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Post-apartheid South Africa established a national Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Cape Town under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act No 34 of 1995. This was a radical alternative to the victor's justice
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After nuclear weapons hastened the end of the Second World War, many countries aspired to get some atom bombs of their own—with ominous implications for the future of the planet. The Treaty for the Non-proliferation
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The culmination of years of campaigning and resistance by national heroes such as Mahatma Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose, Indian independence signalled the post-Second World War acceleration of decolonization by the imperial powers of Western
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First discussed during the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, an economically destructive era of protectionism and trade wars began to be reversed by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1947. The
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Beginning narrowly in 1951 as the European Coal and Steel Community, the foundational rules of what is now the European Union were agreed in the Treaty of Rome. In 1957, the treaty was signed by
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In October 1945 50 founder countries launched the United Nations, an organisation to promote international cooperation and achieve peace-keeping and stability. Now boasting 193 national signatories, representing nearly all of the world’s sovereign states, it
Jessica Brown
Do corporations have a role to play in reforming important public institutions such as the United Nations? Absolutely, says Lani Cossette, chief-of-staff of Microsoft’s UN office, which opened last year. The tech giant claims to
Andrew Cave
Simon Anholt has a message for US president-elect Joe Biden. Countries that do the right thing for the world, not just for themselves, benefit not just morally but also financially and economically. “The nations most
Andrew Cave
In his new book, The Good Country Equation: How We Can Repair the World in One Generation, Simon Anholt identifies key policies that some of the 56 countries he has advised have pursued to boost
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Barring any further twists in the plot, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as America’s 46th President on January 20th 2021. It remains to be seen how much political wind will be behind him; if the
