By Gianna Pontecorboli, correspondent from New York
"Today, after doubts had been raised about the Security Council's ability to fulfil its mandate and at a time when multilateralsm itself is under threat, the General Assembly and its members demonstrate their...
By Raffaele Crocco, our weekly round-up of the news in Ukraine as the war continues to rage.
War is only horror. In Ukraine as elsewhere. Now, 111 days into the Russian invasion, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner...
By Lasse Bruun and Milena Bernal Rubio (*) – Newsweek
The aspiration of inter-regionalism is to ease access for companies to regulated markets by giving them more legal protection, better geographical access and lower investment costs. However, integration projects and...
The latest attack was carried out by jihadists: the dead on the ground number 86. All civilians, women, men, children, killed in the village of Seytenga, in northern Burkina Faso. It happened - says the government spokesman, Lionel Bilgo...
By Emanuele Giordana
The shadow of a clash between religious communities has returned to India ever since the Hindu nationalist party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been ruling the country. And, in the past few days, it seems to have...
The 53rd edition of the prestigious Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)' yearbook predicts that global nuclear arsenals will grow as states continue to modernise. In the 2022 Yearbook, available now, SIPRI brings together research findings and analyses that...
By Natasha Lennard - The Intercept_
A panel of three Trump-appointed judges this week upheld an excessive eight-year prison sentence handed down to climate activist Jessica Reznicek, ruling that a terrorism enhancement attached to her sentence was “harmless.”
The terror enhancement, which dramatically...
By Lucia Frigo, director of Atlasofwars.com
Nine months after the Taliban grabbed the power in Afghanistan, humanitarian organization Emergency paints a grim picture of the country: now more than ever the Afghani population need the support of the international community...
There is no stopping to the protests in Sudan. Despite the coup d'état (and repression) that scuttled the transition process to democracy that the country was struggling through, new demonstrations have been taking place for several weeks.
All these demonstrations...
By our director, Raffaele Crocco.
By now we have learned to expect it: it always comes early. This year the Earth Overshoot Day will come on 28 July: the day from which we will again be, officially, in debt to...
