Donors must challenge, not comfort, the existing order.

The move further restricts women's education, after girls were already excluded from secondary schools.

Lord Malloch-Brown aims to unify campaigners and sees MPs’ vote on final deal as ‘the moment to stop the trainwreck’

The Open Society Foundations announced that Patrick Gaspard will step down as president at the end of the year.

The deaths provide a glimpse at what Saudi justice looks like after the West didn't hold MBS to account for the killing of dissident Jamal Khashoggi.

The most powerful countries have benefited from large work forces for decades. What happens when they retire?

Updates from around the country as Kenyans choose a new president for the East African nation.

Establishing humanitarian corridors and monitoring human rights is crucial, says former UN deputy secretary general Mark Malloch-Brown

Authoritarianism is on the march, and crucial entitlements are being rolled back

Current policy is harming the prospects of those who need our help most, particularly women and girls

Michel Barnier's warning about the only deals on offer strikes a heavy blow—just as Theresa May was finally regaining some confidence on Brexit

Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.

Covid-19 is a disease of the poor and the powerless

Indonesia will push the Group of 20 as this year’s host to include the African Union to ensure the plight and concerns of the continent would be represented in key meetings.

A $5.25 million philanthropic fund aims to spur ideas on how multilateral development banks can increase investment in low- and middle-income countries.

Governments tend to fund large humanitarian agencies, but small groups run by refugees are a better investment.

Covid has made it clear: the likes of Pfizer, in thrall to shareholders, only really care about their huge profits, says the director of Global Justice Now

The Group of 20, comprising the world's richest and most powerful countries, will grant membership to the African Union, sources said on Thursday.

Accusations of double standards sting because they have a point.

Inertia and rivalries are producing a dangerous breakdown of multilateralism.

#StandWithThe6 During the early morning hours of 18 August 2022, at approximately 3:00 am, Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) entered Ramallah, targeting, forcibly entering, raiding the offices and...

Twenty-nine of 54 members vote to expel country over regime’s bloody crackdown on protests calling for gender equality

Momentum is now building behind the case for permanent G20 seat for the African Union. The grouping’s fundamental virtue is its ability to be representative: broader than the G7, but still small...

Less than two years ago, on Feb. 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup d’etat. Since then, international headlines might have faded, but the situation in the country has only beco…

A case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could decide whether children formerly held as slaves can hold U.S. corporations accountable for human rights violations perpetrated abroad.

UN report claims up to 10% of the world’s wealth could be hidden offshore

Edward Lucas: Loudly proclaiming new sanctions on Russia will do very little to curb the laundering and fraud

2021 is the year the Global Fund celebrates 20 years of making the impossible possible.Twenty years ago, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria looked unbeatable. Ye...

Massive food producers hold too much power – and the regulators scarcely understand what is happening. Sound familiar, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

International study reveals 42% of people aged 18 to 35 supportive of military rule, against 20% of older respondents

Open Society welcomes Mary Fitzgerald in a newly created role of director of Information Democracy to lead work advancing open society values at the intersection of journalism, technology, political...

Blocked from buying vaccines made in the U.S., Europe and India, the head of the African Union’s vaccination effort says the only solution is building a vaccine infrastructure back home.

President of Open Society Foundations calls on the West to redouble efforts to defend Ukraine, human rights, democracy, and rule of law.

All of us need to think carefully about how new rules will foster, not hinder, an online environment that allows for new forms of culture, science, participation and knowledge.

The Open Society Justice Initiative has filed a lawsuit seeking U.S. records to enable “a public evaluation of the federal government’s efforts to investigate and hold accountable those responsible”...

Tom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute, says the EU and US "have moved faster on individuals" when it comes to sanctions.