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- “I entered the university and my heart is leaping with joy!” — An extracts from a refugee’s journal
- Making environment and development go hand in hand
- The three UN conventions on the laws of the sea and how they are failing to secure it
- Why Russian and Ukrainian are not the same language
- Rehauling Lady Justice: Is the United Nations guilty in Ukraine?
- Gutterres’ visit to Ukraine: Another blow to the UN
- Meet The New Lady Justice
- What you may have missed in April 2022
- Where water is a gift: The outskirts of Nairobi in pictures
- Do you know who it is? The Gordian May Quiz
- Pissing in the sacred brook: humanity’s abuse of water
- “I couldn’t understand a word of it, but I loved choir singing” – My life as a Moroccan child immigrant in 70s England
- Policy Making: How to Achieve Net Zero
- Like Rings in The Water: Dante’s impact on Michelangelo
- Education of Syrian Refugees During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Poems for a better world: This War of MMXXII
- Letter to Putin: “You are a serial killer, but there is one thing I must thank you for…”
- What does it mean to be a Syrian refugee?
- Climate refugees in the modern world
- Education’s Paradigm Shift: “Another Brick in the Wall!”
- Exploring the difference between what is legal and what is ethical: The Gordian Magazine enters Vol. 6
- Ukrainians, Romania is alway open to you
- It shouldn’t be NATO, it should be the United Nations: The Poetry of Appeasement
- “There are so many wonders in a cow’s head”: The Gordian Quiz
- Portraits from Tanzania – In Pictures
- What you may have missed in March 2022
- Square Holes For Square Pegs: Revamping The Education System
- From patriotism to pure poetry: Isaac Rosenberg’s Break of Day in the Trenches
- What will your ideal world look like? Collaborate with us on a new book
- Update on UN-aligned’s open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council
- At last, European Unity Prevails
- We support Ukraine because it represents the sacrosanct right to build one’s own future
- “I still have hope that we will all return to our warm home and beautiful city” — Interview with Syrian refugee, Somaya
- Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a death knell for the United Nations
- February 2021: UN-Ukraine Timeline
- Vlady Hell: Putin Strikes Again!
- What you may have missed in February 2022
- Crying Havoc: Putin unleashes the dogs of war
- The world stands up to Putin’s bloodthirsty antics — in pictures
- The painful history of Ukraine — A photo timeline (Part 2)
- How much do you know about Ukraine?
- The painful history of Ukraine — A photo timeline (Part 1)
- “Art for all”: Della Robbia and the glazed sculptures of the Renaissance
- “You are the people and you have to take responsibility”: Interview with climate activist, Partho Chatterjee
- The Forging of an East African Federation
- Celebrity islands with the United Nations
- New voluntary position: UN-aligned is looking for a PR Manager
- The master of the Bildungsroman: Leslie Poles Hartley’s life and works
- Five benefits of legalising drugs that may change your perspective
- “My religion is myself and my nationality is my heart”: Five days inside a refugee’s diary
- New voluntary position: UN-aligned is looking for a Puzzle Creator
- Peeking Behind the Fig Leaf: Our Journey to Sexual Liberation
- Abstaining in the face of war
- Kazakhstan calls on Russia to help quell its unrest, Rock star Meat Loaf dies and Prince Andrew gets stripped (out of his royal patronage)
- February 2022: What you may have missed
- Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
- 10 photos of the stupendous realm of the microscopic world — in pictures
- UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine Review: Abstaining Romance and Plenty of Hot Air
- Is circumcision abuse?
