Global Geopolitics

Opinion: Security Council Resolution on Airlines Disaster Debases U.N. Charter

By Somar Wijayadasa
On July 29 Russia vetoed a draft U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolution on the establishment of an international tribunal to investigate the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight over eastern Ukraine last year - killing all 298 people on board.

Opinion: The Sad Historical Consequences of the Greek Bailout

By Roberto Savio
In recommendations to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the end of July, the German Council of Economic Experts outlined how a weak member country could leave the Eurozone and called for strengthening the European monetary union.

Opinion: Developing Nations Set to Challenge Rich Ahead of SDG Summit

By Soren Ambrose
The final round of negotiations on the Sustainable Development Goals – the successor to the Millennium Development Goals, due to be inaugurated in September at the U.N. General Assembly – is now underway in New York.

Opinion: European Federalism and Missed Opportunities

By Emma Bonino
"A serious political and social crisis will sweep through the euro countries if they do not decide to strengthen the integration of their economies. The euro zone crisis did not begin with the Greek crisis, but was manifested much earlier, when a monetary union was created without economic and fiscal union in the context of a financial sector drugged on debt and speculation.”

Clean Water Another Victim of Syria’s War

By Kanya D'Almeida
Caught in the grips of a summer heat-wave, in a season that is seeing record-high temperatures worldwide, residents of the war-torn city of Aleppo in northern Syria are facing off against yet another enemy: thirst.

Mideast Arms Build-up Negative Fallout from Iran Nuclear Deal

By Thalif Deen
The nuclear agreement concluded last week between Iran and six big powers, the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, is threatening to trigger a new Middle East military build-up – not with nuclear weapons but with conventional arms, including fighter planes, combat helicopters, warships, missiles, battle tanks and heavy artillery.

Governments Playing Political Ping-Pong with China’s Uyghurs

By Zhai Yun Tan
Two reports released in quick succession by the international rights group Human Rights Watch have highlighted the plight of China’s minority Uyghur population and shed light on their continuing struggle to find a safe haven elsewhere in the region.

Despite ISIS Ascendancy, U.S. Public Wary of War

By Kitty Stapp
As the Islamic State, known variously as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh, consolidates its hold over parts of Iraq and Syria to the degree that it has in many ways become a functioning state, the U.S. public remains divided over any intervention involving ground troops, a new survey shows.

Opinion: Addis Outcome Will Impact Heavily on Post-2015 Agenda – Part 2

By Bhumika Muchhala
The United Nations is the only universal forum that connects systemic issues to the global partnership for development. The latter recognises North-South cooperation based on historical responsibility and varying levels of development and capacity among member states of the U.N.

Opinion: Third FfD Conference Fails to Finance Development – Part One

By Bhumika Muchhala
The third Financing for Development (FfD) conference in Addis Ababa concluded last Thursday, July 16, in bad faith as developed countries rejected a proposal for a global tax body and dismissed developing countries’ compromise proposal to strengthen the existing U.N. committee of tax experts.

Opinion: A BRICS Bank to Challenge the Bretton Woods System?

By Daya Thussu
The formal opening of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai on Jul. 21 following the seventh summit of the world’s five leading emerging economies held recently in the Russian city of Ufa, demonstrates the speed with which an alternative global financial architecture is emerging.

Museums Taking Stand for Human Rights, Rejecting ‘Neutrality’

By A. D. McKenzie
An exhibition on modern-day slavery at the International Slavery Museum in this northern English town is just one example of a museum choosing to focus on human rights, and being “upfront” about it.

Young Hondurans Lead Unprecedented Anti-Corruption Movement

By Thelma Mejía
A Honduran spring is happening, led by young people mobilising over the social networks, who are flooding the streets with weekly torch marches against corruption and impunity.

Security Council Defies U.S. Lawmakers by Voting on Iran Nuke Deal

By Thalif Deen
When all 15 members of the Security Council raised their collective hands to unanimously vote in favour of the recently-concluded nuclear agreement with Iran, they were also defying a cabal of right-wing conservative U.S. politicians who wanted the United Nations to defer its vote until the U.S. Congress makes its own decision on the pact.

Opinion: Iran Deal Has Far-Reaching Potential to Remake International Relations

By Arul Louis
The Vienna agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council acting in concert with Germany has the potential to remake international relations beyond the immediate goal of stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Opinion: Mandela Day – Where Do We Stand Today?

By Tamira Gunzberg
Today Jul. 18 is Mandela Day, the annual international day in honour of the late Nelson Mandela, the first democratically-elected President of the Republic of South Africa.

Kashmiri Women Suffering a Surge in Gender-Based Violence

By Athar Parvaiz
Rizwana* had hoped and expected that justice would be served – that the man who raped her would be sufficiently punished for his crime. Months after she suffered at his hands, however, the perpetrator remains at large.

Civilian Killings? West Literally Gets Away With Murder

By Thalif Deen
The United Nations continues to come under heavy fire for singling out mostly non-Western states for human rights violations while ignoring the misdeeds of Western nations or big powers.

Nuclear Deal Takes U.S.-Iran Ties Out of Deep Freeze – Partly, at Least

By Jasmin Ramsey
A historic deal on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme was announced today during the early morning hours in Vienna over a decade after talks between Tehran and world powers began.

Opinion: U.N. Can Help Reform the International Financial System

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
The growth in global interdependence poses greater challenges to policy makers on a wide range of issues and for countries at all levels of development.

Female Commandos Ready to Take on the Taliban

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
For years, Robina Shah has dreamed of joining the police force. Ever since her father, a police constable, was killed in a 2013 Taliban suicide attack in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, she has longed to carry on his legacy.
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