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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”. EPA-EFE/Sarah Yenesel

Bombing Iran: has the UN charter failed?

The UN Security Council veto makes it virtually impossible to uphold its own charter when it comes to acts of aggression such as the bombing of Iran.
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. AFP

Education for peace: the effort to teach children how to rebuild societies after WWII

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.
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. Sanaullah Seiam/AFP

Is it time to recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan?

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. Glody Murhabazi/AFP

Learning from the withdrawals of UN peacekeeping missions in Mali and the DRC

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. Matthew Dillon/Flickr

New set of human rights principles aims to end displacement and abuse of Indigenous people through ‘fortress conservation’

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.

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