of ‘genocide’, but is still a landmark document with evidence of widespread abuse of Uyghur people.
While Russia and Ukraine’s war wages on, previous peace talk discussions didn’t appear to include women. Changing that can make a difference, research shows.
To his credit, former South African president Thabo Mbeki set up anti-corruption institutions that survived his own efforts to erode them.
Six months into the Ukraine war, around 5000 Ukrainian civilans and 9000 soldiers have died, but the war shows no sign of ending.
India’s international climate pledge could set the tone for other emerging economies for a decade.
A scholar of humanitarianism sums up what she saw on the ground during a five-week research trip to Poznań, Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow and several smaller cities along the Poland-Ukraine border.
DRC has the highest number of allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers – yet no systematic research on the claims of their abandoned children has existed until now.
Rwanda believes DRC continues to provide refuge for those behind the 1994 genocide.
Other recent conflicts that resulted in war crimes allegations help explain how complex it will be to gather evidence of war crimes in Ukraine – and provide answers for families of victims of the war.
It’s more than moral posturing. Resolutions like this have a history of laying the foundation for effective treaties and national laws.
Long considered a frozen conflict, the Western Sahara dispute roared back to life in late 2020, reviving old wounds and inflicting fresh ones.
Protests are likely to continue over the coming months, particularly in the run-up to the Congo presidential elections next year.
The UN has been working for 20 years to increase the number of female peacekeepers – but countries that give their troops to the UN are reluctant to put more women in active combat.
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