Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Orysia Smith Since October 2023, a dire humanitarian crisis has broken out in the Gaza Strip. The crisis has gained international attention and condemnation, with the International Criminal Court charging top Israeli state figures with war crimes, and the United Nations charging the State of Israel with genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza. Recognition of serious crim

Jorge Filmus / IDF Spokesperson's Unit This article is published in the Science for Peace March newsletter, which can be viewed here. On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a coordinated attack against Iran. In the first 10 days of this brutal war, more than 1300 Iranians have been killed and more than 17,000 have been injured. The fatal victims include at least 193 children, about 100 of them from a girl’s elementary school that was hit b

It is an understatement to say that we are living through turbulent times. The Canadian Prime Minister has declared that our previous international order has sustained a “rupture” and that a new collective effort must be made by middle powers to ensure their own security and well being. Few elements of the international legal order have suffered more in recent years from assault or sheer neglect than the multilateral non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament regime. The

John Duncan Venezuelan support for Maduro is rooted in the Bolivarian Revolution - The Globe and Mail Published on March 11, 2019 JUAN BARRETO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES As the crisis in Venezuela deepens, with nationwide blackouts, food, water and medicine shortages, hyperinflation and political uncertainty, media reports make little mention of the Bolivarian Revolution. Its legacy plays an important role in the current situation in the country. Initiated by the late former president