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Kazakhstan: United Nations Security Council 2017-2018
Kazakhstan, in an attempt to build its reputation as mediator and the leading country in Central Asia, is seeking a position on the 15-member...
Burundi: Storm Warning
The United Nations Human Rights Council ended its session on Friday, 3 July, and called attention to two new country situations which require strong...
UN Reaffirms the Safeguards for Civilians in Times of War
“Accountability for breaches of international humanitarian law and for human rights violations, as well as respect for human rights, are not obstacles to peace,...
Happy 70th birthday, UN Charter!
On October 24th, 2015 the United Nations and its charter will be 70 years old. However, it was before October, more specifically on June...
Tackling inequality is key to the post-MDGs development agenda
Fairness and equal opportunity are vital to rich and developing countries alike, warns Jan Vandemoortele, who was among the architects of the UN’s Millennium...
State of confusion on the edge of total collapse
Four years of fighting and no concrete solutions coming from regional, international actors or organizations, not a single action and agreement reached so far...
Impotent leadership at the United Nations
The United Nations, an organization of governments created in 1945 following World War II, was meant to foster international cooperation between members and prevent...
The ever present world-system perspective within the UN ECOFIN
As the Political Economy World-System theory suggests, the world has a stratification system. In the world economy, class positions result in an unequal resources...
The Elders and Russia’s role in international affairs
Six members of the Elders Group, led by Kofi Annan, took a three-day trip to Moscow to hold a series of private meetings with...
World powers must abandon double standard policies
Ms. Najiba Mustafayeva, PhD candidate in International Law, Expert at the Center for Strategic Studies (SAM) under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan,...