The World of International Organizations Explained
Global oil markets remain well-supplied and companies have enough reserves to meet world demand for more than a month despite attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil production, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday.
For only a third time in its 144-year history the U.N. postal agency will hold an Extraordinary Congress but this time a potential U.S. withdrawal from the organization rides on the outcome, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday.
A special U.N. fact-finding mission wrapped up two years of investigation urging the international community on Monday to hold Myanmar’s military responsible for “genocidal acts” against the Muslim Rohingya minority.
The main U.N. body dealing with trade, investment and development issues began a weeklong forum on Monday examining ways to solve the climate crisis, particularly sea level rise and other risks to small island nations.
The U.N.’s top human rights official on Monday named the climate crisis as a top threat and expressed alarm at U.S. detention of migrant children and grave concerns over global violence against religious and ethnic minorities.
Refugees International sharply reproached U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday, giving it a “failing grade” for the second year in a row over its handling of displaced people and humanitarian aid policies worldwide.
Land degradation from farming, logging, mining and other human activities adds to the climate crisis and costs the world up to 17 percent of global GDP, a U.N. official who heads a major treaty intended to prevent more land from turning into desert landscapes said on Friday.
The United Nations’ top human rights official on Wednesday cautioned against dangers of rising nationalism, saying she fears that people are “moving further away from global solutions to global problems.”
Around one-in-three young people across 30 nations said they have been bullied online, while one-in-five reported they have skipped school because of it, according to a new poll from UNICEF.
Britain, France, Iran and the United States may be complicit in potential war crimes in Yemen by providing weapons and logistical support to forces committing abuses, U.N. human rights experts reported on Tuesday.
An international treaty against match-fixing in sports competitions took force on Sunday, marking what proponents called significant progress in the fight against rigged gambling, bribery and other rampant corruption.
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.
Top U.N. officials in Yemen demanded accountability on Monday after the deadliest Saudi-led attack this year in a four-year war likely killed more than 100 people and injured dozens of others in a Houthi rebel-run prison.
The United Nations leaned on star power to launch a renewed push on Monday for a legally binding global treaty in 2020 that would promote conservation and sustainable uses of high seas areas that cover almost half the planet.
An independent team of U.N.-sponsored human rights investigators reported on Monday the military-planned campaign of genocide against Myanmar’s Rohingya people relied on its arms trade with seven nations.
Yukiya Amano, a veteran diplomat who led the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency and worked to prevent more atomic bombings like those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has died, his agency announced on Monday.
The United Nations’ top human rights official said on Monday that she was “appalled” at conditions forced on adults and children held in detention after crossing into the United States from its southern border with Mexico.
The U.N. Security Council called for “maximum restraint” in the tense Gulf region on Monday to avoid any military escalation, but Iran rejected holding talks with the United States after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed fresh sanctions.
The International Labor Organization focused on ways of spreading social justice through dignified work while commemorating its 100th anniversary on Monday as the sole survivor of World War I-era institutions set up to help keep peace.
Leaders of the Group of Seven rich democracies wrapped up a three-day summit on Monday with little progress in resolving tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies, a troubled world economy, the climate crisis and fraying Iranian nuclear deal.
International observers marked the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions on Monday examining their relevance and limits — and ways to boost enforcement of their bedrock international humanitarian laws.
Major powers scrambled on Sunday to salvage their nuclear deal with Iran in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from it and to reimpose sanctions on the Mideast regional power.
After years of planning, an international organization faced off against hundreds of protesters as it tried to start building a billion-dollar telescope on Monday atop sacred Hawaii’s sacred Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano.
The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency confirmed on Monday that Tehran has breached a stockpile limit for low-level enriched uranium under the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
One week after a warning from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, Iran said on Monday amid escalating Mideast tensions that it will soon increase its low-level enriched uranium stockpile above a limit in the 2015 nuclear deal.
Just 15 percent of the Paris climate treaty’s 195 signing countries are setting up a National Framework for Climate Services to provide accurate information needed to fulfill the 2015 accord, according to a new U.N. report to the 18th Meteorological World Congress that opened on Monday.
