The international community must urgently step-up direct funding through United Nations agencies and NGOs to provide Afghan girls & boys with the life-saving support they need now. You are listening to the podcast version of the article: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/11/14/afghanistan-the-humanitarian-imperative-must-come-first-to-avoid-catastrophe/

The official dress down as Chancellor for Angela Merkel is in full swing. Recently, the first significant step that would shape Germany’s policies in the next political dispensation took place in Berlin; that day the parliament swore-in legislators who had been elected few weeks earlier.You are listening to the podcast version of the article: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/11/13/being-black-in-the-bundestag/

At this moment in western democracies, we are passing into a period of great unrest -social, political, and corporate where governments are enabling and exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to justify the suppression of civil rights. We became prone to think by merely reciting The Constitution, a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, or great acts of past patriotism that the future liberties are forever secure to us because we simply inherited the fine qualities of common descent and live in the same democratic territories. You are listening to the podcast version of the article: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/10/06/vaccine-passports-mandated-in-the-new-world-order/