The World of International Organizations Explained
Under pressure from the United States, China and Russia, the U.N. Security Council weakened a resolution to combat rape as a weapon of war by removing measures for investigating crimes and offering victims’ services.
The World Health Organization began testing the world’s first malaria vaccine in Malawi, one of three African nations where it is being used to immunize children up to 2 years old.
The U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency were helping French authorities perform a rapid damage assessment of the inferno that tore through Notre Dame Cathedral for more than 12 hours.
In a sensational feat for science and international collaboration, a team of more than 200 researchers using a “virtual telescope” of observatories around the world for the first time managed to see and photograph what was previously unseeable: a supermassive black hole.
The World Bank’s new president David Malpass began his five year term at the helm of a global lending institution that is supposed to work to end extreme poverty and build shared prosperity — a mission that appears to conflict with beliefs of his main sponsor, U.S. President Donald Trump.
The chief prosecutor for a United Nations tribunal emphasized on Rwanda’s 25th anniversary of its harrowing genocide that the work of bringing perpetrators to justice has not yet been completed.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration made good on its threat to block the International Criminal Court from investigating Americans, revoking a U.S. travel visa for the war crimes tribunal’s chief prosecutor.
NATO marked the start of its eight decade with gatherings that honored its achievements in keeping the former Soviet Union at bay and protecting former Warsaw Pact nations — but revealed modern strains over spending and strategies towards Russian and Chinese geopolitical ambitions.
Last year’s Group of Seven summit ended in acrimony with U.S. President Donald Trump’s parting shots at fellow world leaders and disavowal of the group’s final communiqué. This year, two of his key Cabinet members are steering clear of a preparatory meeting.
An international organization of 178 parliaments condemned Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government for barring lawmakers from traveling to a global assembly.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Venezuela’s government and opposition will allow it to deliver emergency aid. The decision marks the first time President Nicolás Maduro’s government acknowledged the humanitarian crisis.
The idea that everyone should have affordable, quality health services is backed by international organizations, including the global pharmaceutical industry’s trade group.
After a year of political turmoil, international organizations enter a new year buffeted by populism, trade wars and power struggles as multilateralism faces rising political hostility.
Propelled by an environmental U.N. chief and support from nearly all G-20 nations, global climate talks are launching in a Polish coal mining city and the public health stakes could not be higher.
Amid growing calls on the U.N. secretary-general to order an independent investigation into Jamal Khashoggi’s killing, a review by ARÊTE NEWS found just eight previous instances of a secretary-general issuing such an order since 1963. The last was in 2010, in the wake of Sri Lanka’s civil war.
An independent review of whistleblowing at the United Nations found that nearly half its global staff witnessed misconduct or wrongdoing at work in the past five years, but most of those who did were too afraid to report it.
Russians and Americans both have a history of meddling in foreign elections but they are not equivalent, international organizations and democracy proponents say.
The gambit to allow Iran’s economic opening to the West in exchange for curbs on its nuclear ambitions now depends on its European, Russian and Chinese trading partners, as the U.S. reneges on the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposes sanctions.
Efforts among international organizations to fend off “light pollution” around some of the world’s most pristine night skies have blossomed into a veritable dark-sky movement.
Opening its new session, the world’s foremost body for encouraging human rights got a dismal message: U.N. leaders see a rise in hatred and a retreat in progress globally. The U.N. chief warned the “human rights agenda is losing ground” but was hopeful nonetheless.
When an underwater cable became severed in the South Pacific last month, Tonga lost all internet access for nearly two weeks, in an incident that illustrates some of the risks that a U.N. expert group is examining.
Growing public debt is a recipe for financial disaster worldwide, making governments vulnerable when credit tightens and interest costs rise. But a top strategist at the International Monetary Fund has a solution: more documentation and transparency.
Foreign meddling in conflicts, U.S.-China trade tensions and global warming topped the concerns of leading international organizations at the end of 2018.
One in four people worldwide said they had to pay a bribe to access public services in the past year, Transparency International reported on International Anti-Corruption Day.
America’s foreign policy including its bedrock financial support for international organizations has become an emerging battleground in the newly divided U.S. Congress.
Research based on a global monitoring network found the world’s glaciers are melting five times as fast as they were in the mid-20th century due to global warming, especially in Central Europe, Caucasus, much of North America and New Zealand.
The international organization that gave rise to the World Wide Web marked its 30th anniversary with a celebration and a critique calling for more principled use of it.
European and Asian leaders attending the world’s foremost security conference in Munich criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s enmity for international organizations and multilateral solutions, saying his isolationism put the world at more risk of conflicts and war.
Two of the largest international health organizations called for a 23 percent increase in global funding to fight AIDS and other diseases in less developed nations in 2020.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a new global treaty that spreads responsibility for those helping refugees flee from war and persecution.
U.S. Supreme Court case could weaken immunity rules for international organizations in the nation that offers them the most financial support.
By the time the Western Front’s guns fell silent exactly one century ago, 10 million soldiers had died in World War I, 20th century’s first global catastrophe, which nonetheless seeded modern conceptions of a liberal international order after a second global war.
