Two recent UNESCO studies show the social and economic impact of a practice considered normal throughout Tunisia: that of parents inflicting physical and psychological violence against their children
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director, and Najat Maalla M'Jid, UN Special Representative on Violence against Children, write
Some analysts dismiss the opinion polls and doubt that there will be a new civil war, but there is no clear escape from the risk of more political violence due to deep political divisions
In the months before and after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, millions of Americans clicked their way through an online flood of disinformation, including the widely distributed falsehood that…
Since last month, angry and frustrated Ahwazi Arabs of Iran have been protesting deliberate water shortage, deteriorating living conditions, and oppression by Iranian authorities.
It was not the…
The withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan has unleashed a fresh wave of violence. Taliban forces have stepped up attacks across the country and overrun a growing number of districts…
In 1992, Amra was a teenager in Bihac, Bosnia, just before the start of the Serbian military invasion of Bosnia. She didn’t know what was going to happen when her Serbian best friend told her at…
The strait carries up to 20% of the world's oil exports at around 20 million barrels of oil each day. Any closure could cost the global economy greatly, even if only for a short time.
For decades, Iran's supreme leader—first Khomeini, then Khamenei—pursued a strategy of backing regional militias to fight Israel, but with the 'resistance axis' in tatters, Iran is left to fight alone