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Asean's moment of truth is now
Oped, Mari Elka Pangestu & Tan Sri Rebecca Fatimah Sta Maria, Published on 05/11/2025
» For decades, integration into the global trading system has been vital to economic growth and development. Now, however, integration implies vulnerability, as powerful actors -- beginning with the US -- wield tariffs, export restrictions, and financial sanctions. For Southeast Asia, this turn of events represents both a warning and a call to action: countries must work together to shape their own destiny or others will decide their fate for them.
End wars, restore Olympic peace
Oped, Dmitry Muratov, Maria Ressa & Jody Williams, Published on 18/07/2024
» There are at least 55 ongoing wars around the world. Politicians have consistently failed to end the armed conflicts that are ravaging their societies, and the dangers have been multiplied by the fact that local wars no longer remain local.
Corporate responsibility in the age of AI
Oped, Maria Eitel, Published on 09/08/2023
» In the past year, a cacophony of conversations about artificial intelligence has erupted. Depending on whom you listen to, AI is either carrying us into a shiny new world of endless possibilities or propelling us toward a grim dystopia. Call them the Barbie and Oppenheimer scenarios -- as attention-grabbing and different as the Hollywood blockbusters of the summer. But one conversation is getting far too little attention: the one about corporate responsibility.
Tyranny's propagandists triumph
Oped, Maria Ressa & Nishant Lalwani, Published on 05/04/2023
» If democracy had its own doomsday clock, it would be at two minutes to midnight. According to the most recent analysis by Varieties of Democracy (known as V-Dem), 72% of the world's population lived in autocracies last year, compared to 50% a decade ago. For the first time in more than two decades, there are more authoritarian regimes than liberal democracies -- and we are not doing enough to address this threat.
Mountain women: unsung heroes
Oped, Maria Helena Semedo, Published on 09/12/2022
» Whether they live on Mount Kilimanjaro, in the Himalayas, or the Andes, women and girls in mountain communities around the world have much in common: they are often the ones managing daily life in the mountains, as protectors of the land and biodiversity and keepers of traditional knowledge.
Securing a greener future for all
Oped, Rebecca Sta Maria, Published on 18/11/2022
» With November's cluster of multilateral meetings -- G20, COP27 and the Apec Economic Leaders' Meeting, for instance -- there is some good news: we don't have to create high carbon emissions to produce economic growth.
Apec bonds will prevail in crisis
Oped, Rebecca Sta Maria, Published on 01/06/2022
» The establishment of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) saw the region experience a period of enthusiasm for multilateralism and economic partnerships among governments with different, even contrasting, political and ideological shades. For three decades, ultimately too short a period, it was a given that free trade and economic cooperation would lead to growth, prosperity and improved living conditions for billions of people.
A vision for global cooperation
Oped, Maria Fernanda Espinosa & Danilo Turk, Published on 28/10/2021
» The world faces a range of serious threats -- from exclusionary nationalism to great-power competition to growing inequality -- that are preventing the international community from working together to solve other complex challenges, such as the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines and the accelerating pace of climate change. But global crises require global solutions, and with his highly anticipated report, "Our Common Agenda", UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has outlined a new vision for multilateral cooperation.
What happened to digital contact tracing apps?
Oped, Maria Carnovale, Published on 14/06/2021
» Last summer, when most countries were cherishing the quiet before the second peak in Covid-19 cases, the non-profit I was volunteering at was bustling with activity. It had developed an open-source digital contact tracing system -- one of those smartphone apps that tracks one's whereabouts and sends notifications.
Black 'lynching' radio ad illustrates racial overtones
News, Maria Caspani, Published on 23/10/2018
» Many political ads in this year's US elections pack an unusually harsh and personal punch -- some with racial overtones.