While most world leaders who attended the UN's Summit of the Future agree that multilateral systems need modernizing, not all ...

Georgia’s ruling party has put LGBTQI+ people firmly in the firing line ahead of next month’s election. On 17 September, ...

Climate change is driving a mental health crisis and accelerating eco-anxiety. Dr Emma Lawrance is a leading researcher on ...

When the “founding fathers” –regrettably, no “founding mothers”—created the United Nations 79 years ago, one of the biggest ...

In a context of shrinking civic space that threatens civil society participation in an increasing number of countries and all ...

A new report accuses industries fueling the climate crisis, including fossil fuel ones, of draining public funds in the ...

State-owned power companies and utilities control much of the power sector. Consequently, tripling renewables by 2030 will ...

Driving the Summit of the Future’s core messages are young people who are determined to address the intersecting issues that ...

This year has been the worst for the Amazon rainforest in almost two decades. Although there has been a measured decline in ...

The Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave recently generated international discussion about the barbarity of slavery, but it is not alone in the attempt to break the silence around the 400 years of the ...

It is almost universally acknowledged that Pakistan emerged a separate state in 1947 primarily on the basis of religion. Yes, an Islamic state, but isn’t history rather murky on the question of ...

Today, the chief of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe ...