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Just ahead of the United Nations climate conference, Nepal’s flood recovery becomes an early test of its new loss-and-damage fund.

Beating back the broligarchs

Indigenous leaders say true peace requires self-determination and respect for their rights.

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of scifi. The discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to emerge as a faint anomaly in astronomical data, followed by painstaking process of verification and peer review.

We won’t stop US wars, effectively tackle climate change, stave off US-style fascism, or halt the march to a nakedly might-makes-right world order without a vision for a transformed role for the US in today’s interconnected world.

The earliest reported Women’s Day seems to have been in New York in 1909. In 1975 the United Nations officially recognised March 8th as International Women's Day. Did you see much coverage this weekend? Me neither. So here’s some!

Olga Cherevko grew up on military bases in Siberia, belonged to a Christian cult in the U.S. and was sent by the UN to some of the toughest places in the world. None of that prepared her for what she saw in Gaza.

The genocide in Gaza and the ‘new world order’

“What I sense most powerfully from my friends in Gaza is a feeling of abandonment. Quiet is not the absence of conflict nor is it peace.” Plans for the “day after” in the Strip impose forms of governance that exclude Palestinians as political agents

Cora was a champion of the United Nations and its mission to advance peace and women’s rights. She insisted that we at IPS name programs in positive terms with “what we’re for”: peace, disarmament, internationalism, women’s rights, the common good.