Topline A coalition of human rights groups urged the United Nations to take “urgent” action against abortion bans in the U.S., arguing in a letter Thursday the restrictions on abortion in the wake of ...
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Where The UN Disagrees On Recognition [Infographic]
Exactly 15 years ago today, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. While it has gained recognition from many United Nations members, the question whether Kosovo is indeed an independent nation ...
The Collapse Of The Legal System In Afghanistan
In January 2023, United Nations reported on the dire situation of lawyers, judges, prosecutors and other actors involved with the legal system in Afghanistan, over a year after the Taliban takeover of...
Rescue Effort For Stricken Yemeni Tanker In Limbo, Despite Lull In Fighting
The FSO Safer tanker moored off the Yemen coast, as seen on June 17, 2020. (Satellite image (c) 2020 … [+] Maxar Technologies) DigitalGlobe/Getty Images Despite a relatively stable security situ...
COP28 Chief Outlines Climate Challenge As Countdown To ‘Global Stocktake’ Starts
COP28 President Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber (L) welcomes US Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, at … [+] Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week in the UAE. on January 14, 2023. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP...
Our First Climate Targets- Why Kyoto’s Legacy Still Matters
Citizen activists in Kyoto, Japan hold up signs to celebrate the implementation of the Kyoto … [+] Protocol in 2005, 8 years after COP 3 in Kyoto. AFP via Getty Images This is the second article...
A Parade Of Climate Hypocrisy
Every year, global climate summits feature a parade of hypocrisy, as the world’s elite arrive on private jets to lecture humanity on cutting carbon emissions. The current UN climate summit in Egypt of...
How the UN’s Global Climate Conference First Started
The Rio Earth Summit established the UNFCCC and began the COP process. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images This is the first article in a series exploring the global climate meetings, the Conference of the P...
Saturday, October 1. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information
KUPIANSK, UKRAINE – OCTOBER 1: Kupiansk refugees flee over a destroyed bridge on October 1, 2022 in … [+] Kupiansk, Ukraine. The city has been successfully captured by Ukrainian Armed Forc...
Monday, September 26. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information
A woman carries humanitarian aid at the distribution point in the recently retaken town of Izium, … [+] Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Copyright 2022 The Associate...
Jamie Dimon’s Testimony Caps A Confrontational Energy Week
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon testifies before a House Committee on Financial … [+] Services Committee hearing on “Holding Megabanks Accountable: Oversight of Ameri...
UN “Confident” Of Raising Funds To Rescue Stricken Yemeni Tanker, Averting Huge Spill
Satellite image of the FSO Safer tanker moored off the Yemen coast, on June 17, 2020 (Photo: Maxar … [+] Technologies) DigitalGlobe/Getty Images The United Nations says it is “confident” that it...
Decades Of Human Progress Set Back By Covid, Climate Change And Ukraine War, UN Warns
Topline Global crises like the Covid-19 pandemic, worsening climate change and the war in Ukraine have started to reverse decades of human progress in education, life expectancy and standards of livin...
“monitoring the use of cryptography can make the Internet safer”
UN executive Ghada Waly spoke about crypto at the World Economic Forum, saying that “monitoring the use of cryptography can make the Internet more secure”. UN: Ghada Waly sees the monitoring of crypto...
UN Tackles Carnage On The World’s Roads
Traffic crashes claim about 1.3 million lives globally every year – more than two every minute, and … [+] as many as 50 million more are seriously impacted by injuries. And more than 90% of the ...
The UN would like to ban crypto ads- The Cryptonomist
Last month UNCTAD, or the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, released its Policy Brief number 100 entitled “All that glitters is not gold: The high cost of leaving cryptocurrencies un...
Rainforests Nations Want To Be Rewarded For Saving Their Trees — Now
AUSTRALIA – FEBRUARY 26: Windmill Creek at Mount Lewis State Forest in the Daintree Rainforest, … [+] Queensland, Australia. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images) Tim Graham/Getty Images The ...
United Nations On A Visit To Xinjiang, China
In May 2022, United Nations, including Michelle Bachelet, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, are to visit Xinjiang, China, to investigate the allegations of serious human rights violations. This...
UN Predicts More Than 8 Million Refugees Will Flee Ukraine This Year
Topline The United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday said it expects more than 8 million people to flee Ukraine this year following Russia’s invasion, more than double the agency’s previous e...
Russia Suspended From U.N. Human Rights Council
Topline The United Nations voted Thursday to remove Russia from its Human Rights Council following mounting evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, including the alleged massacre of hundreds of Ukrainian c...
More Than 3 Billion Lives Now Threatened By Global Warming, UN Warns
A young climate activist wears an oxygen mask at a demonstration protesting deforestation in … [+] Colombo, Sri Lanka. AFP via Getty Images Human-caused climate change is now dealing damage to e...
Climate Change Could Drive Wildfire Risk Up 50% By End Of Century, UN Warns
Topline Global warming and changing land use is set to drive up the risk of extreme wildfires by 50% by 2100, according to a landmark report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) publishe...
NIMBYism Is Global, And That’s A Problem For The Energy Transition
TOPSHOT – Demonstrators block a highway to protest against Anglo-Australian company Rio Tinto’s … [+] plan to mine lithium in the country, in Belgrade on December 4, 2021. – Th...
Tigray Hospital In Urgent Need Of Assistance With Food And Medical Supplies
The conflict in Ethiopia continues to take new victims. Shortly after it began on November 4, 2020, evidence of mass killings of several hundred people in the western Tigray town of Mai Kadra, started...