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Mukesh Kapila

Mukesh Kapila

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Mukesh Kapila is professor emeritus at the University of Manchester, and served in senior roles at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Nations, World Health Organisation, International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies, and advised multilateral bodies including World Bank, and NGOs. His work in global health, humanitarian affairs, conflict and security, international development, human rights, and diplomacy has received many awards and taken him to 120 countries.
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Locals walk past electricity pylons during frequent power cuts, in Orlando, Soweto, South Africa. Reuters
CommentThe key to tackling climate change is not what we think

A globally agreed framework for sustainable development is faltering with barely a third of targets on track

CommentNovember 19, 2025
Former senior commander of the Sudanese Janjaweed militia Ali Muhammad Ali Abd Al Rahman was found guilty of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between August 2003 and March 2004. AFP
How to bring a Sudanese military leader to justice

Ali Kushayb was guilty of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between August 2003 and March 2004

CommentNovember 05, 2025
Survivors of Israeli bombardment at a trauma ward at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
CommentWhat the ‘Gaza Polytrauma Syndrome’ reveals about the conduct of the war

It is vital to ensure unpalatable truths from the two-year-long conflict are not buried

CommentOctober 08, 2025
Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on the escalator to attend the 80th UN General Assembly, in New York City, on September 23. Reuters
CommentAs Trump said, what is the purpose of the UN?

Eighty years after its formation the Second World War the UN body faces more than one challenge, including several wars

CommentSeptember 29, 2025
People eat after a round of food distribution in a displaced persons camp at the Lycee Marie Jeanne school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on October 2, 2024. The weaponisation of food today is no different than in historic wars where millions perished. AFP
CommentStarvation is a preferred atrocity of war. But for how long?

Countering the weaponisation of food requires limiting the duration of wars

CommentAugust 22, 2025
A woman lights a candle as others hold headscarves to symbolise the mothers of those killed, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, in Belgrade on July 11. AFP
CommentThe legacy of Srebrenica and why today's wars never seem to end

The sanctity of national boundaries is a recent innovation against history’s repeated wars over land that has strong symbolic value everywhere

CommentJuly 24, 2025
A nuclear test explosion from April 1954 is shown in this un-datelined photo from the US Defence Department.
CommentWill the Israel-Iran war drive more countries towards getting nuclear 'insurance'?

Escalating risks require an urgent reset of the international rules-based order

CommentJune 26, 2025
Hundreds of internally displaced Palestinians gather outside a charity kitchen in Gaza city to receive limited food rations earlier this month. EPA
CommentThe Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is the best of bad options

At this stage, it may be the only option to deliver aid to the besieged territory

CommentMay 27, 2025
A Palestinian girl waits for her falafel to be prepared at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 28. AFP
Humanitarianism has to keep pace with the changing political climate

Preserving aid's ancient principles is still possible even with a more practical approach

CommentMay 01, 2025
A street vendor walks past the USAID office in Abidjan on March 22. AFP
CommentCountries need to go back to the drawing board on foreign aid

The shifted world order requires a radical re-envisioning of how much is spent on aid and assistance

CommentApril 03, 2025
AFP, AP
Weekend EssayRestoring the moral purpose of aid is the right response to Trump

As a veteran of the sector, even I have long been sceptical of aid, but there is a way to fix it

CommentFebruary 28, 2025
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Weekend EssayTrump’s WHO exit is a chance for it to change

The US leader's executive order is regrettable and disruptive but the global health agency's 'business as usual' approach was increasingly untenable

CommentFebruary 07, 2025
Syrian women hold portraits of their missing loved ones during a protest march in Idlib last month. EPA
There are many paths to justice – which will Syria choose?

Victims of the country’s dark history deserve accountability, but many obstacles stand in the way

CommentJanuary 10, 2025
A Syrian Kurdish woman collects clothes and food in the northeastern city of Qamishli on December 7, 2024, to distribute to Kurds displaced from towns in the Aleppo countryside. Kurdish-led fighters, who already controlled most of northeastern Syria, said on December 6 that they had moved into eastern areas formerly held by the government as Syrian troops withdrew. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
CommentHow to repair a country like Syria

Syrian recovery deserves an improved international aid response

CommentDecember 23, 2024
Demonstrators protesting atrocities often use the language of 'genocide', even if that allegation is difficult to prove legally. Reuters
Does the language of 'genocide' enable or hinder a more humane world?

The UN Genocide Convention was signed 76 years ago, but even today the crime is hard to prevent

CommentDecember 09, 2024
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