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The political and social upheaval in many parts of the Middle East and North Africa that began with a young man’s personal quest for dignity after being slighted by a policewoman in a small...
An enormous amount of intellectual energy has gone into the global response to HIV & AIDS over the past 30 years. The results have been visible in local, national, and international spheres at...
The United Nations General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security is currently underway at the UN Headquarters in New York until 1 November 2011. This Committee is...
The crumbling of North African (NA) regimes holds serious challenges for international law on the African continent. Traditional international law refrained from prescribing to states which forms...
Once again this year, on 21 September, the world is celebrating the International Day of Peace. Also known as World Peace Day, this annual event that was declared by the UN General Assembly in...
South Africa’s almost ‘back to back’ re-election to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a non-permanent member for another two-year tenure in October 2010 affirmed the nation’s...
On the 26th of February 2011 the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously passed Resolution 1970 (2011), referring the `situation` in Libya to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The...
Since the long series of public holidays began, I have been called on by the electronic media to comment many times on developments in Syria. For a long time it seemed to be the only remaining...