Palestinians return to their homes destroyed by the Israeli army before its withdrawal, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on 11 February 2025.
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Energy stress is a significantly bigger problem for Indigenous households. Indigenous communities also need a genuine say on renewable or mineral projects on their land.
The US president spoke for 57 minutes (on a time limit of 15 minutes).
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The US president spoke for nearly four times his allotted time limit mixing America first meesages with severe criticism of the UN and many member states.
Palestinian-American historian Maha Nassar traces the history of Palestinian efforts to build an independent state. Listen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Exodus: Palestinian refugees flee the violence in Gaza City, September 16 2025.
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Hong Kong is marking five years of life under China’s national security law – opposition parties have disbanded, while democracy activists remain in jail or exile.
Dorothy Camille Shea, the interim US ambassador to the United Nations, told the security council that bombing Iran “effectively fulfilled our narrow objective: to degrade Iran’s capacity to produce a nuclear weapon”.
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A shaky truce is still in place in Lebanon. But the country remains on a tenuous footing with Israeli forces in the country’s south and Hezbollah refusing to lay down arms.
Craters in the lunar surface are visible in this photo taken during the Apollo 11 mission.
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Drawing on her personal experience at the Hague, Gretchen Shirm’s novel Out of the Woods confronts the issues of murder and displacement, cruelty and loss.
Children run at a summer camp, organised by Entraide (mutual aid) française for disadvantaged children and war victims, at the Château de la Guette in Villeneuve-Saint-Denis, France in May 1945.
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The second world war marked a turning point in the history of childhood. To train young people to build peace, authorities reinvested in schools and introduced new pedagogies.
The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are politicians listening?
Afghan refugees at a registration center upon their arrival from Pakistan in the Takhta Pul district of Kandahar province on December 18, 2023. Behind them is a sign from the IOM (International Organization for Migration), one of the UN agencies still active in the country.
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The government in place in Kabul, which has been in charge of the whole of Afghanistan since August 2021, is still not recognised. This in no way improves the lot of Afghan women in the country.
Demonstrators storm the MOUNSCO headquarters in Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo) on July 25, 2022, demanding the departure of the peacekeeping forces.
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Chiara Lanfranchi, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID); Margaux Pinaud, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID), and Sara Hellmüller, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
UN peacekeeping missions will be revamped to better respond to the realities on the ground where they are deployed.
Many protected areas, including California’s Yosemite National Park, displaced Indigenous people in the name of protecting wildlands.
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Private conservation groups channel huge sums of money to parks and protected areas around the world, but often have failed to protect basic rights of Indigenous people living on those lands.