Between October 31 and November 12, 2021, states gathered in Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). The...

In 1923, Joseph Stalin decided to shift the majority-Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh into Soviet Azerbaijan as an independent oblast....

On September 26, the United Nations General Assembly addressed, for the first time, the global health epidemic of tuberculosis (TB). In a...

My grandfather Fayez Hamdan Fayad will never forget the year 1948. A Palestinian refugee, he will always remember the time he was forced...

BPR Media explores the trials facing refugees in a four part documentary series filmed within the Derveni Camp in Greece. The first...

Libyan politics and governance have been unstable and chaotic for the past eight years. Because of the country’s significant position as...

The United States announced on October 12th 2017 that it will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of 2018, because of claims deeming the...

In the past few years, issues surrounding immigration, refugees, and displaced persons have proven to be ones transcending national...

There are many reasons to be optimistic about global poverty rates. As The Economist reported, “between 1990 and 2010, [the number of...

“Before the drought, I would have to dig 60 or 70 meters to find water. Then I had to dig 100 to 200 meters,” said former Syrian...

The post of Secretary General of the UN, perhaps the most symbolically important leadership position in the international community, is...

Since his inauguration this past June, the potent combination of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s theatricality, popularity, and...

On July 23, 2012,  Jehad Sadeq Aziz Salman and Ebrahim Ahmed Radi al-Moqdad took to the streets of the Bahraini capital Manama’s...

The UN is no stranger to controversy. In its 70-year history, it has been involved in more than its fair share of scandals across the...

Azra Jafari served as the first female mayor in Afghanistan, after being appointed mayor of Nili by President Hamid Karzai in 2008. She...

Morocco’s first Ikea was scheduled for a grand opening in Mohammedia, north of Casablanca, on September 29. When the doors of the...

In his historic address to Congress in September, Pope Francis likened the magnitude of the current refugee crisis to that of World War...

In the early afternoon on September 21, about 400,000 people congregated in the streets of New York City for the People’s Climate March....

The Syrian civil war has been marked by crimes against humanity so undeniable that they could have leapt into existence from a textbook,...

The good news is that the nuclear talks in Vienna between Iran and the major global powers have so far delivered quite optimistic...