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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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Critics say the EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum is contrary to the spirit of the Refugee Convention. Reuters
CommentAfter 75 years, the global refugee system is mostly about getting lucky

The Refugee Convention was born into a very different world, and it's no longer enough

CommentAugust 04, 2026
A man looks for his grandmother and uncle after digging a tunnel trying to get to the first floor of where his grandmother lived, in the aftermath of the June 24 earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela. Reuters
CommentIn Venezuela’s earthquakes, the deepest faultlines are man-made

We can't control what happens below the ground. What we can is how we respond

CommentJuly 23, 2026
Delegates listen to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres talking about AI's impact on the environment and climate at an event in London last month. AFP
CommentThe next UN secretary general will be hired to lead – but also to take the blame

The history of the office should be a warning for candidates looking to succeed Antonio Guterres next January

CommentJuly 09, 2026
A Palestinian refugee boy stands on destroyed cars near his family house in Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza on June 24, 2020. No algorithm manufactures a food ration or filters water. EPA
Weekend EssayShould we trust AI with humanitarian aid?

AI can bring efficiency to aid delivery but cannot be coded to make moral choices

CommentJune 27, 2026
Flour is loaded onto carts at the border between the Sudanese border town of Adjikong and Adre in February. Getty
CommentOur incredibly wealthy world can easily afford to curb humanitarian suffering

But to do so, the international system needs to end the trend of doing less-with-less

CommentMay 14, 2026
EPA / Getty / Reuters
Weekend EssayThe humanitarian toll of the Iran war extends far beyond its battlefields

From refugee crises to disrupted aid routes, the conflict's human cost is accelerating worldwide

CommentApril 03, 2026
A Lebanese man receives a cholera vaccine during a vaccination campaign on November 12, 2022. Economies and efficiencies forced by funding changes could be opportunities to help countries stand on their own feet. EPA
CommentWhy the panic about global health funding is overblown

Healthcare agencies face many challenges but financing doesn't have to be one of them

CommentMarch 13, 2026
A temporary camp set up in a pagoda in Cambodia's Siem Reap province last month, amid clashes along the Cambodia-Thailand border. AFP
CommentIn the new world disorder, international law is bordering on the irrelevant

New norms and laws are necessary as the world transitions away from a rules-based order

OpinionJanuary 13, 2026
Despite efforts made by the UN and other agencies, aid givers were reluctant to invest in long-term capacity building. Reuters
CommentWe need to rethink the UN Sustainability Development Goals

Before finding a new development strategy, it's important to understand the rise and fall of the global goals

CommentDecember 19, 2025
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
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