The World of International Organizations Explained
Interested in some deeper dives into a single issue or important topics of public interest about international organizations? Want to learn something, positive or negative, from an exhaustive review of research and policies? Here you will find investigative stories drawing on data, insight and analysis to shed light on behind-the-scenes social, economic, political or cultural trends.
February 1, 2019
The idea that everyone should have affordable, quality health services is backed by international organizations, including the global pharmaceutical industry’s trade group.
January 1, 2019
After a year of political turmoil, international organizations enter a new year buffeted by populism, trade wars and power struggles as multilateralism faces rising political hostility.
December 3, 2018
Propelled by an environmental U.N. chief and support from nearly all G-20 nations, global climate talks are launching in a Polish coal mining city and the public health stakes could not be higher.
November 5, 2018
Amid growing calls on the U.N. secretary-general to order an independent investigation into Jamal Khashoggi’s killing, a review by ARÊTE NEWS found just eight previous instances of a secretary-general issuing such an order since 1963. The last was in 2010, in the wake of Sri Lanka’s civil war.
October 1, 2018
An independent review of whistleblowing at the United Nations found that nearly half its global staff witnessed misconduct or wrongdoing at work in the past five years, but most of those who did were too afraid to report it.
September 3, 2018
Russians and Americans both have a history of meddling in foreign elections but they are not equivalent, international organizations and democracy proponents say.
August 6, 2018
The gambit to allow Iran’s economic opening to the West in exchange for curbs on its nuclear ambitions now depends on its European, Russian and Chinese trading partners, as the U.S. reneges on the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposes sanctions.
July 2, 2018
Trade wars and tensions sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs against China, the European Union and others threaten to undermine the work of international organizations trying to lift the world’s poorest out of poverty.
June 4, 2018
A peace treaty and nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula would expand one of North Korea’s most important conduits to the world besides China: its sizable but little-known involvement with international organizations. North Korea belongs to at least 50 U.N.-affiliated agencies and other organizations.
