Taliban 2.0 aren’t so different from the first regime, after all

The Taliban’s last regime, in the mid-1990s, was marked by human rights violations, including massacres, mass detentions and rape. The regime collapsed on Nov. 14, 2001, shortly after the U.S. launched its global war on terrorism. The only indication of a “new Taliban” is a much more sophisticated and strategic public relations approach for masking ongoing human rights violations.

By Atal Ahmadzai & Faten Ghosn

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UN Representation in an Era of Revitalized Multilateralism

The implications of awarding UN accreditation today, however, extend far beyond the legitimization of particular authorities. They ought to be viewed in the context of amplified calls for UN reform and the revitalization of meaningful, credible multilateralism.

By Ania Zolyniak

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