The World of International Organizations Explained
Looking for great reads about international organizations and their connections to just about everything? Prefer high-quality news that is reliably accurate and objective, made from fresh ingredients? Like it with sourcing that is well-done, flavored with context and perspective? Here you will find traditional, hand-crafted stories rooted in editorial independence and integrity.
February 21, 2020
The United Nations’ counterterrorism chief launched a new project on Friday taking on the threat posed by links between terror groups, organized crime and trafficking in illicit small arms that are cheap and easily accessible.
February 19, 2020
Two U.N. agencies reported on Wednesday that children who grow up in countries least responsible for the world’s overspent carbon budget suffer twice as many health problems as wealthier nations that pollute the most.
February 18, 2020
Afghan refugees appealed to Pakistan and the United Nations for more support at an international conference that ended on Tuesday, hoping to return home after four decades of forcibly living abroad fleeing wars and conflict.
February 16, 2020
Fears of a divided West challenged by China present a challenge and an opportunity for multilateral institutions to show their importance, the world’s diplomats concluded at a three-day summit in Munich that ended on Sunday.
February 13, 2020
The Assad regime’s Russia-backed military offensive against the last rebel-held area of northwestern Syria caused the biggest single displacement of the nine-year conflict, U.N. humanitarian officials said on Thursday.
February 11, 2020
In a surprise move, Sudan’s transitional government said on Tuesday it will extradite former leader Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to face trial on charges of genocide and war crimes from the Darfur conflict.
February 10, 2020
East Africa faces the worst invasion of desert locust swarms in decades from a new generation of the world’s oldest and most destructive migratory pest hatching just in time for planting season, U.N. officials warned on Monday.
February 7, 2020
As leader of the European Union’s only remaining nuclear-armed nation, French President Emmanuel Macron put forward a new doctrine on Friday for France to lead Europe in reducing the global threat of a nuclear arms race.
February 4, 2020
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Tuesday that “a wind of madness is sweeping the globe” from a dangerous surge of instability and unpredictable geopolitical “hair-trigger” tensions.
February 1, 2020
Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill famously called for a “United States of Europe” in a 1946 speech to the University of Zürich, inspiring future generations to create the economic alliance that led to the European Union.
