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In Defence of Bill Gates
Should Bill Gates get the Nobel Prize? 23 June 2025…
June 23, 2025
- Aid
- Global Health
The philanthropy of Bill Gates must be approached with...
The humanitarian credentials of Bill Gates are not in doubt…
June 4, 2025
- Facts and feelings
- Gaza Palestine
- Humanitarian
- Humanity
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is the best of bad...
Countering hunger deaths in Gaza require no effort to be…
May 27, 2025
- Humanitarian
Humanitarianism has to keep pace with the changing political...
Our ancient humanitarian principles need an upgrade if we are…
May 1, 2025
- Genocide
Time to re-examine the wording of the Genocide Convention
“Genocide” has lost its shock value , and the Genocide…
April 9, 2025
- Aid
Countries need to go back to the drawing board...
Getting better value from shrinking volumes of aid requires shifts…
April 3, 2025
- Aid
Restoring foreign aid’s moral purpose is the right response...
As President Donald Trump puts American foreign aid through the…
February 28, 2025
- Aid
- Global Health
Trump’s WHO exit is a chance for it to...
The dire consequences of US withdrawal from WHO provides a…
February 7, 2025
- Aid
- Integrity
- UNOPS
Corruption and Systematic Abuse at UNOPS continues
My earlier writings on the United Nations Office for…
January 28, 2025
- Genocide
- Humanity
Do the Voices of Victims of Mass Atrocities Make...
The Voices of the victims of mass atrocities compel us…
January 27, 2025
- Justice
- Syria
There are many paths to justice – which will...
Hard-headed or tender-hearted: how is justice best served in Syria?…
January 9, 2025
- Aid
- Syria
How to repair a country like Syria: Big aid...
Can a fragmented aid system get over its internal rivalries…
December 23, 2024
- Genocide
- Human Rights
Does the language of ‘genocide’ enable or hinder a...
It hurts the same whether an atrocity is genocidal or…
December 9, 2024
- War and Peace
If not peace, a four-year pause in death and...
Wars are costly but making peace is not cost-free either,…
November 20, 2024
- Facts and feelings
Media Angst in the Era of Washington Post cancellation
Muddling facts, opinions, and emotions in today’s media reporting is…
November 5, 2024
- Humanitarian
Humanising wars requires going beyond the Geneva Conventions
The Geneva Conventions stagnate while warfare evolves. 28 October 2024…
October 28, 2024
- Peacekeeping
- War and Peace
Unifil can’t keep the peace in Lebanon, but it...
The UN peacekeeper presence on the Lebanon/Israel border is symbolic…
October 14, 2024
- Multilateralism
Why is multilateralism failing to deliver on its high...
Multilateralism is not finished. The world is just getting more…
September 26, 2024