The World of International Organizations Explained
September 28, 2019
Up to 100,000 people turned out on Saturday for Switzerland’s largest-ever climate demonstration to insist on fulfilling the United Nations-brokered goals for reducing heat-trapping greenhouse gases, organizers said.
September 27, 2019
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan took his nation’s bitter dispute over Jammu and Kashmir to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, accusing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of cruelty towards Muslims and warning of a potential “bloodbath” in the region.
September 27, 2019
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to create a yearlong, independent fact-finding mission on Friday that will investigate cases of suspected human rights abuses in Venezuela over the past five years.
September 26, 2019
The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development cautioned on Thursday that there is “a clear and present danger” of a global recession in 2020 due to trade tensions, corporate debt and weaker growth among both industrialized and developing nations.
September 25, 2019
The United States said it will remain in the U.N. postal agency after delegates at an emergency meeting on Wednesday agreed to a compromise plan to change international delivery rates that will add consumer costs.
September 25, 2019
Coastal flooding along with huge losses of ice and snow are becoming more extreme as oceans warm and acidify while frozen parts of the planet melt faster, the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. climate panel reported on Wednesday.
September 24, 2019
The U.N. postal agency opened the third Extraordinary Congress in its nearly 145-year history on Tuesday with a vote to reject a demand by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration that it overhaul international delivery rates.
September 24, 2019
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres opened the United Nations General Assembly’s high-level gathering on Tuesday with a plea for U.S.-China unity while pushing his top priorities of fighting climate change and preventing more war.
September 24, 2019
Europe’s top court ruled on Tuesday that E.U.’s digital privacy rules do not require Google and other search engines to honor people’s requests to delete links to outdated or embarrassing information outside its 28-nation bloc.
September 23, 2019
The African Development Bank Group announced on Monday that due to climate concerns it will no longer support “19th century technologies like coal and heavy fuel oil” and will instead help create the world’s largest “solar zone” in the Sahel region.
