The World of International Organizations Explained
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August 5, 2019
A U.N. report cautioned a relative pause in Islamist terror attacks may end. Amnesty International said it is divesting from fossil fuel companies. The U.N. chief called for cooperation to end violence in the wake of U.S. mass shootings.
August 2, 2019
The United States and Russia let the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty lapse on Friday, ending a key plank of Cold War-era nuclear arms control and prompting fears of a new global arms race amid rising geopolitical tensions.
August 1, 2019
The first legally binding and comprehensive international treaty on fighting violence against women and girls turned five years old, but still lacks participation of more than a quarter of sponsor Council of Europe’s 47 member nations.
July 31, 2019
After a seven-month vacancy in the high-profile job of United States ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. senators on Wednesday officially confirmed Kelly Knight Craft, former U.S. ambassador to Canada, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy on multilateralism’s biggest stage.
July 31, 2019
World football’s governing body is reportedly weighing a plan to relocate its Swiss headquarters to somewhere more conducive to hiring non-Europeans and less renowned for corporate secrecy.
July 31, 2019
The governing body of track and field on Wednesday welcomed a decision from Switzerland’s highest court that two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya must follow new rules meant to lower naturally high testosterone levels in female runners with an intersex condition.
July 30, 2019
U.N. leaders urged an international crackdown against human trafficking on Tuesday, pointing out that most victims are women and girls and the percentage of child victims more than doubled in a dozen years.
July 30, 2019
Pentagon officials are preparing for the aftermath of a Trump administration decision to proceed with U.S. withdrawal from the 144-year-0ld Universal Postal Union should last-minute talks to salvage their relationship fail.
July 29, 2019
Gavi’s chief says the Ebola outbreak is a sign of a deeper public health crisis. Egypt signs a structural reform agreement with IMF. Mongolia is now a shipping power. Gideons U.K. adds women, ends its international affiliation.
July 26, 2019
The European Union’s investment bank and nonprofit lending arm put forward a climate-oriented proposal on Friday that would prevent it from providing any new financing for fossil fuel-based power projects.
