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  •    Poverty caused by factors including climate change can make children more vulnerable to Violence   MR Online

    How climate change is threatening human rights

    Originally published: United Nations on December 26, 2025 by Pooja Yadav (more by United Nations)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2026)

    With rising effects of climate change across the globe, the world has started recognising that climate change is not just an ecological collapse, but also a human rights crisis.

  •    digital violence against women   MR Online

    AI and anonymity fuel surge in digital violence against women

    Originally published: United Nations on November 20, 2025 by Ana Carmo (more by United Nations)  | (Posted Nov 26, 2025)

    What was once hailed as a vehicle for empowerment has, for millions of women and girls, become a source of fear.

  •    UNRWAAshraf Amra People search for their belongings in the rubble in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza   MR Online

    Guterres invokes ‘most powerful tool’ Article 99, in bid for humanitarian ceasefire

    Originally published: United Nations on December 6, 2023 by UN News Editors (more by United Nations)  | (Posted Dec 09, 2023)

    Invoking a rarely used article of the UN Charter, Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday called on the Security Council to “press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and unite in a call for a full humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants.

  •    Saab Photo El País   MR Online

    United States: End detention of Venezuelan Special Envoy, UN experts say

    Originally published: United Nations on September 27, 2023 by United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) (more by United Nations)  | (Posted Oct 05, 2023)

    Saab was appointed as a Special Envoy by the Government of Venezuela in April 2018 to undertake official missions in Iran to secure humanitarian deliveries to Venezuela, including of food and medicine.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield    A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background   MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus Value
    Michael Parenti    A young man at a desk takes the SAT   MR Online

    Michael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]

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