Lakhdar Brahimi assesses the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka and argues that the international community must not stand by idly while an estimated 150,000 civilians are trapped in a death zone. This article first appeared in The International Herald Tribune.

In advance of the G20 summit in London, Kofi Annan argues that people in the least developed countries may be the biggest casualties of the global financial crisis - one that they played no part in creating. This article first appeared in The Guardian.

More than 1,400 women will die today as a result of complications during pregnancy or childbirth. Graça Machel examines this humanitarian crisis and explores what we can do to stop it. This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph.

Somini Sengupta of The New York Times profiles the life and work of Ela Bhatt, a "Gandhian pragmatist for the New India" and founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA).

Desmond Tutu argues that African leaders must stand by those who have suffered in Darfur and support the International Criminal Court's issuance of an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. This article first appeared in The New York Times.

Twenty-one former Heads of State and Government – all Club of Madrid Members – signed a declaration directed at Middle East leaders to demand an end to the war in Gaza and a profound change in the approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The declaration was published as an op-ed, signed by Club of Madrid President Ricardo Lagos and Vice President Mary Robinson, in the leading Spanish newspaper El País.

Alarmed by the "human dignity crisis" in Gaza, Mary Robinson argues why diplomatic efforts to forge a new cease-fire must be intensified and made to succeed. This article first appeared in openDemocracy.