The World of International Organizations Explained
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January 14, 2020
Human Rights Watch cautioned in a report on Tuesday that China is using its growing economic muscle to silence critics at home and increasingly abroad through foreign investment, international organizations and treaties.
January 10, 2020
The U.N. Security Council voted on Friday to renew a humanitarian operation in Syria but gave in to Russia’s demand that it reduce cross-border aid to only two Turkish crossings, cutting off help to more than 1 million Syrians.
January 10, 2020
A nuclear technique developed with the support of two United Nations agencies successfully suppressed the disease-carrying tsetse fly in Senegal without harming other insects, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency said on Friday.
January 10, 2020
India raised living standards for 1.4 billion citizens by expanding access to electricity and cleaner energy sources but must do more to achieve energy security and long-term growth, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.
January 8, 2020
The World Bank’s benchmark bond that supports the financing of sustainable development projects in member countries was set Wednesday at its tightest spread to U.S. treasuries in the international organization’s history.
January 7, 2020
Iran retaliated against the United States by striking Iraq bases housing U.S. troops on Tuesday, illustrating the United Nations chief’s concerns that geopolitical tensions around the world are at their highest level this century.
January 5, 2020
Iran announced on Sunday it will no longer comply with most of the nonproliferation limits under the 2015 nuclear deal it signed with world powers, angrily reacting to a U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad.
December 20, 2019
America’s “Space Force,” signed into law on Friday as the military’s first new branch in more than 70 years, sets up a potential test of international space law that could prompt the United States’ withdrawal from yet another treaty.
December 19, 2019
Developing nations ran up $55 trillion of debt in 2018, a record amount that is part of an eight-year debt surge that is the largest, fastest and most broad-based in a half-century, the World Bank said on Thursday.
December 18, 2019
A London-based international trade association on Wednesday proposed creating a non-governmental organization that would oversee a $5 billion research fund to help eliminate carbon emissions from global shipping.
