The World of International Organizations Explained
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October 8, 2019
The United Nations could run out of money by the end of this month in the worst budget crisis that the world body has faced in at least a decade, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned member nations on Tuesday.
October 7, 2019
The U.N. refugee agency’s chief Filippo Grandi and its goodwill ambassador, Cate Blanchett, appealed to governments on Monday to set aside nationalism and end statelessness for around 10 million people worldwide.
October 1, 2019
Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva took over as managing director of the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, signaling her five-year term will champion issues such as empowering women and fighting climate change.
September 28, 2019
Up to 100,000 people turned out on Saturday for Switzerland’s largest-ever climate demonstration to insist on fulfilling the United Nations-brokered goals for reducing heat-trapping greenhouse gases, organizers said.
September 27, 2019
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan took his nation’s bitter dispute over Jammu and Kashmir to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, accusing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of cruelty towards Muslims and warning of a potential “bloodbath” in the region.
September 27, 2019
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to create a yearlong, independent fact-finding mission on Friday that will investigate cases of suspected human rights abuses in Venezuela over the past five years.
September 26, 2019
The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development cautioned on Thursday that there is “a clear and present danger” of a global recession in 2020 due to trade tensions, corporate debt and weaker growth among both industrialized and developing nations.
September 25, 2019
The United States said it will remain in the U.N. postal agency after delegates at an emergency meeting on Wednesday agreed to a compromise plan to change international delivery rates that will add consumer costs.
September 25, 2019
Coastal flooding along with huge losses of ice and snow are becoming more extreme as oceans warm and acidify while frozen parts of the planet melt faster, the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. climate panel reported on Wednesday.
September 24, 2019
The U.N. postal agency opened the third Extraordinary Congress in its nearly 145-year history on Tuesday with a vote to reject a demand by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration that it overhaul international delivery rates.
