Concluding its 2019 substantive session, the Special Committee on Decolonization today approved draft resolutions on five Non-Self-Governing Territories, including one that would have the General ...

“It is incomprehensible for the UN to hand this gift of false legitimacy to the mass murderer Bashar al-Assad,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. UN chief Antonio Guterres was ...

Several new nations have emerged in the 21st century, reshaping global borders. Timor-Leste (2002), Montenegro and Serbia (2006), Kosovo (2008), South Sudan (2011), and the disputed regions Abkhazia ...

Uneasy about discussing colonialism—and its related issues like Standing Rock and Indigenous-led resistance—with your students? Here are some resources to get you started. The Standing Rock protest ...

Ralph Bunche was highly committed to helping colonized countries regain their autonomy through peaceful means. He was instrumental in drafting Chapters 11 and 12 of the United Nations Charter, dealing ...

Over the last few weeks, calls for the decolonization of the West have saturated discourse online and the streets across North America, Europe and Australia. Protesters have amassed in cities and ...

The Commission on Decolonization is scheduled to meet 3 p.m. Tuesday at Adelup, it's the first meeting since a federal appeals court ruled against the island’s proposed political status plebiscite.

A bronze artwork titled "EarthNest" offers a new platform of exchange and remembrance dealing with the impact of colonialism. Berlin has inaugurated its first memorial site dedicated to decolonial ...

Nursing homes that regularly use universal decolonization methods like chlorhexidine bathing to clean the skin and iodophor to clean the nose reduces the chance of a patient being transferred to a ...