United Nations

  • Dec 20, 2017
  • 2 min read

Damascus could take gradual control of aid access

Humanitarian organisations can still send in supplies without government permission -- but the climate is changing

Syria
  • Dec 18, 2017
  • 2 min read

Losing hope in peace, Palestinians lack alternatives

Despite widespread support in the UN over Jerusalem, Palestinians have few international legal options

Palestinians
  • Dec 4, 2017
  • 7 min read

Croat war criminal’s death will shake Balkans

The ICTY ruling against six Bosnian Croat war criminals and one’s public suicide have shocked and rattled the Balkans

Balkans
  • Nov 17, 2017
  • 8 min read

Prospects for global climate governance in 2018

Climate negotiations next year seek to write technical rules and bring national policies in line with emissions cuts

International
  • Nov 6, 2017
  • 2 min read

Funding and election threaten Colombia-UN coca deal

A new international agreement reaffirms Bogota’s commitment to tackling coca, but doing so will be slow and expensive

Colombia
  • Nov 3, 2017
  • 7 min read

Developing world will push for climate action at COP23

Two years after the Paris Agreement’s debut, US withdrawal is putting pressure on countries for more climate action

United Nations
  • Oct 31, 2017
  • 7 min read

Haftar could scupper new UN Libya talks

Talks between Libya's rival parliaments, hosted in neighbouring Tunisia, were adjourned on October 21

Libya
  • Oct 24, 2017
  • 7 min read

Natural disasters’ economic toll will grow in ASEAN

Recent floods in South-east Asia question the region’s disaster preparedness

ASEAN