By Andra Petruta The conflict in Mali is no different from other civil wars taking place around the world. An article published in Foreign Policy last month pointed out how instability in Mali has been ignored by the international community for almost a year, taking the Security Council over half a year to put the …
By Emanuel Ingold. Sanctions against Iran In December 2012, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the Iranian people and the international public that the economic sanctions employed against his country were having devastating impacts on its domestic economy. American economic sanctions against Iran have been in place since the revolution in 1979. However, in 2006, multilateral United …
By Lisa Jörke It was weeks ago that the conflict in Northern Mali between armed rebel groups and troops of the Malian military caused a considerable stir in the media; weeks ago that the French President, François Hollande, announced that French military forces would be deployed in an intervention in Mali, and they successfully managed …
By Pras Boolaky Operation Pillar of Defense was launched on 14th November 2012 by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) with the objective of stopping indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza. The operation started with the killing of Ahmed Jabri, leader of the military wing of the Hamas government. Hamas, being the ruling political party in Gaza, …
Emanuel Ingold provides an analysis of the politicisation of human rights in the United Nations By Emanuel Ingold. In November 2012, the United States was re-elected to the 47-state United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC, hereafter Council). International news organisations did not give its re-election a lot of coverage. Supposedly this is because the human …
By Prithvi Hirani There is no disputing that the story of 14-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai is not ordinary for her age and context. The honesty and innocence of her voice/blog is perhaps something that can only be captured by a child. For me, Malala symbolises justice, innocence, and courage. These are the qualities that …
By Ramsha Khan. ‘Sustainable Development’: a pair of buzzwords that have been ringing in our ears for the last twenty or so years. It has reached the point where they have developed into a mantra by those passionate to do their part in creating lasting relief for the billion and more people living in poverty, and …
By Scott Edwards . April 30th this year marked eight years since the formation of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission to Haiti (MINUSTAH). Continued instability, a poor development record and the major infrastructural setback represented by the 2010 earthquake suggest that the peacekeeping mission is likely to be extended past its October 2012 deadline, with a UN …
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