The deeper one delves into the issue, the more Iraqis face injustice and the more peculiar the case of the Danish government appears.
The Associated Press | Fisnik Abrashi | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
KABUL -- Insurgents struck the Afghan capital two days before national elections, firing rockets or mortars at the presidential palace and unleashing ...
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
In essence, if we avoided a disproportionate response, we would be doing what I believe we should have done after 9/11. We didn't and look what happened.
Joseph Freeman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Iraqi students Fouad and Ahmed feel thrilled to traverse the unknown landscape of an enormous country, a place whose people and policies have had such an impact on their unlikely fates.
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 09.04.2009 | World
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to name and shame countries and insurgents groups engaged in conflicts that...
Inter Press Service | Posted 08.30.2009 | World
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 30 (IPS) - Somalia, a perpetually violence-prone country described as one of the world's failed states, may go t...
WSJ | JOE LAURIA and STEVE STECKLOW | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
As the Obama administration implements a new U.S. strategy toward the United Nations, it's working with a U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, who is ...
The Real News | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
The Real News heads to the UN to find out what exactly is being discussed there to provoke such a response from the West.
William Bradley | Posted 08.12.2009 | Media
American media, especially cable TV news, is moving more into infotainment mode, stuck on a few areas. Geopolitics has never been its strong suit, and political coverage is mostly focused on food fights.
Sharon L. Camp | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
World Population Day serves as an urgent reminder that, even amidst a global recession and tight budgets, governments must boost investments in global health -- especially the health of mothers.
BBC | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
The Pope has called for reform of the United Nations and financial bodies, giving them the "real teeth" needed to tackle economic and social injustice...
Dan Silverstein | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business
Nestle has taken specific and measurable steps to achieve sustainable, shared value.
World Vision | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
While non-G8 donors are responsible for a quarter of the total African aid increase since 2005, and are delivering on their side of the deal, aid from the G8 countries has actually fallen.
Christiana Wyly | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
Without coordinated efforts by developed nations to help the world's poorest nations, 100 million people may fall into extreme poverty each year for the foreseeable future.
The Washington Post | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
The U.N.'s top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try th...
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration is reviving efforts to have the United States sign onto a global children's rights treaty ratified by ...
David Vines | Posted 07.23.2009 | New York
As mass protesting and violence continue to rage through the streets of Tehran, Iranian-Americans and sympathizers gathered at the U.N. Saturday to demonstrate on behalf of Iranian freedom.
Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.21.2009 | World
Kadivar is one of Iran's most respected clerics. His words are powerful because he is able to counter the religious arguments of the Ayatollah with his own sound religious and theological logic.
Kumi Naidoo | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
The financial and economic crisis is hitting the poor the worst.
Bradley Burston | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
Even if a recount should topple Ahmadinejad, Mousavi is firmly on record as supporting the nuclear program, and opposing changes aimed at barring Iran from using it to produce weaponry.
Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.16.2009 | World
This is a first person account from the filmmaker James Longley, who was violently detained in Tehran.
AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green
BONN, Germany — U.N. climate delegates completed their first rough sketch of a new global warming agreement Friday, a draft replete with gaps an...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
World Environment Day, which falls on June 5 every year, was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 -- shortly after the US instituted Earth D...
TIME | Randy James Thursday, Jun. 04, 2009 | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
Specifics aside, the report is doubtlessly intended to haunt world leaders as they gather in Copenhagen later this year to negotiate a successor to th...
Yasmin Zaher | Posted 09.19.2009 | World