The government of President Paul Biya is accused of committing atrocities against opponents.
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Cameroon’s English speaking people suffer gross marginalisation and are treated as second-class citizens by the Francophone government.
Rohingya refugees in paddy field behind the border of Bangladesh in 2017.
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It will take a global effort to slow the rise in
atrocities against religious groups.
Death in detention: the aftermath of an airstrike on the Tajoura camp in Tripoli in July 2019.
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The NATO-led military intervention in Libya has just fuelled more violence.
Students like these only stand a chance with proper resource allocation.
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Achieving the sustainable development goals on education in Ghana requires efficient resource allocation, not necessarily more money.
A line of cars spills on to the street as drivers wait to fill their tanks at a fuel station in Cabimas, Venezuela, in May 2019. U.S. sanctions on oil-rich Venezuela appear to be taking hold, resulting in mile-long lines for fuel and other hardships.
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The devastating costs of economic sanctions on Venezuela are being ignored or disregarded. So too is the lack of a legal basis for international intervention.
President Donald Trump keeps trying to change immigration law and the courts keep blocking him.
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The Trump administration has once again tried to change immigration law, this time enacting severe limits on the rights of asylum-seekers. An immigration law expert says only Congress can do that.
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Brazil’s deforestation rate is back up. The UN Security Council has three main options.
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What should be done to ensure that the SDGs actually change countries’ development trajectories? Here are four practical steps.
Syrian refugee families in Gazza village, in the Beqaa valley, Lebanon, January 30 2019.
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Syrian refugees in Lebanon know how best to manage their resources, but food aid currently prevents them.
Smoke billows from the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor (2017). Impossible living conditions force people to migrate. It is time to collect a “destruction tax” on arms transactions ?
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Wars play a central role in increasing numbers of refugees worldwide. Is it time to think about a “destruction tax”?
The institution’s west dormitory is depicted in this 1942 photograph. Scudder demanded that no walls be erected on the prison grounds.
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Scudder’s approach was grounded in trust and mutual respect. There would be no guards, no weapons, no walls and no uniforms.
Thousands of Liberians took part in a June 2019 protest against President George Weah.
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Depending on foreign aid to pay the bills makes moving on when it’s gone harder.
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The UK must accept that colonialism belongs in the history books, and that it must comply with its obligations under international law.
A map showing Northern Canada and the Arctic Ocean.
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In May 2019, Canada made a partial submission to the United Nations on the limits of its extended continental shelf in the Arctic.
Reuven Rivlin, president of the state of Israel, presents Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a gift of socks from his wife before a meeting in Chelsea, Que. in April 2019.
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Treating Israeli settlements as part of Israel in the new Canada-Israel free-trade deal entangles Canada in serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.
A king tide breaching a defence wall at Sabai Island in the Torres Strait, 2011.
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Torres Strait Islanders argue the government has violated their rights to culture, family and life.
A woman collects plastic bags bound for recycling in Yopougon, a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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Poorer countries can now refuse shipments of plastic waste and slow the build-up of pollution on their shores.
UN peacekeepers from South Africa in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012.
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The UN’s mandate must evolve to navigate new realities that include intra-state wars, non-state actors, and transnational crime.
An immediate threat.
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To reduce the risks posed by natural hazards, governments need to address residents’ everyday fears, too.
The UN Security Council at the headquarters, in New York.
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An international civil service matters for global governance. Without it, it would be impossible to promote and maintain a rules-based world.