United Nations member states have removed Iran from a key UN women’s rights group just months after it joined. The...
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Ukraine: The Morning After
by Mary Wald My neighbor is a twentysomething woman from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her family is still there. When I asked her...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1931 – 2021
by Mary Wald He's left us. The last time I saw Archbishop Tutu, we sat together on the deck of a house in...
Detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi hit with new charge
Police in Myanmar have filed a new charge against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday, as the...
Nobel Peace Laureate Satyarthi on the Global Campaign to End Child Labor
The United Nations has named 2021 the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. That's as the...
Artists shine a light on child labor in New York streets
Children’s faces appear locked in the jaws of a sinister factory robot or warily peeping out behind New York landmarks...
Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar democracy icon who fell from grace
She was once seen as a beacon for human rights - a principled activist who gave up her freedom to challenge the...
2020 Nobel Peace Prize Award Presentation to World Food Programme
The Nobel Peace Prize Award Presentation was conducted in a virtual ceremony in 2020, from World Food Programme...
Former Pres. Jimmy Carter responds to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory
Former President Jimmy Carter congratulated President-Elect Joe Biden for his victory over President Donald Trump. In...
More than 700 economists including Nobel laureates oppose Trump reelection
Over 1000 economists, including several Nobel Prize laureates, have come out against President Trump's...
Ramos-Horta and Yunus: Vaccines with a global common good guarantee
We are in the grip of a historic pandemic. The novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 threatening the whole...
2020 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to World Food Programme
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its "efforts...