Dec 18, 2023 | Featured, Politics & Society
Punita Chowbey, Sheffield Hallam University Photo by Ibrahim Rifath on Unsplash In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations (UN) identified what it called a “shadow pandemic” of domestic violence against women. The UN includes in its definition of...
Nov 3, 2023 | Featured, Politics & Society
As the Israel-Gaza crisis worsens and the UN remains impotent, what are NZ’s diplomatic options? Words by Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Robert G. Patman, University of Otago Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash Global security involves...
Apr 6, 2023 | Featured, Politics & Society
Photo by NOAA on Unsplash Jacqueline Peel, The University of Melbourne and Zoe Nay, The University of Melbourne The United Nations has just backed a landmark resolution on climate justice. Last week, the UN General Assembly supported a Pacific-led resolution asking...
Oct 3, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Stephen Hoadley “It is clear to me that the world in the 21st century will be better off with the United Nations as its premier international institution than without it.” The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco on 26 June 1945 and came...