The World of International Organizations
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March 20, 2019
(AN) — U.N. appeals judges increased former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić’s 40-year sentence to life in prison after upholding his convictions for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
March 17, 2019
(AN) — Physicists working at the world’s biggest atom smasher detected simultaneous production of three fundamental particles, a rare process that plays a key role in radioactivity and the Sun’s thermonuclear process.
March 17, 2019
(AN) — The International Criminal Court lost two member nations but gained a new one in the past two years, while fending off snubs and threats from leaders with authoritarian agendas. Now, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has threatened to block the court from investigating Americans.
March 15, 2019
(AN) — At least 1.5 million students walked out of their classrooms around the world on a Friday to demand that their governments take meaningful and swift action to fight climate change.
March 13, 2019
(AN) — World leaders called for urgent improvement to the planet’s health, echoing findings of a major U.N. report released at a meeting in Nairobi for the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment.
March 12, 2019
(AN) — The United Nations and other humanitarian and environmental organizations mourned the loss of 46 staff in a crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner bound from Addis Ababa for Nairobi that killed all 157 people aboard.
March 7, 2019
(AN) — The European Union and eight other nations condemned Saudi Arabia in the U.N. Human Rights Council, an unprecedented move to demand its cooperation with a United Nations-led investigation into Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing.
March 6, 2019
(AN) — The World Health Organization announced a major restructuring plan to cut red tape and reduce longstanding tensions between its headquarters and six field offices.
February 27, 2019
(AN) — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that international organizations should be treated like foreign nations when it comes to immunities: protections from lawsuits under American courts do not extend to commercial activities.
February 27, 2019
(AN) — Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations linked Venezuela’s gold holdings in the Bank of England to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s grip on power — and his possible undoing. Access to gold could help Maduro maintain his hold in the cash-poor, oil-rich nation.
