https://un-aligned.org/Recent content on UN-alignedHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ukThu, 12 Mar 2026 11:15:00 +0300https://un-aligned.org/posts/nayib-bukele-el-salvador-human-rights/Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:15:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/nayib-bukele-el-salvador-human-rights/International legal experts warn that the draconian mass incarceration policies and arbitrary detentions orchestrated by Nayib Bukele constitute crimes against humanity.https://un-aligned.org/posts/iea-releases-oil-reserves/Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/iea-releases-oil-reserves/The International Energy Agency has mandated the release of four hundred million barrels of crude oil to stabilise global markets following military escalation in the Middle East.https://un-aligned.org/posts/un-security-council-reform-permanent-five-veto-power-nuclear-disarmament/Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0300Omar Alansari-Kregerhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/un-security-council-reform-permanent-five-veto-power-nuclear-disarmament/The structure of the UNSC reflects a geopolitical order forged after the Second World War. In a multipolar world facing renewed nuclear risks, meaningful reform may require rethinking veto power—and giving the wider UN General Assembly a stronger voice.https://un-aligned.org/posts/rapper-balendra-shah-wins-nepal-election/Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/rapper-balendra-shah-wins-nepal-election/Balendra Shah and his Rastriya Swatantra Party have secured an unprecedented parliamentary majority in Nepal following violent youth-led protests that collapsed the previous communist establishment.https://un-aligned.org/posts/iran-mojtaba-khamenei-succession/Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/iran-mojtaba-khamenei-succession/A revolution that overthrew a shah in the name of republican virtue now appears to have produced its own dynasty, as Mojtaba Khamenei assumes power after the killing of Ali Khamenei in a joint American and Israeli strike.https://un-aligned.org/posts/is-south-sudan-a-failed-state/Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/is-south-sudan-a-failed-state/South Sudan's worsening situation and lack of international support.https://un-aligned.org/posts/what-really-happens-at-china-twosessions/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/what-really-happens-at-china-twosessions/The annual convergence of China's legislature and advisory body signals a hardening focus on economic self-sufficiency and technological sovereignty amid ongoing military purges.https://un-aligned.org/posts/minab-school-massacre/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0300Ariana Yekrangihttps://un-aligned.org/posts/minab-school-massacre/US and Israeli officials claim the bombing of an Iranian primary school was an intelligence failure. But satellite forensics reveal the attackers knew exactly what they were hitting.https://un-aligned.org/posts/hormuz-closure-global-energy-markets/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/hormuz-closure-global-energy-markets/The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following military strikes on Iran has triggered severe volatility across global financial and energy markets.https://un-aligned.org/posts/has-the-third-world-war-begun/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0300Adrian Libertohttps://un-aligned.org/posts/has-the-third-world-war-begun/As powerful leaders defy global norms and institutions falter, the question is no longer whether the world order is weakening, but what will replace it.https://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/iran-supreme-leader-assassination-aftermath/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:05:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/iran-supreme-leader-assassination-aftermath/The targeted killing of Ali Khamenei by American and Israeli forces plunges the Islamic Republic into a precarious succession crisis while escalating regional military hostilities.https://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/is-the-uk-by-election-win-by-the-greens-a-sign-of-hope/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/is-the-uk-by-election-win-by-the-greens-a-sign-of-hope/The UK by-election win by the Greens a sign of the changing political landscape in the UK.https://un-aligned.org/posts/iran-2003-moment/Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0300Ariana Yekrangihttps://un-aligned.org/posts/iran-2003-moment/While Iran offered unprecedented concessions that could have made nuclear war impossible, Israel and the US have chosen another illegal war.https://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/pakistan-afghanistan-sliding-towards-open-war/Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/pakistan-afghanistan-sliding-towards-open-war/Airstrikes on Kabul and border clashes mark the sharpest escalation yet between Pakistan and Taliban-run Afghanistan after a fragile 2025 ceasefire.https://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/did-huckabee-just-say-what-us-policy-really-is/Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:04:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/did-huckabee-just-say-what-us-policy-really-is/Outrage in Arab capitals followed Mike Huckabee’s blunt answer to a simple question. Yet the comment may have been less a gaffe than a moment of honesty about Washington’s real stance.https://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/rodrigo-duterte-icc-pre-trial-hearing/Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/rodrigo-duterte-icc-pre-trial-hearing/Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court argue that former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was central to a