Armed Conflicts

The Myths About the Nuclear Deal With Iran

By Thalif Deen
The single biggest misunderstanding about the nuclear agreement with Iran is that it is a bilateral deal with the United States.

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.

Fear Stalks Students in Northern Pakistan

By Ashfaq Yusufzai and Kanya D'Almeida
It has been seven months since a group of gunmen raided the Army Public School in Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, killing 145 people, including 132 students.

Children Increasingly Becoming the Spoils of War

By Beatriz Ciordia
Whether in Palestine, Ukraine or Somalia, wars result in millions of children threatened by the brutality of armed conflict.

Pledges for Humanitarian Aid Fall Far Short of Deliveries

By Thalif Deen
When international donors pledge millions of dollars either for post-conflict reconstruction or for humanitarian aid, deliveries are rarely on schedule: they are either late, fall far below expectations or not delivered at all.

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.

Syrians: ‘Biggest Refugee Population From a Single Conflict in a Generation’

By Kanya D'Almeida
Barely 10 months ago, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said the refugee population from Syria had reached the three million mark. Today, the latest data from the field show that the number has passed four million.

Q&A: “If We Don’t Close the Poverty Gap, the 21st Century Will End in Extreme Violence”

By Nora Happel
Implementation of the ambitious post-2015 development agenda which will be adopted in September 2015 at the United Nations depends to a large extent on funding.

Humanitarian Emergencies Lend Urgency to World Population Day

By Thalif Deen
On the eve of World Population Day, the United Nations is fighting a virtually losing battle against growing humanitarian emergencies triggered mostly by military conflicts that are displacing people by the millions – and rendering them either homeless or reducing them to the status of refugees.

Opinion: Unlocking the Potential of Mali’s Young Women and Men

By Jean-Luc Stalon
The recent peace agreements in Mali offer grounds for optimism. It’s now time to capitalise on the accord to accelerate recovery, reconciliation and development. An important part of that process will entail placing the country’s youth at the center of the country’s agenda for peace and prosperity.

Ebola Recovery Focuses on Strengthening Africa’s Health Systems

By Thalif Deen
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, addressing delegates in a run-up to an international Ebola recovery conference, said last month that “all of the investments, all of the sacrifices and all of the risks by relief workers” would be squandered if an outbreak of the disease recurs.

Analysis: Is Colombia’s Peace Process Really at Its Lowest Ebb?

By Constanza Vieira
There is a growing sensation in Colombia that the peace talks with the FARC guerrillas are “about to come to an end” – in success or failure, according to the government’s chief negotiator, Humberto de la Calle.

Opinion: Religion and the SDGs – The ‘New Normal’ and Calls for Action

By Azza Karam
In 2007, an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune argued that you “gotta have faith in the U.N”.

Child Labour: A Hidden Atrocity of the Syrian Crisis

By Kanya D'Almeida
In a conflict that has claimed over 220,000 lives and injured a further 840,000 people as of January 2015, it is sometimes hard to see beyond the death toll.

Funding For Desperate Palestinian Refugees Under Threat

By Mel Frykberg
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) faces a severe financial crisis which could see core services to desperate Palestinian refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank halted unless donors step in before the end of September.

Syrian Refugees Face Hunger Amidst Humanitarian Funding Crisis

By Zhai Yun Tan
The United Nations’ food aid organisation, the World Food Programme (WFP), said on Jul. 1 that up to 440,000 refugees from war-torn Syria might have to go hungry if no additional funds are received by August.

U.N. Remains Divided Over Domestic and State Terrorism

By Thalif Deen
When nine African-American worshippers were gunned down by a white supremacist inside a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina last month, there was a sharp division of opinion in the United States whether that murderous act of killing innocent civilians constituted a “hate crime” or an “act of terrorism.”

Perfecting Detection of the Bomb

By Ramesh Jaura
An international conference has highlighted advances made in detecting nuclear explosions,tracking storms or clouds of volcanic ash, locating epicentres of earthquakes, monitoring the drift of huge icebergs, observing the movements of marine mammals, and detecting plane crashes.

U.S. Urged to Ramp up Aid for Agent Orange Clean-Up Efforts in Vietnam

By Zhai Yun Tan
A key senator and a D.C.-based think tank are calling for Washington to step up its aid in cleaning up toxic herbicides sprayed by the United States in Vietnam during the war that ended 40 years ago.

Afghanistan: No Place for Children

By Kanya D'Almeida
No one will deny that when a child – any child – is killed, it is a tragedy. Imagine, then, the extent of the tragedy in Afghanistan where, in just four years, 2,302 children have lost their lives as a result of ongoing fighting in this country of 30 million people.
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