The international community are becoming increasingly critical of Australia’s offshore immigration detention centres. However, have we gone too far to be able to identify why the international community perceives this […]
The international community are becoming increasingly critical of Australia’s offshore immigration detention centres. However, have we gone too far to be able to identify why the international community perceives this […]
On 24 October 2015, celebrations took place around the world to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. The day marked the anniversary of the entry into force of […]
Weather anomalies, El Niño, drought, mass coral bleaching and the worst hurricane on record are symptomatic of the effects of climate change upon our warming planet. With the Climate Change […]
Over 1100 Sydney-siders gathered inside Australia’s largest cathedral last month to commemorate the United Nations International Day of Peace with an interfaith service. This service, held at St Mary’s, was […]
We live in a perplexing time. Perhaps there is none other who recognises that better than Associate Professor Wayne Quilliam, 2009/10 NAIDOC Artist of the Year. But that has only […]
According to the Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, it is time that the international community stopped neglecting their humanitarian duty, put their […]
At seventy years old, the United Nations has had eight Secretaries-General – all men. As Ban Ki-Moon’s tenure comes to an end, there is a growing sense in New York […]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonia Guterres, continues to appeal to the EU and the United States, citing refugee resettlement as an international issue of burden sharing. With […]
UN experts denounce televised reprisals against human rights defenders in Venezuela
In quake-stricken Nepal, ‘emergency is not over yet,’ warns senior UN relief official