- Poems for a Better World: When People Gather
- The Ultimate Guide to Caravaggio’s Nativity with Saints Lorenzo and Francesco
- Machines for the environment: 10 Simple machines that made our lives more sustainable
- Poems for a Better World: An Ode to Environmental Restoration
- Disheartening revelations about the UNHCR in Lebanon — A refugee’s perspective
- Citizenship is a construct, our primary duty is to humankind: 5 problems & solutions to the migrant problem
- Domenico Lucano declared as UN-aligned Person of the Year
- “Every day my heart squeezes with sadness and pain”: An Interview with Amna, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon’s Arsal Camp
- 10 most fascinating scientific discoveries of 2021
- Here’s everything you may have missed in December 2021
- French and UK authorities are being sued, Merkel retires and Honduras gets its first female leader
- Christmas in Iran: Inside The 17th Century Iranian-Armenian Monastery of St. Amenaprkich (Vank Church) — In Pictures
- Border Bullies: Weaponising citizenship
- Powerful women: The story of Artemisia Gentileschi and her 1639 self-portrait
- Still Life Without Flowers: A Glimpse Into The Arsal Refugee Camp
- John Osborne and The Angry Young Men
- Cherry picking justice: 9 rings of moral tunnel vision
- Syrian Refugees Heading for Another Tough Winter
- Support The Gordian with a Patreon subscription
- What you may have missed in November 2021
- Here’s everything you may have missed in November — The Gordian Monthly Recap
- What have YOU done for Justice this year?
- From Michelangelo to Michelangelo: The story behind Caravaggio his “Death of the Virgin”
- Language to Unite, Language to Separate: The Tale of Serbian & Croatian
- Harold Pinter: a mirror for the common people
- Yugoslavia’s Failed Social Contract: Lessons Worth Learning
- UN-aligned’s first Annual General Meeting
- Generation Earth: Why Youth are Necessary for Solving Global Problems
- SDG 16: “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”
- Ayesha Kajee Talks to UN-aligned About Her Poem “Silence”
- Poems for a Better World: Silence
- Join the campaign to save cruelty-free cosmetics
- “Terra Australis Incognita” & “Silence” chosen as the winners of the 2021 UN-aligned poetry competition
- Author Dean Gessie Talks to UN-aligned about his “Terra Australis Incognita”
- Poems for a Better World: Terra Australis Incognita
- Here’s everything you may have missed in October — The Gordian Monthly Recap
- News in October 2021 You May Have Missed
- Federalism & Social Cohesion
- A look inside Kamchatka – in Pictures
- The social ills equation… Minus inevitability
- Countries who criminalise homosexuality must not be allowed a seat on the UNHRC
- When it was illegal for me to be alive
- The UN is failing to eradicate poverty
- “There is too much stupidity around”: The Climate Change Report
- Samuel Beckett & Harold Pinter: 2 Giants of the Theatre of the Absurd
- When Art is Mystery: The Sculpture of the Veiled Christ
- News in August 2021 you may have missed
- Where do you stand on the whole human decency thing & should you support UN-aligned’s mission?
- The Titulus as a safe haven: Case Romane del Celio
- The Dystopian Novel: “Beyond Utopia”!
- Security Council Arria-Formula meeting on Myanmar
- UN is failing to combat Climate Change
- 5 reasons why the UN cannot be trusted to represent, let alone advance, humanity’s ideals
- The Gordian Magazine introduces new series about “social issues”
- News in July 2021 you may have missed
- Portraits along the way – in Pictures
- UNESCO’s 44th Session: 27 sites that made it into the World Heritage List – in Pictures
- 10 books, movies and music UN-aligneders want you to dive in!
- Standing up to The Dystopian Tide
- The Perfected Thought: Michelangelo Buonarroti
- “Why are you talking like that?” — How politicians use language
- Towards the Third Millennium: UK literature after the Second World War
- The new UN-peacekeeping budget: pun intended!
- Alone against the world: The US betrays the UN on Cuba
- What does Antonio Guterres’ re-selection mean for the United Nations? — Podcast
- António Guterres: The Power Under The Throne
- 8 UN Secretariat Offices explained in 10 minutes
- UN’s slow pace of justice & UNESCO’s decision on Venice
- Edward Mortimer was wrong that about the United Nations
- A fervid summer: Share your favourite books, TV shows & music with our international readers
- News in June 2021 you may have missed
- “Just Let Them Eat Fudge…”
- The Torlonia Marbles – in Pictures (Part 2)
- The Torlonia Marbles – in Pictures (Part 1)
- UN Secretaries-General: A Gallery Timeline
- “Pay no heed to the hippie”: Filippo Grandi, UNHCR chief, ignored once again
- Guterres publishes report about the lack of progress of UNSC Resolution 2334
- Eradicate colonialism by 2030? Unlikely.
