“AI is advancing at a runway speed. The question is no longer whether AI will transform our world – it already is. The question is whether we will…

On 7 December in Benin, a small group of soldiers attempted a coup d’État. Early in the morning, after gunfire was heard around the presidency, eight armed…

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is under a prolonged stress test, as its Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala termed recently in a Financial Times article. This stress test…

UN Security Council resolution 2774 (2025) was a long-awaited resolution on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as non-procedural draft resolutions had been vetoed by Russia since the invasion.

The United Nations Charter entered into force eighty years ago on 24 October 1945.  Eighty years is a long life for a world order. Empires,…

As the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly ('GA') high-level week draws to a close, the time has come for the GA to get…

This year marks the 15th anniversary of one of the most quietly revolutionary institutions in global governance: the Office of the United Nations Ombudsperson to the ISIL…