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This edited volume offers a fresh look into the history of the League of Nations. It uses the League of Nations' involvement in social issues as a unique prism for understanding the League's...

This book provides a transcription of the reports written by undercover agent Paul Kinsie for the League of Nations Special Body of Experts on Traffic in Women and Children in the mid-1920s. Between...

This book provides a transcription of the reports written by undercover agent Paul Kinsie for the League of Nations Special Body of Experts on Traffic in Women and Children in the mid-1920s. Between...

The year 2020 was supposed to be momentous—in a good way. Around the globe, world leaders and women’s rights activists had planned to celebrate the anniversaries of key legal and policy innovations...

Are we on track to achieve Goal 5? On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government gathered at UN Headquarters in New York to comprehensively review progress on the implementation of the...

The volume aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the League of Nations (1920-1946) as an international organization with complex transnational communication relations from a perspective of...

A year and a half into the pandemic, progress towards expanding women’s rights and opportunities continues to be tested and impeded. Women’s economic losses have not rebounded, hunger is on the rise...

This lecture, by the former President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sanchez, reveals the extent and surge of the arms trade in the post-cold war world and its consequences for development.

The nations of the developing world are not just emerging markets, as the phase has it. They are human societies. This publication walks us through the systemic human development problems that emerge...

This book expresses the primacy of people centred development. It calls for a partnership between key institutions such as the United Nations and Government to give people 'a chance' by working...