Timothy Garton Ash discusses whether to intervene, or not, in Libya.

Gideon Rachman discusses why the international community has been hesistant to implement the "responsibility to protect" act as it contemplates unlikely foreign intervention in Libya.

This Foreign Policy article remembers Richard Holbrooke's achievement during his tenure as President Bill Clinton's ambassador to the United Nations, such as his success in evening out membership dues among member nations of the UN, a task at which his two predecessors tried and failed.

First Copenhagen, now Cancun. The warmists are in disarray. This Greens demise is the perfect time for Australia to discuss the benefits of nuclear power, reports the Herald Sun.

The Guardian's Tim Yeo says it's unlikely countries will sign up to binding limits on carbon dioxide unless growth can be decoupled from the use of fossil fuels

Manish Bapna, the Executive Vice President of the World Resources Institute, discusses the future of climate change developments in India.

As the world approaches the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals--which include a goal of reducing the proportion of hungry people by half--the 2010 Global Hunger Index offers a useful multidimensional overview of global hunger.

In this New York Times op-ed, Eileen Donahoe weighs in on U.S. participation in the United Nations Human Rights Council, a year after taking a seat as a member.

In this op-ed from Pakistan's Daily Times, Peter Jacob explores the reasons for why the UN Resolution on Defamation of Religions has caught little attention in Pakistan and recommends that the Pakistani government review its position on the resolution, pointing out that it will undermine the development in the conceptual framework and implementation of human rights.

The Economist offers two explanations for the failure of carbon markets to take off. One is that the markets had already priced in the likelihood of seeing neither a deal in Copenhagen nor a cap-and-trade bill on Barack Obama's desk. Another is that their long-term prospects remain reasonable, if humble.

Peter Galbraith exposes his side of the Afghan electoral fraud story, and comments on his perceptions of the real reasons behind his termination from the post of UN deputy special representative in Afghanistan last week.

Charlie Savage examines the Obama administration's decision to disregard a statute that forbids State Department officials from attending UN meetings led by nations sponsoring terrorism.

Are U.N. peacekeepers failing in their mission to protect the world?

In the face of the global financial crisis, the Doha Development Round must be concluded
as soon as possible, and protectionism and unilateralism must be avoided in order to make trade
“the most powerful tool for growth and production”, experts said.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been running several high-level strategy meetings over how to ensure that the global financial meltdown does not derail efforts to address parallel "crises" in hunger and rising food prices, energy costs, extreme poverty, and climate change, says a key adviser.

This article posits how to recover from the financial crisis and work towards globalizing in a fair manner.

Conscious of the increasing pressure on limited water resources, UN-Water has identified water scarcity as the theme for World Water Day 2007. This report reflects on the challenges posed by the unsustainable increase in water use and its degradation across the globe.

A policy brief based on the 2006 Joint International Conference: "Desertification and the International Policy Imperative." Desertification has emerged as an environmental crisis of global proportions. Recent evaluations clearly demonstrate there are no signs that it is abating on a global scale.

An Issues Brief on the actual effect of international "defamation of religions" resolutions on inhibiting freedom of religion and freedom of expression at both the theoretical and practical levels.

A joint Chicago Council/PIPA poll looks at global attitudes toward the United Nations. People around the world favor dramatic steps to strengthen the United Nations, including giving it the power to have its own standing peacekeeping force, to regulate the international arms trade and to investigate human rights abuses.