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WTO has long deadlocked over a proposed annual waiver of parts of the 1995 TRIPS Agreement, a major intellectual property agreement, that would allow any nation or company to make a vaccine if it has the recipe and ingredients.
Only 23 nations have ratified the ILO treaty and it has entered into force in 10 of those nations: Argentina, Ecuador, Fiji, Greece, Italy, Mauritius, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa and Uruguay, according to ILO's latest tally. It will take effect in the other 13 nations at various dates next year.
The U.S. and Russia agreed to renew New START for another five years in February 2021, just before it was set to expire. The treaty was extended without changes, but the prospect of new talks chilled with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The committee monitors implementation of council resolution 1540, approved in 2004 to prevent "non-state actors" from getting their hands on or trafficking a nuclear, biological or chemical weapon.
Some 3.6 billion people face inadequate access to water at least one month per year and this is expected to increase to more than 5 billion by 2050, according to the U.N. weather agency.
CITES, run by a secretariat in Geneva, sets the rules for international trade in wild fauna and flora and serves as a tool to ensure sustainability and to respond to losses in biodiversity by preventing and reversing declines in wildlife populations.
The agreement restarts negotiations and clears the way for Chevron to resume pumping Venezuelan oil.
The 16-day campaign involves thousands of organizations in 187 nations and runs until Human Rights Day on Dec. 10.
A U.N. special session responded to Tehran's violence and widespread protests over 22-year-old Mahsa Amini's death.
Despite a steady decline in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea in recent years, nations must accelerate efforts to counter the region's nearly US$2 billion a year in losses, senior U.N. officials urged diplomats in charge of international security.
World leaders reached a deal for wealthy nations to pay billions of dollars into a loss and damage fund to help developing countries deal with climate disasters.
Recovering from the nearly three-year COVID-19 pandemic is a priority for the organization along with dealing with climate change, food shortages and inflation.
Based on a final tally for its seventh replenishment cycle, the board said it has approved spending US$13.7 billion in more than 120 countries over the next three years to fight HIV, TB and malaria and strengthen those nations' health systems.
The extension of a wartime agreement with Russia will continue to allow Ukraine's grain shipments to be exported.
The G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, ended on Wednesday with a leaders’ statement that notes United Nations resolutions deploring Russia's aggression in the strongest terms and calling on the Kremlin to immediately from Ukraine.
NATO's preliminary analysis suggests the incident was likely caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile fired to defend Ukrainian territory against Russian cruise missile attacks.
