Global CooperationInternational Election Monitors: Agents of Free Elections
The violent presidential election in Burundi highlights the need for UN election-monitoring services. On the eve of the July 21 presidential election,...
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Global JusticeThe Trial of Hissène Habré: An Advance for World Law
The trial of Hissène Habré, former President of Chad, which opened in Dakar, Senegal, on July 20 marks a new step in...
June 26: Anniversary of the Signing of the UN Charter
June 26 is the anniversary date of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. While...
Omar Al-Bashir: Like a Thief in the Night
In what was almost a "Pinochet moment" in South Africa, the NGO Southern African Litigation Centre requested a South African court to...
Julian Huxley and the Intellectual Foundations of UNESCO
Visions of beauty for mankind to seeThe Present's place in the Eternal scheme,And point which way to turn Life's undeciding stream. —"Holyrood,"...
Human RightsA Time of Departure: Forces that Create Refugees and Migrants
Current refugee-migrant flows (from Burma and Bangladesh toward Thailand and Malaysia, and across the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East toward...
Global JusticeLet My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor
June 12 is a red-letter day on the UN agenda of events as the World Day Against Child Labor. It marks the...
Human RightsThe Difficult but Necessary Road to Yemen Negotiations
The continued aggression of Saudi Arabia against civilians in Yemen and the use of cluster munitions in violation of the UN Convention...
Global CooperationNPT 2015: Nuclear Weapons and Tension Areas
As Winston Churchill once quipped, “God so loved the world that he did not send a committee.” The Drafting Committee of the...
Global CooperationNPT: New Opportunities and Obsolete Perceptions
In my last blog, I outlined the framework of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the role of...
Peace & DisarmamentNuclear Non-Proliferation and Global Order
The Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) started at the United Nations in New York on...
Global CooperationCluster Bombs: Saudi Use, US Sales, and the Review Conference on Their Prohibition
The Saudi-led aggression on Yemen has on at least two separate occasions used cluster bombs to attack villages in Yemen's northern Saada...