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Publications

Diaries from Refugee Camps

“I entered the university and my heart is leaping with joy!” — An extracts from a refugee’s journal

Environment report

Making environment and development go hand in hand

Global Justice

The three UN conventions on the laws of the sea and how they are failing to secure it

Linguistics

Why Russian and Ukrainian are not the same language

Global Justice

Rehauling Lady Justice: Is the United Nations guilty in Ukraine?

United Nations

Gutterres’ visit to Ukraine: Another blow to the UN

Kenya

Where water is a gift: The outskirts of Nairobi in pictures

Do you know who it is? The Gordian May Quiz

African woman with water tank

Pissing in the sacred brook: humanity’s abuse of water

child immigrants At school in 70s England

At school in 70s England

“I couldn’t understand a word of it, but I loved choir singing” – My life as a Moroccan child immigrant in 70s England

Achieving Net Zero from the lens of policy making

Net Zero

Policy Making: How to Achieve Net Zero

Michelangelo and Dante

Art

Like Rings in The Water: Dante’s impact on Michelangelo

Diaries from Refugee Camps

Education of Syrian Refugees During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Literature

Poems for a better world: This War of MMXXII

Putin and other dictators

Russia

Letter to Putin: “You are a serial killer, but there is one thing I must thank you for…”

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Publications

Diaries from Refugee Camps

“I entered the university and my heart is leaping with joy!” — An extracts from a refugee’s journal

Environment report

Making environment and development go hand in hand

Global Justice

The three UN conventions on the laws of the sea and how they are failing to secure it

Linguistics

Why Russian and Ukrainian are not the same language

Global Justice

Rehauling Lady Justice: Is the United Nations guilty in Ukraine?

United Nations

Gutterres’ visit to Ukraine: Another blow to the UN

Kenya

Where water is a gift: The outskirts of Nairobi in pictures

Do you know who it is? The Gordian May Quiz

African woman with water tank

Pissing in the sacred brook: humanity’s abuse of water

child immigrants At school in 70s England

At school in 70s England

“I couldn’t understand a word of it, but I loved choir singing” – My life as a Moroccan child immigrant in 70s England

Achieving Net Zero from the lens of policy making

Net Zero

Policy Making: How to Achieve Net Zero

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Unravelling the United Nations, Argead Style

How can the UN achieve its sacred mission without the shackles of obsolete structures and bullying superpowers? This is how!

UN in focus

The three UN conventions on the laws of the sea and how they are failing to secure it

Ariana Yekrangi

Rehauling Lady Justice: Is the United Nations guilty in Ukraine?

Adrian Liberto

Gutterres’ visit to Ukraine: Another blow to the UN

Adrian Liberto

Putin and other dictators

Letter to Putin: “You are a serial killer, but there is one thing I must thank you for…”

Adrian Liberto

It shouldn’t be NATO, it should be the United Nations: The Poetry of Appeasement

Adrian Liberto

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a death knell for the United Nations

Adrian Liberto

Celebrity islands with the United Nations

Celebrity islands with the United Nations

Ariana Yekrangi

Abstaining in the face of war: Security Council Meeting on Ukraine

Abstaining in the face of war

Adrian Liberto

Galleries

Kenya

Where water is a gift: The outskirts of Nairobi in pictures

A Maasai women

Kenya

Portraits from Tanzania – In Pictures

Ukraine

The world stands up to Putin’s bloodthirsty antics — in pictures

Ukraine

The painful history of Ukraine — A photo timeline (Part 2)

Ukraine

The painful history of Ukraine — A photo timeline (Part 1)

10 photos of the stupendous realm of the microscopic world — in pictures

Vank Church mural depicting the seven heavens

Iran

Christmas in Iran: Inside The 17th Century Iranian-Armenian Monastery of St. Amenaprkich (Vank Church) — In Pictures

Russia

A look inside Kamchatka – in Pictures

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Interviews

child immigrants At school in 70s England

“I couldn’t understand a word of it, but I loved choir singing” – My life as a Moroccan child immigrant in 70s England

“I still have hope that we will all return to our warm home and beautiful city” — Interview with Syrian refugee, Somaya

Photo of Partho Pratim Chatterjee

“You are the people and you have to take responsibility”: Interview with climate activist, Partho Chatterjee

Arsal Camp, Refugee camp

“Every day my heart squeezes with sadness and pain”: An Interview with Amna, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon’s Arsal Camp

Ayesha Kajee Talks to UN-aligned About Her Poem “Silence”

Author Dean Gessie Talks to UN-aligned about his “Terra Australis Incognita”

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Monthly recap

What you may have missed in April 2022

What you may have missed in March 2022

Across UN-aligned

Last Month in UN-aligned

United Nations

UN’s slow pace of justice & UNESCO’s decision on Venice

A selection of traditional Chinese medicine

China

The Use of Chinese Medicine in Treating Covid-19

Labelling Suicide while Missing the Point

European Union

Join the campaign to save cruelty-free cosmetics

Russia

Vlady Hell: Putin Strikes Again!

animal rights

Animal Rights

Letters: Help us raise our banner in support of animals

Changes to the way our readers will be experiencing the Gordian magazine

Letters: The Lives of Three Iranian Protestors are on the Line – Take Action Now

10 books, movies and music UN-aligneders want you to dive in!

Literature

“Terra Australis Incognita” & “Silence” chosen as the winners of the 2021 UN-aligned poetry competition

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