campaign of extrajudicial killings.https://un-aligned.org/posts/is-perus-new-president-any-more-reassuring/Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/is-perus-new-president-any-more-reassuring/Peru choses another President with a dubious background.https://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/trump-iran-negotiations-nuclear-deal-2026/Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/trump-iran-negotiations-nuclear-deal-2026/Donald Trump’s military buildup in the Middle East serves as a coercive backdrop to fragile nuclear negotiations with Tehran.https://un-aligned.org/posts/uk-palestine-action-proscription-ruled-unlawful/Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/uk-palestine-action-proscription-ruled-unlawful/A UK high court has ruled the government's proscription of the direct-action group Palestine Action as unlawful, citing a disproportionate interference with free speech rights.https://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/can-bangladesh-escape-its-past/Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0300UN-alignedhttps://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/can-bangladesh-escape-its-past/The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has secured a two-thirds parliamentary majority in the first competitive election since 2008 following a constitutional referendum and the rise of Islamist opposition.https://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/stablecoins-asia-financial-infrastructure/Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0300Ariana Yekrangihttps://un-aligned.org/essential-stories-of-the-week/stablecoins-asia-financial-infrastructure/Asia leads the global shift toward cryptocurrency as stablecoin volumes for remittances and business transactions reach 4trn dollars.https://un-aligned.org/posts/climate-change-and-the-rise-of-public-interest-litigation/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0300Partho Pratim Chatterjeehttps://un-aligned.org/posts/climate-change-and-the-rise-of-public-interest-litigation/As governments struggle to respond to mounting environmental damage, India’s courts have become unlikely guardians of the planet. Public Interest Litigation is increasingly shaping how pollution, climate stress and public health are confronted.https://un-aligned.org/posts/michelangelo-saint-matthew-unfinished/Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0300Carla Pietrobattistahttps://un-aligned.org/posts/michelangelo-saint-matthew-unfinished/In the sculptural figure of Saint Matthew, Michelangelo Buonarroti reveals a radical vision of art, one in which beauty lies not in polish or completion, but in the struggle of form emerging from raw matter.https://un-aligned.org/posts/minneapolis-protest-far-right/Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0300Valerie Lawsonhttps://un-aligned.org/posts/minneapolis-protest-far-right/A right-wing activist arrived in Minneapolis to stoke fear of Muslims and immigrants. When his rally collapsed into chaos, it was a Black man and a transgender woman, the very people his politics target, who stepped in to protect him.https://un-aligned.org/posts/2026-01-23-peace-prize-or-dynamite/Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0300Adrian Libertohttps://un-aligned.org/posts/2026-01-23-peace-prize-or-dynamite/A tantrum over a peace prize, a threat against Greenland, and a committee willing to bend the knee: how indulging Donald Trump’s narcissism has turned one of the world’s most prestigious awards into a geopolitical liability.https://un-aligned.org/posts/iran-protests-theocracy-monarchy-restoration/Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0300Ariana Yekrangihttps://un-aligned.org/posts/iran-protests-theocracy-monarchy-restoration/Iran’s latest wave of protests has been shaped by decades of economic suffocation, political foreclosure and ideological exhaustion. Under the combined weight of imperial pressure and authoritarian rule, the promise of sovereignty has collapsed, and nostalgia offers no way out.https://un-aligned.org/gordian/issue-4/Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://un-aligned.org/gordian/issue-4/The old covenants of international law now haunt the world as powerless spectres. In their absence, a maddened empire turns on itself. From the coup in Venezuela and Trump’s threat to annex Greenland to the ambitions of the son of Iran’s deposed Shah and the charade of global climate summits, we are living amid the ruins of an order that has lost its mind.https://un-aligned.org/posts/underground-climate-change-urban-heat-seismic-risk/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:00:00 +0300Partho Pratim Chatterjeehttps://un-aligned.org/posts/underground-climate-change-urban-heat-seismic-risk/Urban heat doesn’t stop at the surface. As concrete warms the ground beneath cities, scientists say it may subtly alter stresses on shallow faults — with implications for small earthquakes and urban resilience.https://un-aligned.org/posts/us-history-20th-century/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:00:00 +0300Alex Libertohttps://un-aligned.org/posts/us-history-20th-century/The American century was born out of economic collapse and global war. From the Panama Canal to Hiroshima, crisis after crisis propelled the United States into unrivalled political, military and economic dominance.https://un-aligned.org/posts/sudan-civil-war-maternal-health-south-darfur/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:00:00 +0300Necati Dogukan Sirkecihttps://un-aligned.org/posts/sudan-civil-war-maternal-health-south-darfur/Acute malnutrition now affects a third of children in the region while maternal mortality has spiked by 50 per cent. As infrastructure collapses, the crisis requires not just aid, but the same mass solidarity and political will directed at other global conflicts.