By Dawn Clancy for PASSBLUE
In the waning days of 2021, roughly two months before its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russia agreed to contribute $14 million to the United Nations Development Program for climate-related projects in Europe and...
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 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...
By Emanuele Giordana
Amnesty International's latest report on Myanmar - 'Bullets raining from the sky: War Crimes and Displacement in Eastern Myanmar' - is an investigation conducted by Amnesty International in the two states of Kayin and Kayah. The two...
In the Philippines, as in many other countries, disability discrimination is rooted and reinforced by superstitions and misunderstandings. United Youth for Peace and Development (UNYPAD) is a Muslim youth organization that aims to produce competent, effective and skilled young...
By Emanuele Giordana*.
If there is a red thread holding together the return of the old powers in Asia - from Sri Lanka to Pakistan, from the Philippines to Myanmar - its name is dynasty. It is a phenomenon that...
By Emanuele Giordana
Calm seems to have returned to the streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka, after a violent day of clashes on Monday. The tragic toll includes five dead, including an MP, and over 200 injured. Several houses were set...
The parliamentary no-confidence vote for Imran Khan last Sunday (174 votes out of 342 seats) saw tens of thousands of his supporters protesting against his dethronement, invading the country from Islamabad to Peshawar (where Imran has his electoral base)...
Sri Lanka is facing its worst financial crisis in 70 years, with food prices rising by a staggering 30% in March alone. In a country of 22 million people, massive protests across the country are calling for the resignation...
By Bertil Lintner* – Asia Times
If anyone had thought that there could, as the UN and the outside world advocate, be a dialogue between Myanmar’s junta and the democratic opposition, those hopes were effectively dashed when the country’s military...
