The World of International Organizations
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September 24, 2020
(AN) — Governments lose trillions of dollars a year to corruption, money laundering and tax avoidance and trillions more are hidden away that could aid people living in poverty, a U.N. panel reported on Thursday.
September 22, 2020
(AN) — Sharpening his differences with U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that his nation — the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases — plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
September 22, 2020
(AN) — The United Nations General Assembly opened its first virtual meeting of world leaders and government officials on Tuesday, forced by the coronavirus pandemic to convert its usual global stage for diplomacy into a ghost village of video conferences and pre-recorded speeches.
September 18, 2020
(AN) — The U.N. Human Rights Council voted overwhelmingly on Friday to examine reports of widespread abuses stemming from Belarusian authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko’s crackdown over a disputed presidential election.
September 17, 2020
(AN) — Global coronavirus cases surged past 30 million with 944,000 deaths on Thursday, a grim milestone showing four nations — the United States, India, Brazil and Russia — account for about half of the pandemic.
September 16, 2020
(AN) — An international fact-finding mission’s report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday raised allegations of crimes against humanity in Venezuela perpetrated by President Nicolás Maduro’s security forces and intelligence agencies.
September 16, 2020
(AN) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered an inaugurual State of the European Union speech on Wednesday that emphasized her vision for health and economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and for battling climate change.
September 15, 2020
(AN) — Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir, on his first day as president of the United Nations General Assembly, cautioned on Tuesday against unilateralism in taking on the coronavirus pandemic, and called for more global cooperation to develop and distribute vaccines.
September 15, 2020
(AN) — Like house guests wearing out their welcome, humans are trashing the planet so fast that it would take 1.7 “Earths” to regenerate all of the biological resources used up from 2011 to 2016, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity reported on Tuesday.
September 15, 2020
(AN) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration violated international trade rules by unfairly slapping USD$234 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods without justification two years ago, a World Trade Organization panel ruled on Tuesday.
