International issues

The following is an email that Professor Steven Starr, the former director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, sent out last night. It contains useful graphics and a reminder that today is the last day of an era…

During the COVID pandemic, I published a book titled The White-West: A Look in the Mirror. At the time, I did not imagine that only a few years later the dynamics I described would become so stark, so violent, and…

Colombian President Gustavo Petro traveled to the United States this week for a highly anticipated meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, marking a thaw in relations after a year of public clashes between the two leaders.…

Behind this architecture of power and crossed vetoes lie concrete bodies. In Sudan, women have been systematically used as spoils of war: gang rapes, sexual slavery, abductions, and forced pregnancies form part of a pattern documented by humanitarian organizations and…

Human Rights Watch has warned that the impact of the policies promoted by the administration of Donald Trump is not limited to the territory of the United States. On the contrary, it has generated a spillover effect that is being…

In January 2026, following a series of shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean that left nearly one thousand people dead or missing, the situation of migrants in Tunisia entered a new and more severe phase. These deaths did not occur in…

The recent reform of the Penal Code in Mali marks a critical turning point for human rights in the country and, in particular, for the situation of LGBTIQ+ people. By explicitly criminalizing same-sex relationships, the State has not merely introduced…

On February 2, the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) and the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP) released a statement announcing the initiation of legal proceedings by the judicial authorities of East Timor against the Myanmar junta, including its leader, Min Aung…

By Masum Parvez Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) In the rapidly evolving global order of the 21st century, despite unprecedented leaps in technology and economy, a profound lack of trust has emerged regarding the ethical standards of leadership. In recent years, leaked…

Speculation about a possible U.S. military attack on Iran has once again captured global attention. Warships repositioned, air power signaled, and rhetoric sharpened—these are familiar scenes in international politics. Yet history urges caution against taking such signals at face value.…