President of the European Commission Jean-Paul Juncker, when the European Union announced its recently-struck deal with Turkey on the topic of refugees, proudly proclaimed that the deal "respects all European Union and international norms."…
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Kathryn White is the current president and CEO of the United Nations Association in Canada and vice-chair of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of United Nations Associations. She sat down with the MIR's Stephen Friedrich…
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It has been, at time of writing, two months and one week since the U.S. airstrike on a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital that killed at least thirty people. Among them were at least thirteen MSF staff and ten patients; seven bodies…
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It is a scene that has become depressingly familiar. Between twenty to thirty masked attackers, armed with baseball bats, ambushed a group of Syrian refugees in Magdeburg, Germany, hospitalizing three of them, interrupted only when…
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