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...
Jul 8, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Dominic O’Sullivan Separatist or radically inclusive? What does New Zealand’s He Puapua report really say about the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? For many New Zealanders, He Puapua came shrouded in controversy from the moment it...
Mar 3, 2021 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By Morgan Bazilian, Deb Niemeier, Edward R. Carr, Kristie Ebi & Walt Meier The United States is formally back in the Paris climate agreement as of Feb. 19, 2021, nearly four years after former President Donald Trump announced it would pull out. We asked five...
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...
Aug 11, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Ben Goldson Once capable of taking a leading role in the fight against disease, the World Health Organization has struggled to replicate its early successes in recent decades, including in its response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, following...
Jan 30, 2020 | Politics & Society
Last week, the man who would have become the first official climate change refugee, Ioane Teitiota, lost his case to avoid deportation at the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Teitiota claimed refugee status saying climate change had affected his right to life...
Jan 16, 2020 | Politics & Society
In 2015, the United Nations passed the sustainable development goals with targets for poverty reduction, economic development, environmental protection, and political empowerment. How were these goals chosen? Has the UN been achieving its goals? How is sustainability...
Sep 24, 2018 | Politics & Society
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. How has it changed the world as we know it? In 1948 the Declaration was signed to prevent the horrors of WWII from re-occurring. It set up human rights standards for all and is the world’s...
Aug 27, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Danny Bradlow Danny Bradlow explores the legacy of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Kofi Annan (80) was an important historical figure who played a critical role in many key events of the 1990s and 2000s. His death is therefore an opportunity to...
Jun 28, 2017 | Politics & Society
The United Nations is facing multiple stressors, but among the largest is the new President of the United States, Donald Trump, who has expressed hostility toward the organisation. What does the future hold for the United Nations? What does it mean for the programmes...