When Russia illegally invaded Ukraine, was not that the moment for the United Nations to send its secretary general to Moscow to demand a ceasefire?
The fact that mass killings should still take place in our modern world shows that we need to do more to oppose it
Liubov Abravitova welcomed the belated telephone conversation and said Zelenskiy made plain that this was Russia’s war, with consequences for the whole world
Although destruction tends to dominate headlines, we engage in thousands of acts of creation every single day
With Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the world order has been upended – and South Africa needs to think carefully about how it positions itself
These are the veto power of the Security Council, major powers ignore the UN and the UN secretary general cannot favour either side in the war
The way in which countries worked together and marshalled resources to address the pandemic shows that big challenges can be addressed if there is political will
In World War I, millions of people fled Germany and millions fled when Germany occupied their countries; in Ukraine, it’s estimated four million will flee; and around the world there are 30 million refugees
Sanctions against Russia, and that country’s blockades of ports, may affect gas, precious metals and wheat supplies – but it also allows Africa to step into the gap
If holding a gun to a nation’s head may be justified on the grounds of avoiding human death and suffering, where was their gun when the Rohingyas were murdered and fled from their homes in Myanmar or when a US drone killed Afghan civilians?
But others argue that the conservation plan will amount to the ‘biggest land grab in history’
There are wars in Africa and Asia and some are rarely commented on in the media, so why is Ukraine different?
Cape Town draped its city hall in blue and yellow, the colours of Ukraine.
Politics have come in the way of South Africa upholding its commitment to international criminal justice as the ANC reconsiders its 2016 threat to leave the international criminal court
Desperate, hungry and thirsty, more and more people are flocking to Baidoa from rural areas of southern Somalia, one of the regions hardest hit by the drought that is engulfing the Horn of Africa.
Democratic countries that are committed to human rights must take decisive action to pressure India to quell its abuses and protect minority communities.
Some human rights organisations are enabling toxicity to harmful degrees
In 2019 Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir was ousted after a massive wave of protests. But the generals who replaced him won’t hand over power. Now the flames of revolution are being rekindled.
Institutions and nonprofits have stepped in to provide training, manuals and other support.
The return of Patrice Lumumba’s remains must not be an occasion for Belgium to congratulate itself, but for a full accounting of the colonial violence that led to the assassination and coverup
Family hopes for answers now that a probe has been completed into a friendly fire incident that killed a South African soldier in the DRC
No to ‘climate-stupid’ agriculture
Resolution 1325 marks a milestone in the UN’s thinking about women: their lives are multilinear and multiple factors affect their participation in public and private life
Freedom of conscience and movement cannot be used as a reason
not to wear a mask or to be vaccinated
A United Nations spokesperson said the latest detentions had occurred in the capital of Afar province, on the only functional road leading into famine-threatened Tigray.
We were warned at least 65 years ago but have only now started to talk about the climate crisis
South Africa, the continent’s largest emitter, is not among several African countries that joined the UK-led coalition committing to phase out the fossil fuel
Michelle Bachelet insisted on the need to bring perpetrators of a vast array of rights abuses to justice
The latest United Nations report on the greenhouse gas emissions gap paints bleak picture for the climate accord target
The Democratic Alliance leader rebuking cricketer Quinton de Kock would be this election season’s greatest triumph
On Monday soldiers detained Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, his ministers and civilian members of Sudan’s ruling council, who have been heading a transition to full civilian rule
Financial investments and high-tech measures aimed at increasing farm productivity and cutting food waste can solve chronic global hunger by 2030