Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by STUBBS Paul
This is a revised version of a talk given by the author at the Workshop ‘Dialoguing Between the Posts 2.0: (im)possible dialogue between the progressive forces of the ‘posts’’, Belgrade, Serbia 15 June 2019. He expresses his gratitude to workshop participants for their comments, and to Čarna (...)
, by FORD Liz
Measure on sexual violence in conflict passes after Trump administration threatened to veto document over references to reproductive health.
The UN has backed a resolution on combatting rape in conflict but excluded references in the text to sexual and reproductive health, after vehement (...)
, by VERBEEK Bart-Jaap
Accross the world, Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) procedures allow companies to evade legislation, ignore parliaments and make exhorbitant compensation claims against sovereign states. SOMO (NL) and other progressive NGOs have been lobbying for change inside the UN working group (...)
, by HOODBHOY Pervez
The ummah is at war with itself. What other way is there to describe the brutal bloodletting by Muslims of Muslims in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Turkey, and, of course, Pakistan.
To be fair, the ummah has not mattered for a long time to the governments or peoples of Muslim lands. (...)
, by The Guardian
To save his legacy Ban Ki-moon must refresh his top team with people who understand the UN’s founding principles
Seventy years ago today, warships lay anchored in a cove off Newfoundland, Canada. Churchill and Roosevelt set out principles for a post-war world, one of the first steps towards the (...)
, by GOWAN Peter
The American origins of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945, and the duality of US usages and conceptions of it ever since: from the Cold War through the collapse of the USSR to today’s war on terror and occupation of Mesopotamia.
During the twentieth century, American leaders twice (...)
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