Global climate experts and senior politicians from every country on earth as well as thousands of activist gathered at the Annual Climate Summit, or the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP19) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate (...)
Imagine a society in which murderers decided that murder was legal. It wasn't that they actually changed the law; they just ignored them and argued that the laws should be changed. Imagine a community in which the rich governed the poor as slaves, (...)
Rio is a huge metropolis with an easy-go-lucky attitude spawned by its friendly citizens, its beautiful beaches, and its extensive sunshine. It was the hopeful city where the world in 1992 embarked on its journey to save the planet.
In 1992, the (...)
Few people play such an important role in building their countries as did Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's first president and a leader of its independence struggle.
On Wednesday, aged 95, this iconic figure passed away in Algiers, in the capital of (...)
Last week a select group of about two and half thousand of the world's richest elites and a few of their groupies met in Davos at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to discuss the global economic crisis. They were invited to the (...)
The past year has been both tough and intriguing for the almost 10 million Palestinians living around the world and still striving to realise their human right to self-determination.
While the Arab Spring has shown that the Arab world has much to (...)
For 20 years the nations of the world have been trying to conquer climate change that otherwise is likely to make our planet uninhabitable. From 28 November to 12 December, more than 15,000 delegates from almost 200 countries gathered in Durban, (...)
For decades the apartheid regime in South Africa subjected the majority of South Africans to insidious discrimination that had no basis in global morality or international law. The minority whites merely thought the black South Africans were (...)
For decades the apartheid regime in South Africa subjected the majority of South Africans to insidious discrimination that had no basis in global morality or international law. The minority whites merely thought the black South Africans were (...)
The tragedy that befell Norway that left almost a hundred mostly young people dead, killed by a bombing and a shooting rampage, is a terrible horror. Even more horrifying, however, is how we reacted to it and how we continue to react to (...)
The recent effort by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its prosecutor to prosecute Libyan government officials raises significant questions about the impartiality, integrity, independence and competence of the ICC to contribute to (...)
If the first threat to human existence is climate change, the refusal of developed states to take responsibility for it and address it comes a close second, writes Curtis Doebbler*
Climate change is widely acknowledged to be the greatest threat (...)
No state that glorifies and trades in violence can expect members of its society to do anything otherwise, writes Curtis Doebbler*
The tragedy that befell Norway that left almost 100 mostly young people dead, killed by a bombing and a shooting (...)
Although one may not realise it judging from recent events, the use of force in international relations is prohibited by the most fundamental international law.
As a complement to this prohibition, all states are solemnly enjoined to resolve (...)
As Palestinians commemorated the Nakba, the day that Israel began to violently drive millions of Palestinians from their homeland, Israel renewed its past violence with more violence against unarmed Palestinians. Last Sunday, dozens of Palestinians (...)
Heads of states, religious leaders, politicians, activists, lawyers, academics —even homeless people living on the streets of some of the poorest countries in the world —all talk about equity and justice.
These principles are at the core of all (...)
Osama Bin Laden's death proved what he said in life: that the United States couldn't kill or arrest him within its own laws, writes Curtis Doebbler*
Whatever one might think of Osama bin Laden (whether a terrorist for his alleged role in killing an (...)
Whatever one might think of Osama Bin Laden (whether a terrorist for his alleged role in killing an estimated 5000 Westerners, or a freedom fighter against US imperialism that has killed an estimated two million Afghanis and Iraqis), his targeted (...)
It is easy to look at a leader who has been in power for more than 40 years and suggest it is time for him to go. Indeed, modern international law requires that all citizens be given the chance to participate in their government, although it does (...)
World Health Day, 7 April 2011, is not only as day to remember how important health is to every one of us, but it is also a day in which we should recall that the highest attainable level of mental and physical health is a human right for every (...)
While the media presents Western intervention in Libya as aiding a just uprising of the Libyan people, the reality is very different, writes Curtis Doebbler
Watching the Western media, one would think that the Libya crisis was a domestic uprising in (...)
By the standard of international law, military action on Libya by the United States and allies is illegal, writes Curtis Doebbler*
On 19 March 2011, Western nations started the third international armed conflict against a Muslim country in the last (...)
Away from the photo ops, the decisions not taken at the latest world meet on climate change imperil human life on the planet, writes Curtis Doebbler* in Cancun, Mexico
Climate talks have wound up in the Mexican resort of Cancun with a series of (...)
In Mexico, Curtis Doebbler* finds that this year's headline climate change conference -- COP16 -- is just as lost on what action to take as the last was
The annual climate change jamboree opened with expressions of hope, mass confusion, and (...)
Based on plain deceptions about action, the upcoming global environment meeting in Mexico will not adequately address the vast threat of rapid climate change, writes Curtis Doebbler*
From 29 November to 10 December, the 194 governments who have (...)