Although more than 700 million vaccine doses have been administered globally, richer countries have received more than 87 per cent, and low-income countries...
Like wars, climate change, and economic disruption of all kinds, sanctions do tremendous damage to vulnerable people. The difference is that economic...
Iranian professor Dr. Sirous Asgari, unjustly arrested by the FBI, has now come down with COVID-19 in ICE custody and is at risk of dying. Dr. Asgari is 59...
The affluent countries should work on making the rules of the world economy fairer for the poorer countries: on removing trade barriers to their exports, on...
A policy of depriving Iran of assistance in the fight against COVID-19 when neither a treatment nor a cure or vaccine exist – and when USA leads the world in...
"Israeli leaders can see clearly that Israel’s policies of occupation, colonization, blockade of Gaza and preventing Palestinian statehood can progress...
Governments must prioritize children. Too often, governments speak of caring for children, but their budgets and policy priorities do not reflect that.
Despite sustained engagement by UNICEF and repeated calls to end night arrests and ill treatment and torture of Palestinian children in Israeli military...
"In viewing the covid-19 pandemic through the prism of international power politics, Western governments, political observers and media pundits have not only...
U.S. News and World Report ranks Canada’s public health-care system as the most well-developed in the world. And yet, Indigenous communities are still not...
As the world’s attention is turned to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the Palestinian people under occupation face an additional crisis — the threat of...
President Trump and his top aides are working behind the scenes to sideline the World Health Organization on several new fronts as they seek to shift blame...
UAE prison authorities should take urgent measures to protect the mental and physical health of prisoners amid reported Covid-19 outbreaks in at least three...
Britain’s early handling of the coronavirus pandemic was one of the worst public health failures in UK history, with ministers and scientists taking a...
Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing back on the Trump administration’s plan to unveil stepped-up sanctions against Iran urging the outgoing president to...
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has called on the Biden administration to “end US COVID-19 asylum restrictions” and restore access to asylum “for...