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- Genocide
Genocidal name-calling unhelpful amid crisis in Middle East (Israel/Palestine)
Humanity dictates that we listen, empathise and help, but emotional…
December 1, 2023
- Global Health
It Is Time to Streamline the Global HIV/AIDS Architecture
Is it time to declare victory and downsize the huge…
December 1, 2023
- Global Health
An overheated world is bad news for our bodies
As the planet heats, billions of people risk falling out…
November 27, 2023
- War and Peace
Keep an eye on Djibouti
Djibouti must be helped to remain the calm centre…
November 3, 2023
- War and Peace
In the Israel-Gaza war, the UN must play a...
The UN’s humanitarian role is indispensable, yet why is it…
October 19, 2023
- War and Peace
War didn’t look like this when the Geneva Conventions...
Nasty urbanised wars are now the norm and there are…
October 17, 2023
- War and Peace
On Mahatma Gandhi’s 154th birthday, is non-violence still an...
Non-violence is a comprehensive philosophy to refute the need for…
October 2, 2023
- Global Health
Geopolitics at Heart of Elections for New Director of...
Who will bridge the difference between nations in the most…
September 28, 2023
- Development
The Sustainable Development Goals are hard to achieve, but...
The SDGs still provide the vision for a better world…
September 24, 2023
- Global Health
Shenanigans in WHO South-East Asia as Politician’s Daughter Contests...
Will self-serving politics or principled professionalism prevail in elections critical…
September 18, 2023
- Humanitarian
Afghanistan is in urgent need of a ‘mental health...
Tackling the psychological trauma of its decades-long crisis is essential…
September 5, 2023
- Genocide
Saving ourselves from Evil is ultimately a personal responsibility
Evil flourishes when institutions protect themselves rather than looking out…
August 30, 2023
- Peace
Ten Lessons in Peace Mediation from Sudan
Compromising principles to make peace will eventually lead to failure…
August 24, 2023
- Global Health
Eastern Mediterranean Countries Deserve Better Health: Will the New...
Given the right choice, the new regional director of WHO…
August 24, 2023
- Humanitarian
My boss died in a Baghdad bombing that changed...
Twenty years after Sergio Vieira de Mello and 22 others…
August 18, 2023
- Human Rights
Tackling modern slavery is the best way of paying...
The blame-and-compensate culture is no way to heal old wounds.…
August 13, 2023
- Human Rights
Treating indigenous people fairly benefits all humanity
Development approaches that leave behind indigenous communities is a loss…
August 8, 2023
- Justice
Mandela Day is a moment to question everything you...
The number of inmates around the world grows every year,…
July 14, 2023