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Image Description: A child drags two empty water containers across a sandy road This month, the United Nations announced that Yemen is in the midst of the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with 24.1 million people in need of aid and protection. The problem has been escalating on the back of a five-year-long civil […]
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Image Credit: AMISOM Public Information Earlier this month, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva passed a resolution to prolong the mandate of a UN inquiry into the worsening political, economic, and social crisis in Burundi. The message is clear: The Burundian government cannot go on denying that its security apparatus tolerates and indirectly sanctions […]
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Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate political activist, is to start studying at Oxford in 2017. She met her offer to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at Lady Margaret Hall, starting in October. She tweeted that she was “So excited to go to Oxford!!” on the morning of August 17th, as thousands of […]
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In politics, human life ironically seems to be of little interest; the response of the USA and Japan to the UN resolution outlawing nuclear weapons last week served as a painful confirmation of what years of raging against Western history textbooks, with their shockingly brief allusions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had made me suspect. The […]
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Last year in September, over 100,000 people marched through the streets of London for a rally in support of refugees. The event was organised by the charity Solidarity with Refugees, which organised another march a year on this September welcoming refugees. Rosalind Ereira is the founder of Solidarity with Refugees. Her involvement with both marches […]
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It was last week, during his visit to Oxford to deliver a lecture at the Department of Politics and International Relations, that I had the chance to meet Michael Møller, current Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. An experienced civil servant with over 35 years experience at the United Nations, Mr Møller […]
Continue ReadingDespite the violence we all see on TV, we live in a remarkably peaceful age. The global economy is more integrated than ever before, and major wars between states are rare. Though it is dangerous to guarantee anything in international relations, the prospect of a global conflict seems more distant than at any point in […]
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