Today is the 20th anniversary of UN’s Convention on Rights of the Child and various ceremonies are being held all over the world to mark the event. This Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC) was signed in 1989 and it endorses and guarantees basic right of all children to life, education, play and protection [...]

According to Phil Edwards, a researcher from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, “We need to do a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness. It is a key factor in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and slow climate change.”
Edwards’ research found that ‘the average overweight person is responsible for [...]

Cassava is touted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the savior of Africa, being a staple food of more than half a billion of the world’s poorest people. The crop augurs well in the continent because it is basically drought-resistant. But one of the most important foods on the planet is becoming [...]

If UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon were a puppet of the West, particularly of the US, as he is often criticized to be, he would ‘have supported the International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect while on the hustings for the UN’s top job, nor would he have pushed so hard on climate change [...]

The problem of food insecurity affects the world’s small-scale farms and rural areas the most. This is because these places are also where ‘70 percent of the world’s hungry live and work.’ As the world commemorates World Food Day on October 16, some depressing statistics confront the governments of the world: an estimated increase of [...]

There have been great people who deserved the Nobel Peace Prize more than Henry Kissinger or Yasir Arafat but, then again, the award-giving Norwegian Nobel Committee reserves the right to choose. Here are some of those who missed the rightful glory.
Gandhi should have been an obvious winner. Who to better embody the spirit of peace [...]

According to Western diplomats, Iran promised ‘to send about 80 percent of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for processing and return to Tehran to replenish dwindling fuel stocks for a reactor in the capital that produces isotopes for cancer care.’ Iran’s low-enriched uranium stocks total around 1.5 metric tons. Received fuel [...]

He is actually ‘tougher than his mild diplomatic manner may suggest.’ He ‘can do a great deal to foment that global opinion’ and does not hesitate doing so. According to a poll conducted by the WorldPublicOpinion.org, he is ‘the second most trusted global figure after Obama.’
He heads the United Nations, the international membership club that [...]

Reconciliation between Tamils and the Sinhalese-dominated government in Sri Lanka is elusive as ever, even if the government tries to recruit Tamils into government service such as police work. ‘But such measures look paltry against an internment policy that the EU’s report calls a “novel form of unacknowledged detention”. The government justifies it by citing [...]

The possible and highly probable Iran nuclear threat has stirred some worry in high places once again. This is due to two major leaks that recently occurred.
In the first leak, ‘the New York Times published an article reporting that staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. nuclear oversight group, had produced an [...]