The World of International Organizations
June 29, 2018
For only a second time in a half-century, the leading international organization for migration will not be led by an American.
June 28, 2018
Marine experts urged nations to improve how the high seas are governed, saying the global commons needs better conservation and sharing.
June 27, 2018
An international organization that investigates chemical weapons attacks expanded its own authority so it can go a step further by assigning blame.
June 26, 2018
The world’s fourth largest and southernmost ocean is “surprisingly unknown” despite its importance to climate change, polar researchers said.
June 25, 2018
As telecoms hurtle down a racecourse towards 5-G wireless technology, U.N. technical experts function as race directors working behind the starting gates.
June 22, 2018
U.N. human rights investigators said the ICC should prosecute Venezuelan security forces for hundreds of arbitrary killings and other alleged abuses.
June 21, 2018
Visiting Switzerland, Pope Francis focused attention on one of the world’s oldest and largest international organizations: the Roman Catholic Church.
June 19, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said it will withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council, complaining of bias against Israel.
June 19, 2018
One of every 110 people worldwide has been forced to leave home because of conflict, war, violence, human rights abuses or persecution, the U.N. reported.
June 18, 2018
An inability to stop playing video games will be classified as a mental health condition for the first time in WHO’s manual of the world’s diseases.