By their eighth birthday, an estimated 9 in 10 New Zealand children will have experienced some form of serious adversity. They might have been neglected, grown up with family violence, lived through a separation or coped with a parent’s mental illness or substance use problem.
The new US-Iran peace deal seems to be forcing Lebanon to choose between Israel’s sphere of influence or Iran’s. It wants neither. But could there be a better alternative, achieved with the help of regional diplomacy?