- Who is Jean Arnault and what can he do about the Afghan peace talks?
- France halts its joint military operations in Mali as the G7 pledge 870 million doses of vaccine to the world
- Who are the 5 new non-permanent members of the UNSC for the term of 2022-2023?
- Mladic revisited: An unremarkable news item, were it not for the absurdity of the process
- Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby VS T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land: Portraying a dusty vastness where nothing thrives
- Help safeguard the access of Palestinian children to health services
- “A preventable tragedy”: How dementia became the catalyst that eroded Noor’s family
- Led by extremists, bombed by extremists – Gaza in the midst of insanity
- How to achieve a robust legal system? Solutions towards comprehensive global justice
- “Abandon all hope ye who enter here”: The shitshow that is the UN Security Council
- Renewed for September! The free UN-aligned writing course
- Paralysed, Betrayed & Battled: UN in Focus – May 2021
- Law & Disorder at The United Nations
- Surviving the victory: life in the war-torn Gaza Strip – in Pictures
- A look into the Iranian Turkmen Sahra – in Pictures
- Are the ICJ and the ICC our answers to international justice? – Podcast
- 700 years of Dante: The freedom to choose
- The Human Anthropological Transmutation: Bridging thoughts and new concepts
- What is the difference between the ICJ and the ICC?
- UN in Focus: holding the United Nations accountable to UN-aligned’s standards
- Updates to the UN-aligned manifesto that you need to review
- News in May 2021 you may have missed
- Whose Justice?
- Dinosaurs, The UN, May day celebration, an independent Scotland & ice cream!
- May Day protests: A celebration of spring or a day for activism? – in pictures
- On the road: The story behind Santa Maria church in Valle Porclaneta
- The Church of Putin: Inside The Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces – in pictures
- Your guide to T.S Eliot poems – April is the cruellest month
- The Growth Dilemma
- Seven Ways to Create a Healthy Economy with Kate Raworth – Podcast
- Funding and Fiscal Responsibility of the United Nations
- GDP is an impostor, so why are we still using it to measure happiness?
- The Doughnut Economy: “humanity to thrive sandwiched between its inner and outer limits”
- Easter doughnuts: reshaping the global economy
- Quiz: Humanity Vetoed – How Much Do You Know About The United Nations Security Council?
- John Donne’s No Man is an Island: Feeling a Oneness With Humanity
- Taming The Governing Strategies of Ongoing Socio-Economic Development by Way of G-Localization
- A Powerful Panacea? The Sanctions Dilemma
- What is The United Nations General Assembly?
- News in February 2021 You May Have Missed
- Photographer Anwar Sadat: “If you listen, people are always willing to talk”
- The 40th day of winter: Kurdistan Celebrates Pir Shaliar – in pictures
- To Sanction or Not to Sanction?
- Religion that unites…
- The semantic colour of the Chinese word laowai: meaning, perception and usage
- “The Greatest Metaphysical Poet”: Your Full Guide to John Donne’s Life, Career & Poems
- “No, it’s not just a snip”: Why Circumcision is Legalised Child Abuse
- Understanding conspiracy theories and its victims in the golden age of nonsense
- 5 Times the Russian Orthodox Church Flouted Norms of Decency
- The Lingering Sins of Religion: When books weigh us down
- The Gordian Magazine New Series: Doughnut Economy, Davos Agenda and more
- What you may have missed January 2021
- Unravelling the United Nations, Argead style
- Announcing the Winners of the UN-aligned Photo Competition
- Hijacking Religion to Down Human Rights…
- How cultivated meat can save the planet
- Iranian lawyer declared as UN-aligned Person of the Year
- Bolognese with lentils
- When Dilly-dallying Costs Lives
- Accidentally Vegan Feature?
- Giving voice to the the voiceless
- Annus Horribilis? Looking on the brighter side of 2020
- What you may have missed December 2020
- It’s time for a change: Welcome Veganuary!
