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The need to uphold the right to education has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. Ensuring “inclusive and equitable quality education” for all is...

Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has finally taken steps to comply with a European Court of Justice (ECJ) decree ordering it to reverse some of...

The meeting between US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires this week is being viewed as a...

From farm to fork, the international community is facing growing challenges in eradicating hunger and malnutrition. And yet while some parts of the world...

Africa is home to the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. With as many as 20 million young people poised to join the workforce every year for...

More than 3 per cent of all people live outside the country of their birth. But while the share of migrants in the world’s population has remained mostly...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is eager to hold a second summit with US President Donald Trump. Since their first meeting in Singapore in June, Kim has...

Christiana Figueres, the former United Nations official responsible for the 2015 Paris climate agreement, has a startling vision for restaurants of the...

Upon Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, the New York Times published a letter to the editor with a marvellous anecdote. Shortly after the atomic bombs had...

French President Emmanuel Macron has framed the European Parliament election in May 2019 as a battle not between the traditional right and left, but between...