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By Carola Di Giansante Less than two-thirds of a healthy weight, too frail to sit upright, nine-month-old Ahmed represents what one in two Yemeni children are currently facing. Since 2015, Yemen has been caught in a civil war involving the Yemeni government, Houthi armed groups and a Saudi-led coalition supporting the government. By 2018, the United Nations had described the situation as the worst  humanitarian crisis the world has seen. Today, over 17 million  civilians are food-insecure and...

Has the UN shifted from a legal principle of self-determination to a political notion of ‘realistic solutions’ in Western Sahara? By: Sophie Martínez Rossignol Western Sahara remains one of the most enduring decolonisation disputes in international law. Although the UN and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have repeatedly affirmed the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination, recent UN practice reveals growing contradictions in its own doctrines and past rulings. Rather than...

By: Aleksandr Crusellas Grishina Aleksandr Crusellas Grishina During September 2025, heightened US military activity within the South Caribbean has been formally and informally associated with unusual spikes in civilian deaths, angering their South American neighbours, especially Maduro’s office. Furthermore, the presumed disdain from some American cabinet members towards “leftist” leaders, especially Maduro, only exacerbates the animosity caused by the event.