Asia The long read: Host communities and refugees in Southeast Asia: A workshop report December 19, 2019 0 Image Credit: Hue 1972 by manhai/ Flickr ; Licence: 2.0 Generic (CC By 2.0) Written by Itty Abraham. In May 2019 a workshop was convened at…
Gender India and LGBTQ rights at the United Nations after the demise of Section 377 July 16, 2019 0 Written by Sohini Chatterjee Image Credit: British High Commission, New Delhi/Flicker; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 When in 2003, Brazil – for the first time in the…
Belt and Road Initiative Are Russia and China revisionist states? June 11, 2019 0 Written by Jeanne L. Wilson. Image Credit: P5 Press Conference at the United Nations by United States Mission Geneva/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. In the past…
ASEAN Peacekeeping: An underutilised area of sub-regional security April 9, 2019 0 Written by Nicole Jenne. Over the past decade, there has been a convergence in the policies of the ten states of the Association of Southeast…
Burma/Myanmar How the United Nations failed the Rohingya people March 7, 2018 0 Written by Hammad Zamurrad. For many, the United Nations (UN) is an indispensable international organization which operates at the core of the emerging global governance…
Climate Change India at the 2017 UN General Assembly October 11, 2017 0 Written by Karthik Nachiappan. India’s diplomatic engagement at the recently concluded U.N. General Assembly is vividly captured by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s address in…
Asia Disaster, Development and Urban Risk: a comment on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction March 25, 2015 0 By Pauline Eadie The World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) was held in Sendai, Japan from 14-18 March 2015. The United Nations Office for…
