Editorial

Jemilah Mahmood :The French Romanticist Victor Hugo famously wrote that “Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.” The localization of humanitarian aid...

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein :(From previous issue)Turning to States which are not members of this Council, Bahrain, Laos, Tanzania and Turkmenistan have permitted no visits...

We are grief stricken by London Tower Inferno :We are feeling deep shock and sorrow by the incident at the Grenfell Tower in London, the...

FESTIVALS are common to all societies and cultures. With changes in social and economic structures, nature of festivals too changes. However, bearing the stamp of...

THOUSANDS of Eid holidaymakers may suffer in traffic jams if the authorities fail to control vehicular movement at some key points of the highways. Traffic...

A WEST London community has been left reeling and searching for answers after an “unprecedented” blaze ripped through a tower block, killing at least a...

CAUSED due to intermittent heavy rains the low lying and the hilly parts of the south of the country are feared to experience more flash...

Preventing landslide-deaths More than 150 people have been killed in the past two days in the CHT due to the incessant rainfall, including four army...

Jomo Kwame Sundaram :Even before the term ‘Washington Consensus’ (WC) was popularized, it was already coming under great criticism despite the ‘counter-revolutions’ against ‘development economics’...

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein :Fifty years ago, this was the day I first heard the sound of war. I was three and a half years...

Joseph Chamie :Global food extremes of chronic undernourishment and obesity have brought about a bipolar world of hundreds of millions of underfed and overfed people....

Christoph Benn :Health challenges have important societal and economic consequences, and in today’s interconnected world the consequences for not addressing these challenges can affect us...