The fight for women’s rights over the past fifty years is a story of progress. But that progress is under threat and full equality remains light years away, writes António Guterres.
The swift acknowledgement of the prevalence of conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine and the firm commitment to hold perpetrators to account signals a historic shift, write Petra Tötterman Andorff, Jessica Poh-Janrell and Johanna Förberg.
The power struggle between authoritarian powers reached a new level of intensity with the invasion of Ukraine. But it is important to remember that this fight plays out across the entire globe and sometimes in unexpected places, Juan Carlos Ondo Angue writes.
Each day of this ongoing war adds a shade of evil done by the Russian state and nation that decided to ruin the existing world order and rules of civilization, writes Roman Rukomeda.
The central question faced by Western democracies as the new year begins is how to stop the war in Ukraine and establish a new normality, as the old normality clearly no longer exists, writes Roman Rukomeda.
The war is likely to last one year or more, and it will end with the victory of Ukraine and the liberation of all occupied territory, the question being how will the war end and how will peace be organised after Russia's military defeat, writes Roman Rukomeda.
Only by instituting a special international tribunal on Russia and its crimes in Ukraine the evil will not have the opportunity to return in the near future, writes Roman Rukomeda.
Current EU equality rules require establishing national equality bodies in all EU member states, writes Helena Dalli. Helena Dalli is the EU Commissioner for Equality, strengthening Europe's commitment to inclusion and equality and leading the fight against discrimination. These institutions have emerged …
The Russian army is losing 500 soldiers a day in Donetsk and Luhansk, without being able to achieve any result on the battlefield, writes Roman Rukomeda.
A recent wave of initiatives in national parliaments could revive the historiographical debate over Holodomor - the infamous Great Famine in Ukraine in the 1930s - and shed more light on this horrific chapter of history.
In August, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) opened an investigation into potential fraud and corruption around the Bosnia and Herzegovinian subsection of Corridor Vc, financed by EU funds, but it is up to banks to ensure EU expenditure is transparent, writes Martina Vranic.
Analysing the positions and actions of the Russian aggressors the conclusion is that Russia uses mass terrorism for postponing its defeat in Ukraine, writes Roman Rukomeda.
By raising the stakes and attempting to scare the West with a nuclear war scenario, Putin is preparing the ground to put an end to the war as he is losing on the Ukrainian battlefields, writes Roman Rukomeda.
Regional bias is the main driver behind the West's response to humanitarian atrocities in terms of whether they intervene or simply ignore them, and there are large inconsistencies in humanitarian intervention patterns when comparing Western versus non-Western spheres of influence argues Sidita Kushi.
Ukrainian fatigue started settling in the West, and not many European media reacted to recent Russian atrocities. However, the reality is that Europeans cannot distance themselves from the war, writes Anna Romandash.
Having no success on the battlefields, Russians decided to use massive terror as the intimidation instrument for reaching political goals, writes Roman Rukomeda.
With the Russian aggression against Ukraine a new world is being created, with new rules, principles and patterns of behaviour, but Ukrainians fear that something is wrong, writes Roman Rukomeda.
If instead of victory, it will be just the end of the war, this will be just a pause for Russian aggressors allowing them to prepare for the further continuation of their war against Ukraine, Europe and all the free world, Roman Rukomeda writes.
Russian political ideology explains the external aggression: the Empire has no fixed borders and cannot have them, given that it stands for Christianity against various traitors to the true faith, locked inside national borders, writes Evgenii Dainov.
The missile attack on the shopping mall in Kremenchuk is yet another example of state terrorism, and the world must consider Russia as a terrorist state, writes Roman Rukomeda. Roman Rukomeda is a Ukrainian political analyst. This is his 56th account of …
Ukrainians eagerly await the decision of the EU summit, fully supporting the reforms demanded by the European Commission for the country’s EU accession, writes Roman Rukomeda.
The role of Ukraine in modern European and Western political and security architecture is crucial for the EU and NATO agenda, writes Roman Rukomeda.
Ukrainians believe in victory, the clearest indicator is that of those 7.6 million who left the country since the beginning of the war, 4.8 million have already returned to their homeland, writes Roman Rukomeda.
European politicians who are appealing for making a peace treaty with Russia or arguing about the need to "help Putin save his face" are sharing responsibility for all Russian war crimes in Ukraine and the blood of Ukrainian civilians and children, writes Roman Rukomeda.
