Merin Abbass heads the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s (FES) office in Lebanon. He was previously head of the FES office in Libya. He studied political science and international relations in Germany and ...

Cina Lawson is Minister of Digital Economy and Transformation of Togo.

Irene Khan is the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). From 2001 to 2009, she was the first female Secretary ...

While North Korean troops are unlikely to be a game changer in the Russia-Ukraine War, their presence is already a major victory for Kim Jong-Un picture alliance / Picvario | Komsomolskaya Pravda The ...

Nancy du Plessis studied urban design. She has engaged in tenant struggles in New York, Paris and Berlin and published five ‘long reads’ on gentrification and housing.

Right-wing extremists in Europe are exploiting the scarcity of affordable housing. In November 2023, Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party put migration as the force driving endemic Dutch problems such as the ...

In Uruguay, the centre-left Frente Amplio (FA) coalition won the presidential election in the run-off on Sunday with 49.8 per cent to 45.9 per cent. In the super-election year of 2024, this is rare ...

The UN Climate Change Conference in Baku was shaken right at the start by the announcement that US President-elect Donald Trump was planning to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement once again.