International issues

Washington brands Nicolás Maduro a dictator, celebrates Volodymyr Zelenskyy as democratic, and sponsors María Corina Machado to achieve regime change in Venezuela rather than promote genuine democracy. By Roger D. Harris Within the narrow spectrum of establishment punditry, “dictator” functions…

The world is not entering a grey zone of international law. It is leaving it. What is taking shape is not an anomaly, nor a “moment of tension,” nor an exception justified by geopolitical circumstances: it is the normalization of…

11 December 2025, Quezon City. On December 10, Human Rights Day, the EcoWaste Coalition had the opportunity to share its advocacy campaign on mercury in skin lightening products at a side event on “Toxic Skin Bleaching: A Growing Global Health…

Addressing the Human Rights Day celebration, organised by the National Human Rights Commission, in New Delhi on Wednesday, the President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu said that Human Rights Day is an occasion to remind us that the universal human…

The Executive Director Catherine Russell highlighted escalating global humanitarian needs and the severe impact of funding cuts on children. UNICEF is appealing for $7.66 billion to reach 73 million children in 133 countries next year.  Friends, partners, colleagues, thank you…

Kindness, a Universal Bond that Nourishes Humanity Kindness is one of the simplest yet most profound human gestures: sincerely wishing the good of another. It takes a thousand forms—listening, empathy, attention, respect—and takes on different hues depending on cultures, life…

On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly, meeting in Paris, proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration, which emerged after more than 100 million deaths in the two world wars, separated by a mere 20 years,…

In New Delhi, President Vladimir Putin, alongside Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan, took part in the launch ceremony of the RT India TV channel. The TV channel will operate from a new studio complex in New Delhi, marking a…

In the shadowed streets of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, Israeli police stormed the UNRWA headquarters on December 8, 2025, lowered the blue United Nations flag, and hoisted the Israeli one—seizing property and cutting off communications. This was no mere raid:…

Awareness of the threats that NATO poses along these three fronts and the division of labor between the top five states therein – Finland, Sweden, Poland, Romania, and Turkiye – enables Russia to devise the most effective countermeasures and propose…