The Gaza Strip is facing a dire humanitarian crisis, with escalating hostilities, including bombardment and ground operations, exacerbating acute food insecurity to catastrophic levels. Between November and December 2023, over 90 percent of the population, roughly 2.08 million people, experienced high levels of food insecurity, with over 40 percent in Emergency (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 4) and over 15 percent in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). In the projected period, between December 8, 2023, and February 7, 2024, the entire population of the Gaza Strip, around 2.2 million people, faces acute food insecurity and is classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse),

While politicians raced to publish words of comfort and support, their movement to action was rather slow.

Even reaching this point has come with significant hurdles for Arab women.

Taking symbolic and tactical cues from similar demonstrations in Thailand and Hong Kong, the protesters of Myanmar have seemingly joined the ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ of Southeast Asian pro-democracy movements, an informal coalition that has grown online since 2020.

The origins of the current protests date back to the Green Revolution in the 1960s, when the government introduced subsidies for farmers and implemented laws to regulate the price of crops.

According to the UN, North Korea consistently ranks among the worst nations in the world for widespread gross human rights violations.

A central district court in the South Korean capital of Seoul sentenced Cho Ju-bin, a 25-year-old man, to 40 years in prison for operating an online sex trafficking ring.

The initial backlash was directed at the prime minister, who gained control of the government after a coup d’état in 2014 and has since won an election held under controversial circumstances in 2019.

Abiy is not the first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to undertake actions that contrast the goals of the Peace Prize.

In France, a moment of chaos during a council meeting served as an example of younger feminists clashing with older generations of the movement.

Presidential authoritarianism, despite bringing benefits to Rwanda in this case, should not be emulated as a strategy elsewhere in Africa.

Over 200 asylum seekers, mostly from Cameroon, were transferred to Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas in preparation for the flight.

The project was shelved following intense backlash from politicians and citizens across Germany.

For weeks now, footage has circulated from the snowy evergreen forests of Wet'suwet'en territory, where land defenders of the Indigenous Wet'suwet'en nation have held their ground against the RCMP in opposition to a proposed pipeline.

Devon, Manager of Program Development at Rainbow Railroad, discussed the challenges facing LGBTQI refugees, and her organization’s efforts to help them, in a lecture hosted by Spectrum at the University of Toronto on January 14th.

Utilizing a mix of “Chinese bureaucratese” and “Orwellian doublespeak,” detainees are called “students” who officials aim to “graduate” from training programs.

Foreign Policy reports that protests in Hong Kong reached an all-time high last weekend as an unarmed protester was shot with live rounds by Hong Kong police, and a Beijing supporter was set on fire.

There is still a long road to universal equity and inclusion.

Mismanagement of public funds and failed policies have led to Venezuela’s economic constraints, food and medicine shortage, the collapse of public services and a sustained increase in violence.

Denmark is giving the Scandinavian reputation a run for its money.