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The UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights will look at the effects of austerity on the UK’s most vulnerable.
The Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups and civil wars in North Africa.
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Study suggests that the UN’s own principles sometimes prevented it from living up to its objectives
A new short drug treatment for tuberculosis, called BPaMZ, is showing promise in trials.
(The National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (Georgia) on behalf of TB Alliance)
We cannot end TB with century-old technologies and poor quality care. It is time to reinvent the way we are managing TB, and overcome our collective failures of the imagination.
Canada, Mexico and other U.S. allies aren’t walking away from the principles of economic cooperation.
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The death of the rules-based world order that supports the global economy and free trade has been greatly exaggerated.
Steve Courtoreille, chief of the Mikisew Cree First Nation, is seen on Parliament Hill in January 2013 after speaking about legal action against the federal government. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled against the First Nation.
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The headlines suggest the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled against Indigenous consultation. But its recent ruling is much more nuanced and complex than that.
A 2013 photo that shows people holding a quilt for victims of sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
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The Second Vatican Council made many doctrinal changes possible in the Catholic Church. An expert argues why the church needs another such council.
The MK 15 Phalanx close-in weapons system, on the USS Reuben James guided-missile frigate, fires during an exercise.
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We already have some autonomous weapons – so talk of any ban should focus on where we draw the line on what is acceptable, and what is not. Can we at least agree on that?
A Rohingya refugee woman in Bangladesh.
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The evidence in the report is compelling, but experts explain there are many barriers to global leaders taking action.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference in Ottawa in June 2018. A United Nations housing watchdog has criticized the Liberals over what it sees as their about-face on a promise to put a human rights lens on its housing strategy.
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If the liberal international order is to survive, countries like Canada will need to defend international human rights law.
Names of victims of the Rwandan Genocide in Kigali.
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The Rwanda Tribunal convicted people for indescribably horrific crimes and some are asking for early release.
The U.S. military is already testing a Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System.
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A standard element of international humanitarian law since 1899 should guide countries as they consider banning lethal autonomous weapons systems.
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Kofi Annan’s tenure began after the reintroduction of two important international security lexicons – peacebuilding and human security.
Kofi Annan in 2009.
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While his appointment as UN Secretary-General was a huge breakthrough, Kofi Annan also led the organisation through some of its ugliest moments.
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
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He left an enduring legacy of embedding democracy and involving civil society in the pursuit of peace.
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan left a mixed legacy.
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Kofi Annan was the first UN employee to rise to the position of Secretary General but his tenure also had a darker side.
The United Nations says the number of forcibly displaced persons around the world has risen to 68.5 million.
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States’ approaches to challenges of forced displacement and migration often fail to acknowledge a sometimes competing, but always essential, consideration – the basic dignity of the human person.
The UN committee issued over 90 recommendations for improvement, demonstrating that negative aspects far outweigh progress on women’s rights.
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A UN committee has identified numerous ways in which Australia is falling short on the rights of women and children – it must now take the committee’s recommendations seriously.
Lay down your arms.
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A new strategy from the UN secretary general challenges the world to explain why it’s not doing more to defuse the nuclear threat.
Inside the 1994 Kigali Genocide Memorial.
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An investigative work by journalist Judi Rever is an indictment, describing massacres committed by the Kagame regime so as to establish their qualification as a genocide.
Child marriages remain a problem in Mauritius.
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Laws in Mauritius allow minors to marry while some cultures on the island are tolerant of child marriage.