The recent abduction of students and teachers happened in an area at the epicenter of a secessionist insurgency in Cameroon’s Anglophone region.
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The lessons from New Caledonia have implications for independence movements in other places like Catalonia, Iraqi Kurdistan, and West Papua.
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In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council resolution 1325, perhaps one of the boldest steps the global community can make is to truly upend how it approaches peace: to move away from ideas of merely including women in broken processes, and to move towards creating necessary systemic changes, built on and unleashing women’s leadership.
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As we sift through the burning embers of the presidential campaign, what are some of Jair Bolsonaro’s key foreign policy priorities?
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Current debates on the challenges brought about by xenophobes and Euroskeptics across the EU overlook the fact that, until now, their ideas and tactics have gone largely unchallenged in an organized sense.
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A number of developments have emerged over the past few years indicating that the WPS agenda is under stress, if not in peril.
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The UN’s special political missions are paid for out of the UN’s regular budget, but paying for most peacekeeping missions involving police and military contingents is much more complicated.
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Critics of the notion that human rights are universal often assert that human rights originated in the West, reflect Western interests, and are a weapon of cultural hegemony or a new form of imperialism.
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Avoiding the extreme flows of migrants as experienced in 2015 remains a top concern irrespective of the measures employed, not least to contain the rising tide of populism rooted in anti-migrant sentiment in Europe.
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If UN reform is about making the UN fit for purpose, then it only makes sense that reforms be made to strengthen the human rights pillar.
