UN Articles

Genocide against Iraq’s Kurds shows that more than words are required in Syria ------------------------- I’ll start in an unusual way – by quoting some lyrics in rock band Extreme's biggest hit – ‘More Than Words’: ‘More than words is all you have to do to make it...

Food banks shame us all – it’s time to hold the government to account. In austerity Britain, children are going to bed hungry and families are facing the distress and humiliation of queuing for emergency food parcels. The coalition government says ‘we’re all in this...

As we get closer to June, excitement is building in the global environment community about the UN Sustainable Development conference in Rio. And that is precisely the problem! As long as Rio+20 remains the hot topic for eco-lobbyists, it will remain profoundly worthy;...

As the decade-long mission in Afghanistan comes to an end, now might be the time to start asking what the lessons are from the Nato mission for future humanitarian intervention efforts and specifically how important it is to have an exit plan for future mission...