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Late last month, we marked Menstrual Hygiene Awareness Day, an important date around the world for advocates like myself who have spent years working to…
Late last month, we marked Menstrual Hygiene Awareness Day, an important date around the world for advocates like myself who have spent years working to…
It has been more than 14 years since the civil war in Sri Lanka came to an end. Although a semblance of peace has returned…
“Bombing Voronezh” is an expression in the Russian language that roughly translates to hurting yourself while trying to do damage to someone else. On June 24, language met reality…
On June 24, Moscow was put under a state of emergency for the first time since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And while…
As a child, when the time for the annual Hajj would approach, I would often hear the same story from my father. He would tell…
My American-Palestinian cousins, the Awad family, have a routine for whenever they come to visit us in Jerusalem. They try to avoid flying into Ben…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited Beijing last week, where he met Chinese President Xi Jinping. Abbas was the first Arab President to visit China since…
In 2014, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi first addressed the United Nations General Assembly, he arrived with a mission: to propose a resolution that…
It has been a month now since Black Brazilian forward Vinícius Jr suffered yet another disgusting episode of racist abuse during a match in Spain.…
The disparities in coverage and global interest are unmistakably stark. In the last week, the unquiet seas have folded two vessels into their depths. One…
Amid political turmoil, the British government is telling the country’s people that it wants to “stop the boats” – that is, they want to stop people entering…
Throughout Europe and Central Asia, health systems are stretched like never before. Pushed to their limit by the COVID-19 pandemic, health and care workers are…
Over the past decade or so, signs that the American-dominated world order is crumbling have become increasingly more visible. The rise of China – boosted…
When Father’s Day would approach, I would often tease my dad that every day is a Father’s Day. He would laugh. On Father’s Day itself,…
Facing a sixth consecutive failed rainy season, countries in the Horn of Africa are staring at the region’s worst drought in at least 70 years.…
In September 2006, I paid my first visit to Lebanon, arriving 34 days after the 34-day summer assault by the Israeli military that had killed some…
Democracy is under threat around the world. One of the most elaborate multidimensional measures of democracy, the V-Dem Institute in Sweden, notes that today, 72 percent of…
On June 12, after a prolonged illness, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi passed away. A controversial figure in Italian politics, Berlusconi continues to divide Italians…
It happens only in India that even a train accident is used as an opportunity to demonise Muslims. Just after the recent terrible train crash…
Images of pipe-wielding and stone-throwing Serb militant nationalists assaulting NATO peacekeepers in the northern Kosovo town of Zvecan in late May put the Balkan country in…