In a landmark resolution adopted today, the UN General Assembly decided that it will convene for a formal meeting each time one or more permanent members of the Security Council…
Will the planetary incapacity to govern be addressed right now or do we wait until after a Third World War to do so? The First World War made it painfully…
As space science matures and accelerates, the time has come for a democratically accountable UN to moderate human activity beyond Earth argues Ian Crawford.
In a video speech delivered on Tuesday, 5 April 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy informed a meeting of the UN’s Security Council of mass atrocities committed by Russian forces against…
Policy briefs published by V-Dem Institute collate evidence that democracy performs better in public goods provision, education, growth, social protection, health, climate change mitigation and other fields
Ahead of the UN’s Stockholm+50 conference on the environment in June 2022, around 40 civil society organizations published a joint statement calling for a “critical paradigm shift” to ensure effective…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced last week that he has established a “High‑Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism”, in short HLAB. According to a “note to correspondents” released by…
Following a veto cast by Russia in a vote of the UN Security Council on 25 February 2022 on a resolution condemning Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the legitimacy…
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine, one of its neighbouring countries, marking a steep escalation of a conflict that began with its annexation of…
Amid global protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Democracy Without Borders released a statement today condemning “the war of aggression carried out by the Russian regime and its enablers.” The…
One hundred countries joined Biden’s Summit for Democracy in December 2021 to demonstrate their commitment to, and develop strategies to defend, democracy during a time of increased autocratic threats. While…
Laura Thornton and Annika Silva-Leander |18.02.2022
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