A University of Galway academic has been appointed to a major UN role in a historic moment for Ireland this week. Charles Spillane has been appointed Chief Scientist of the Food and Agriculture ...

Barham Salih, who fought against Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq and later served as president, was chosen to lead the U.N.

A paramilitary attack in April was one of the most brutal of Sudan’s civil war. Now, hunger is spreading as Western aid cuts ...

It might be early but a Siena Poll of New York State registered voters showed Hochul ahead of both Stefanik and Blakeman.

The United States and Japan’s vague, ahistorical version of the “one China” policy is inflaming tensions with Beijing.

The Dayton Accords were not perfect. But they stopped the Bosnian war, enabled accountability for atrocities, and offered ...

This document analyzes the legality of these strikes under international law and explains why international human rights ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

In 1946, liberal democracy had survived fascism but faced new pressures from communism, decolonization, and internal critics. As the United Nations debated universal human rights, thinkers like Karl ...

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