Do not ignore Mali’s multifaceted humanitarian catastrophe | Humanitarian Crises
“Each year, we witness a further drop in rainfall – which translates to a drop in produce – resulting in us not having enough food…
The Paralympics are supposed to be fair and inclusive, but often fail to be | Opinions
The Summer Paralympic Games in Paris are now coming to a close. Over the past 10 days, more than 1,000 athletes with disabilities competed in…
Mpox and the dangers of treating some lives as disposable | Health
It has been a year since the first outbreak of a new more deadly variant of the mpox virus was first reported in central Africa.…
Scholasticide must not be normalised | Education
On August 10, the Israeli bombardment of al-Tabin School in Gaza City killed more than 100 people sheltering there, including many children. This was one…
Netanyahu and the Israeli protesters are on the same genocidal page | Israel-Palestine conflict
In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip – a 51-day affair that ultimately killed 2,251 Palestinians,…
The UK’s partial arms ban on Israel is not enough | Opinions
On Monday, the British government halted 30 licences that would have allowed British companies to supply military parts to Israel. Those include components for fighter…
Gaza has shown European universities are no longer places for free inquiry | Opinions
Jamaican-British academic Stuart Hall once said “the university is a critical institution or it is nothing”. Indeed, universities have an important role to play in…
The danger of ‘pro-EU’ Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans | European Union
Over the past few years, attitudes towards accession to the European Union in Western Balkan candidate states have been increasingly negative. In countries like Serbia,…
‘Sex work’ advocacy in California is harming children | Child Rights
In recent decades, so-called “sex workers’ rights” campaigners working to decriminalise pimping and buying of sex have attached themselves, just like trans rights activists, to…
The Beijing Declaration is a key step to resolve the Palestinian question | Opinions
The Palestinian question is at the core of the Middle East issue. Over the past years, China has put forward proposals and taken action to…
The West Bank: Israel’s other genocidal war in Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict
On Wednesday, Israel launched a major military assault on the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army deployed hundreds of soldiers, armoured vehicles, bulldozers, drones and…
How Germany burned its ‘bridge to the Islamic world’ | Opinions
In March 2003, the German Foreign Office established an online platform, named Qantara, which means “bridge” in classical Arabic, in response to the 9/11 attacks…
The US is Israel’s accomplice, not a ceasefire mediator | Israel-Palestine conflict
On July 21, 2006, nine days into the 34-day Israeli war on Lebanon that killed 1,200 people, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opined that “an immediate ceasefire without…
Kamala Harris and fortifying Black-Palestinian solidarity | US Election 2024
Over the past month, as Kamala Harris’s campaign for the US presidency has gained momentum, hopes she would take a strong stance on the genocide in Gaza have dwindled.…
The next US president should not take on both Russia and China | US Election 2024
As the presidential race in the United States is heating up, the two candidates – Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump –…
The Muslim American vote matters and it can no longer be taken for granted | US Election 2024
As the United States presidential election approaches, the race to attract voters has intensified. Among the different constituencies the Democrats and Republicans are battling over,…
US ruling party focuses on threat from opposition at grand convention | US Election 2024
This week the ruling Democratic Party in the oil-rich North American republic of the United States, one of the world’s top banana exporters, held a…
Under the radar, Ireland is helping illegal Israeli settlements do business | Israel-Palestine conflict
Ireland has been called the most pro-Palestinian country in Europe. So this might surprise you: at the same time – largely under the radar – it…
Palestinians are being dehumanised to justify occupation and genocide | Israel-Palestine conflict
It has been more than a month since a former president of the United States, Donald Trump, used my identity as an insult in a…
Solidarity with Palestine must be about decolonisation, not just ceasefire | Israel-Palestine conflict
It has been more than 10 months now of Israel waging its genocidal war on Gaza. Throughout this time, mobilisation in solidarity with the Palestinian…