- The Boy who Produces Golden Eggs – an interview with the 11 year old Andrea Piccinelli
- Hormoz and its People – in picture
- Samuel Pepys: A peep into the life of a gentleman in the Restoration period
- Democracy vs Anarchy: Which one is better?
- Letters: Help us raise our banner in support of animals
- Evolution Gaming fires hundreds of employees as it buys NetEnt for $2.1 billion
- The Gordian – December Issue, Vol 3
- The Noble Bukhara: A UNESCO Gem – in pictures
- Update on the Ashin Wirathu Campaign
- Letter to UN-aligned members: Ask your government to take immediate action against the looming hunger crisis affecting millions of people worldwide
- Who is the UN-aligned Person of the Year?
- How to prevent the 2021 food crisis
- 5 reasons why the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was misplaced
- News in October 2020 you may have missed
- The Gordian – November Issue, Vol 3
- Letter to the Arab League & the OIC: Take immediate action to counter discriminatory practices against LGBTQ individuals
- The Blame Game: Blame Breeds Blame in a Never Ending Game of Hate
- Misgendering people: Identity and Gender Pronouns
- LGBTQ Rights: Zombie Democracy and Loveless Religion
- Kathmandu: The Colorful Lands of Nepal – in pictures
- The Gordian – October Issue, Vol 3
- Letter to Zsuzsanna Jakab: Why is it so difficult for the WHO to take a non-political approach towards Taiwan?
- Surviving against the odds: life in an overlooked Bangladeshi locality
- Maurice and Sexual Awakening
- Immigrants: Language Acquisition and Education
- North Korea: A convenient pawn
- “The Future We Want and the UN We Need”: The UNGA Debates of 2020
- Unlocking Wedlock
- Wishing to stay above the ground: immigration and survival
- When grandmama fell off the boat… Very nearly taking note of migration
- Amazon: An Update on UN-alinged’s Campaign
- What you may have missed: August 2020
- The Gordian – September Issue, Vol 3
- My Experience with UN-aligned’s Language Courses
- Letter to Ashin Wirathu: Can your monastery do anything now to restore the spirit of fraternity that should reign amongst all the residents of Myanmar?
- “I want UN-aligned to be a place where people can come together without being judged”: Interview with Katharina Wüstnienhaus
- Hagia Sophia: National Sovereignty is not the Issue, Erdogan Likes to Play the Blaming Game
- The OSCE Minsk Group is Unfit to Conciliate Between Azerbaijan & Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh
- Russian Roulette: Why Putin’s Referendum Victory is a Threat to Humanity
- What You May Have Missed: July 2020
- The Gordian – August Issue, vol 3
- Music, Drama, Comedy & Illusion at Sichuan Opera – in Pictures
- Become a Voluntary Ambassador
- Earning a Living in the Remote Areas of Baluchestan – in pictures
- Letters: The Lives of Three Iranian Protestors are on the Line – Take Action Now
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Supernatural Poet
- Cultural Appropriation: What is the Harm?
- Compassion fatigue: How turn your compassion into positive action
- The Use of Tear Gas in the 21st Century is Unacceptable.
- Protestors: When is it OK to Hit them?
- Introducing the New UN-aligned Campaigns
- What you May Have Missed in June 2020
- The Gordian – July Issue, vol 3
- Letter to Amazon: Feedback & suggestions for a more effective & environmentally friendly practices
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- UN-aligned Appoints New Senior Administrator
- The Use of Chinese Medicine in Treating Covid-19
- Waste and Mismanagement: The Devil in the Detail That is Back to Haunt us!
- The New Human Rights Series – There Must be no Monopoly on the Truth
- The Gordian – June Issue, vol 2
- Sheep Shearing Amongst the Nomads of Kurdistan – in pictures
- Document no. 3 and what it reveals about the Chinese Communist Party
- Imposter Syndrome
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- UN-aligned becomes one year old!
- The Gordian – May Issue, vol 2
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- “Klaatu barada nikto”
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- India’s Citizenship Amendment Bill: a Death Knell for Indian Secularism
- India on the Brink
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- The Culture of Subterfuge – Lest We Forget
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- Labelling Suicide while Missing the Point
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