The World of International Organizations
March 29, 2019
IFRC said Venezuela will allow it to deliver emergency aid, the first time President Nicolás Maduro’s government acknowledged the humanitarian crisis.
March 28, 2019
Extreme weather affected 62 million people last year in a clear signal that climate-fueled natural hazards are rising, the U.N. weather agency reported.
March 25, 2019
Global energy-related carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018 as worldwide energy demand and coal use surged mostly from power plants in Asia.
March 22, 2019
Children under the age of five were far more likely on average to die from illnesses due to unsafe water and sanitation than from war or violence.
March 20, 2019
U.N. appeals judges increased former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić’s 40-year sentence to life in prison after upholding his war crimes convictions.
March 18, 2019
The United Nations and Israel plunged into an intense debate over the use of deadly force against protesters in Palestinian territory.
March 17, 2019
Physicists working at the world’s biggest atom smasher detected simultaneous production of three fundamental particles, a rare process.
March 17, 2019
The International Criminal Court lost two members but gained a new one in the past two years, while fending off threats from authoritarian leaders.
March 15, 2019
At least 1.5 million students walked out of their classrooms on a Friday to demand their governments take meaningful and swift action to fight climate change.
March 13, 2019
Leaders called for urgent improvement to the planet’s health, echoing findings of a U.N. report for the highest-level decision-making body on the environment.