Human RightsSyria Conflicts Highlight Violations of Humanitarian International Law
A recent wave of fighting in Syria, especially in the Eastern Ghouta zone near Damascus and in Afrin, a largely Kurdish area...
Rene Wadlow
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Human Rights
Global JusticeThe Disintegrating Donbass. Is there a future for a con-federal Ukraine?
The flight on 23 November 2017 of Igor Plotinitsky, President of the separatist Ukrainian area of the Lugansk People's Republic is a...
Global JusticeYemen: Effective Humanitarian Aid Depends on a Peace Accord
The United Nations together with the governments of Sweden and Switzerland which have often led humanitarian issues in the U.N. system held...
Peace & DisarmamentRapid 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 voted by...
Global JusticeSyria: Chemical Weapon Use, Destruction of Children, The Ethical Vacuum
The Association of World Citizens calls for the re-affirmation of humanitarian international law. It is a call to the soldiers and militia...
Global JusticeImmigration, Detention, Control
If I were another on the road, I wouldn't have looked back. I'd have said what one traveler says to another: Hello...
Global CooperationUN Day: Changing of the Guard
UN Day, 24 October, this year is marked by preparations for a changing of the guard. The ten years of Ban Ki-moon...
Global JusticeMaria Montessori: The Spirit of Education for World Citizenship
Maria Montessori (1870-1952), an Italian childhood educator and world citizen, would have been pleased at the efforts of the United Nations and...
Global JusticeDag Hammarskjold (29 July 1905 -18 September 1961) Crisis Manager and World Community Builder
You wake from dreams of doom and −for a moment− you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real...
Global JusticeYemen negotiations move ahead slowly – post-war planning needed
The UN-mediated peace negotiations for Yemen led by Ismail Ould Cheikh in Kuwait move ahead slowly. The 13-month war was at first...
Global JusticeWorld Humanitarian Summit: On the front lines for action
The World Humanitarian Summit organized by the United Nations will open on 23 May 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. The aim of the...
Global CooperationNew Challenges for Global Citizens
The Global Citizenship Commission (GCC) under the leadership of the former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown presented its report The Universal Declaration...