The EU’s 1 billion-euro gift will hurt Lebanon and its people | Opinions
Last month, the European Union (EU) unveiled a 1 billion-euro ($1.07bn) aid package for the Lebanese state. During a visit to Beirut, European Commission President…
Haiti needs a Green New Deal, not another military intervention | Opinions
Earlier this year, my paternal grandmother passed away in northern Haiti at the age of 94. Although my father wanted to attend her funeral, he…
Spivak, politics of pronunciation, and the search for a just democracy | Opinions
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the noted postcolonial scholar and global public intellectual, is perhaps best known for her piece, “Can the subaltern speak?,” in which she…
Why India’s election results bring hope, even in defeat | India Election 2024
On Saturday, India’s six-week-long elections ended with polls projecting a landslide for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). BJP leaders, inspired by Prime Minister Narendra…
There is a measure of desperation in Biden’s ceasefire plan | Israel-Palestine conflict
On Friday, US President Joe Biden outlined a ceasefire proposal for the war in Gaza. The plan is comprised of three stages in which Israel…
It is not ‘ethnic cleansing’, it is genocide | Israel-Palestine conflict
Over the past eight months, like many people around the world, I have been starting my day by checking the news from Gaza and the…
On this year’s Global Day of Parents, I still long to be with my children | Opinions
My country, Rwanda, has long enjoyed a reputation as a nation committed to advancing women’s rights and protecting families. This commitment, however, is deeply selective.…
Universities v protest: A letter from a lesser alumnus | Protests
We have always been here. At the university mobilising the police in its persecution of anti-colonial thought. At the suspensions and “talking to” of anti-colonial…
Darker days lay ahead for opposition, minorities after India’s election | India Election 2024
For many commentators, an unequivocal victory for Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the foregone conclusion of the ongoing Indian…
The recognition of Palestine is undermined by support for harmful policies | Opinions
On May 28, Ireland, Norway, and Spain announced they are formally recognising Palestine as a state. The move was welcomed by Palestinians and condemned by the Israeli…
Big Pharma’s focus on profit is behind medicine shortages, superbug threat | Health
What happens when we run out of medicines? Medical authorities around the world are pondering this question as they struggle with shortages of a range…
Is a rules-based international order truly possible? | ICC
ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders threaten to upend the established system of Western impunity. At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, which sought to craft…
Remembering Palestinian journalist Amna Homaid | Israel-Palestine conflict
On April 24, Amna Homaid’s torn body lay in the rubble of a house in Shati camp, in the Western part of Gaza city, as…
Watching the watchdogs: The US media and intergenerational fault lines | Israel-Palestine conflict
As Israel continues to wage its genocidal war on Gaza, a fault line in American society is becoming increasingly more pronounced. University students are challenging…
How the Arab world will enable Palestine to win its war of liberation | Israel-Palestine conflict
As long as the Arab world remains steadfast and clear that the US must stop blocking the two-state solution, an independent, sovereign UN member state…
Healthcare in Syria is at risk of collapse | Health
On April 30, the European Union’s eighth annual conference on “Supporting the future of Syria and the region” in Brussels started with a day of…
The ICC is not in the business of peacemaking, but it can deliver justice | ICC
Whenever the International Criminal Court (ICC) opens an investigation into an ongoing war, versions of the following question will inevitably be asked: Does the pursuit…
In Darfur, justice will be key to sustainable peace | Conflict
On May 6, 2004, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report alleging that the Sudanese government and its allied “Janjaweed” militias had committed systemic attacks…
The theatrics of genocidal impunity | Israel-Palestine conflict
On May 1, a draft resolution was submitted to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to declare July 11 a day of remembrance for the…
The neoliberal populism of Milei and Meloni | Opinions
When far-right “outsider” Javier Milei was elected Argentina’s president in November, hard-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was the first European leader to congratulate him.…