Melanie Phillips

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Ukraine's key lesson for international order

The United Nations is a broken institution that helps sow chaos, terror and injustice

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Melanie Phillips
Apr 08, 2022
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UN General assembly votes to suspend Russia from Human Rights Council; credit: UN photo/Manuel Elias

It’s taken the horrors in Ukraine for people to begin to register that a central pillar of world affairs since the Second World War has crumbled. Even now, though, the full implications aren’t acknowledged.

As evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine has …

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