The World of International Organizations
April 30, 2020
(AN) — Global carbon emissions are on track to decline by almost 8 percent this year from the COVID-19 pandemic causing the biggest downturn in energy use since World War II, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday.
April 30, 2020
(AN) — Humanitarian organizations offered educational guidelines on Thursday meant to help 1.5 billion students worldwide who face “an unprecedented risk” if the COVID-19 pandemic forces schools to remain closed much longer.
April 29, 2020
A U.N. human rights investigator urged the world body on Wednesday to “step up its efforts” to protect ethnic and religious minorities from the Myanmar military’s continuing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
April 28, 2020
(AN) — Some good can come out of the COVID-19 pandemic if world leaders use it to “rebuild our world for the better” by investing in clean energy to slow global warming, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday.
April 27, 2020
(AN) — Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 passed the 3 million mark on Monday as New Zealand, several European nations and a few U.S. states took steps to emerge from prolonged lockdowns aimed at slowing transmissions.
April 27, 2020
(AN) — The U.N. human rights chief warned on Monday of reports that some governments are abusing emergency powers to fight the COVID-19 pandemic by resorting to police brutality and other heavy-handed tactics.
April 23, 2020
(AN) — China raised its donations for World Health Organization efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic to US$50 million on Thursday, just a week after U.S. President Donald Trump halted U.S. funding to the U.N. health agency.
April 20, 2020
(AN) — The United Nations General Assembly urged all nations on Monday to quickly join forces in ensuring that everyone will have access to medical supplies, drugs, future vaccines and testing to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 20, 2020
(AN) — Governments could use energy transformations to create jobs, meet climate targets and produce cumulative global GDP gains of US$98 trillion above the usual scenarios by 2050, according to a new report on Monday.
April 15, 2020
(AN) — It took more than three months for global coronavirus infections to surpass the 1 million mark along with 52,000 deaths, and just over two weeks more for the pandemic to add another 1 million confirmed cases and 84,000 deaths.
