June 14, 2019
Middle East Regional Negotiations in Good Faith Needed
The recent 13 June mine explosions on two Japanese oil tankers, the Kohaka Courageous and the Front Altair in the…
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May 30, 2019
UN Peacekeeping Forces: One Tool Among Many
On May 29, the world marked the International Day of the United Nations Peacekeepers, a date chosen in memory of…
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April 28, 2019
The League of Nations and its Unused Peace Army
28 April 1919 can be considered as the birth of the League of Nations. The creation of the League had…
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February 5, 2019
Reprisals on
Reprisals on
Human Rights Defenders:
Need for NGO Action
On 23 January 2019, the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a statement listed States which had carried out reprisals or…
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August 26, 2018
Kofi Annan (1938-2018)
Kofi Annan (1938-2018)
Resolution of armed conflicts through negotiations in good faith
"Over the years we have come to realize that it is not enough to send peacekeeping forces to separate warring…
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June 3, 2018
United Nations: Looking toward 2020
Starting with the League of Nations There are two major issues today that the League of Nations did not have…
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February 26, 2018
Syria Conflicts Highlight Violations of Humanitarian International Law
Cease Fire Is Needed A recent wave of fighting in Syria, especially in the Eastern Ghouta zone near Damascus and…
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July 19, 2017
Rapid Ratification Needed of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
On 7 July 2017, at the United Nations in New York, a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was…
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June 12, 2017
Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor
12 June is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labor. …
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