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How the World Enables China’s Legal Gamesmanship
More specifically, I suggested that the official delegates of the 160-plus national governments who will convene later in 2020 for…
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Raising the Stakes in Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmiri militancy is growing, often with Pakistani encouragement. ICG Allies should urge New Delhi to relax its clampdown and Islamabad…
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Pandemic’s economic fallout will worsen conflicts: U.N. diplomats
COVID-19 is hampering aid programs, diverting the attention and resources of major powers battling the deadly virus at home, and…
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Salvaging the Security Council’s Coronavirus Response
Their appeal has fallen flat. ICG Council members should use their August downtime to look at how it might still…
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Reflecting The Law of the Sea : In Defense of the Bay of Bangal’s Grey Area
Despite its status as an unparalleled accomplishment of diplomacy and international law, the treaty is not exhaustive or without ambiguities.…
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Erdogan Is Erasing Ataturk’s Stamp On Turkey
Under normal circumstances, the most important news out of Turkey last weekend would have been a new law that, critics…
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UNESCO statement on Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Paris, Friday 10 July – The Director-General of UNESCO deeply regrets the decision of the Turkish authorities, made without prior discussion,…
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Global tourism stands to lose up to $4.8 trillion from COVID-19, UN says
The ‘COVID-19 and Tourism’ report released by The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is based on three…
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UN says 140 million girls are `missing’
The agency, known as UNFPA, also said that one-in-five marriages that take place today involves an underage girl and an…
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2 million children in Yemen are at risk of dying of starvation
Unicef urgently needs funds to continue its work supporting children who are in catastrophic crisis The Irish Times Yemen is…
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Forcibly displaced now account for 1% of humanity – UN report
Almost 80 million people are refugees or internally displaced, with the number doubling in the past decade The number of…
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What’s Happened to the UN Secretary-General’s COVID-19 Ceasefire Call?
This is an expanded and updated version of remarks originally given to a conference organised by Mitvim – the Israeli…
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Top fugitive in Rwanda’s genocide arrested in Paris
Felicien Kabuga, who had a $US5 million ($7.8 million) bounty on his head, had been accused of equipping militias in…
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Repatriation of Dutch children in Syria now unlikely – but it shouldn’t be a political choice
Now these children and their families face considerable legal and logistical challenges. Authors The Conversation They are unable to access…
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Global pandemic provides an opportunity and an imperative for global human rights change
ISHR Director Phil Lynch shares seven key reflections on what it might mean. Phil Lynch ISHR Dear friends and supporters…
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With Senior Diplomat José Ramos Horta
The Thirteenth Episode of Diplomata Program, With Senior Diplomat José Ramos Horta Video
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