A collection of 13 posts
NGO Monitor founder Gerald Steinberg on how Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and the UN's "civil society" experiment were hijacked — and why journalists still buy it.
The next UN leader will take office at a time when the international body is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of purpose.
By enacting the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into provincial law, B.C. effectively handed veto power over policy-making to First Nations lobbyists.
The transatlantic slave trade was a monstrous crime against humanity. Yet it represented just one example of an ancient evil that spanned many civilisations.
While Iran, Israel, and Gaza have dominated headlines, a bloody power struggle among Sudanese warlords grinds on.
Too often, the UN’s valuable field work is overshadowed by cynical political posturing. As a result, collecting annual dues from member states has become more difficult.
The first lady’s surreal act of geopolitical theatre did little to explain how the ongoing US–Israeli military campaign against Iran’s brutal theocrats will make the world safer.
Even if unsuccessful, Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign to acquire Greenland threatens to undermine America’s reputation as a champion of western security, freedom, and co-operation.
The UN Rapporteur’s latest report channels a single-minded contempt for the Jewish state.
The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism.
It is time for democratic countries to accept that the existing system is broken and that they must develop a new global security architecture.
Ukraine has therefore pursued multiple legal avenues in response to the aggression.
Western nations must not continue to contribute to a UN agency that is effectively controlled by a terrorist organization.