Israel has taken human shields to a whole new criminal level | Israel-Palestine conflict
The use of human shields in war is not a new phenomenon. Militaries have forced civilians to serve as human shields for centuries. Yet, despite this long…
For US universities, Arab and Muslim lives do not matter | Opinions
On October 7, the Tahrir Coalition, a union of pro-Palestinian organisations at the University of Michigan, posted on social media what it said was a…
Left unchecked, Lebanon’s displacement crisis could tear the country apart | Israel attacks Lebanon
Lebanon faces a threat just as destructive as the bombs raining down on its cities: a displacement crisis that risks tearing the country apart from…
Diego Garcia remains a dark British-American secret in the Indian Ocean | Opinions
When the governments of Mauritius and the United Kingdom issued a joint declaration at the beginning of this month that they had “reached an historic…
The Israeli ‘General’s Plan’ for northern Gaza is unlikely to succeed | Israel-Palestine conflict
On October 5, Israel launched a ground military operation, demanding the evacuation of Palestinians residing in Beit Hanoon, Beit Lahiya, Jabalia refugee camp, and Jabalia…
A sustainable global universal basic income can be done. Here is how | Business and Economy
In September, Pope Francis attended the World Meeting of Popular Movements, an initiative he launched 10 years ago as a platform for grassroots organisations to…
Zionist ‘safety patrols’ on campus have little concern for Jewish safety | Protests
Last academic year saw university students across North American campuses form Gaza solidarity encampments to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and their universities’ financial…
The ICC’s credibility is hanging by a thread | Israel-Palestine conflict
Upon the entry into force of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 2002, a palpable hope arose that the era of impunity…
Israel’s mass detention of Palestinians is aimed to break our spirit | Israel-Palestine conflict
On November 28, Israeli soldiers stopped my car at the Jaba checkpoint in the occupied West Bank and kidnapped me. I spent the following 253…
Israel’s forgotten terror | Israel-Palestine conflict
The International Criminal Court’s (ICJ) January finding of a “plausible genocide” in Gaza, and subsequent ruling that Israel is responsible for an apartheid system in…
Gisele Pelicot is a hero | Women’s Rights
Gisele Pelicot is a hero. Her husband, Dominique Pelicot, has recently admitted in a French court that he drugged her to sleep, raped her, and…
Why Palestinians won’t leave their land | Opinions
Over the past year, Israel’s genocidal violence has officially killed nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Estimates put the real death toll at more than 180,000. Simultaneously, the Israeli…
Al-Shabab in Somalia: Bullets and bombs can’t bury ideologies | Opinions
In August, Somalia’s prime minister, Hamza Abdi Barre, held a town-hall meeting in the Somali capital Mogadishu to mark the two-year anniversary of the formation…
Why Europe’s leadership wants war | Russia-Ukraine war
Anxiety and anger about the future of the European Union has been on the rise for some time now. The union has been in the…
The Global South’s poor should not be subsidising the IMF | International Monetary Fund
Today, the world is confronting a “polycrisis” – many dire crises occurring simultaneously, reinforcing and feeding into each other, that are inseparable. Global South countries…
US military action in the Middle East is not making Israel safer | Israel-Palestine conflict
On October 1, Iran launched a massive aerial attack on Israel in retaliation for the assassinations of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders and some Iranian…
Israel destroyed my university, but not my desire for an education | Israel-Palestine conflict
I started my bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) in 2021. I was very proud of myself for making…
Why medical support for safe abortion is growing in a post-Roe world | Women’s Rights
In June 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned its own decision from 1973 in the landmark Roe v Wade case, which until then protected…
Alongside Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, hip-hop culture will also be on trial | Music
Earlier this month, the world was shocked by the arrest of one of the most successful music moguls in the history of rap, Sean “Diddy”…
If we want to build a better future, we all need to eat more fish | Environment
As the international community continues to grapple with the future of humanity, most recently at this month’s UN Summit of the Future, the question of…