The World of International Organizations Explained
Looking for some more in-depth coverage about important topics that are not getting enough news attention or somewhat off the beaten path? Just curious to learn more about something written that is more often covered in academic or technical journals? Here you will find stories about some of the vital but less-obvious developments involving international organizations.
August 17, 2019
Delegates to a 183-nation treaty aimed at protecting endangered plants and animals opened a major summit on Saturday that will weigh 56 government proposals for tightening or easing controls on international trade.
August 5, 2019
An independent team of U.N.-sponsored human rights investigators reported on Monday the military-planned campaign of genocide against Myanmar’s Rohingya people relied on its arms trade with seven nations.
July 22, 2019
Yukiya Amano, a veteran diplomat who led the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency and worked to prevent more atomic bombings like those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has died, his agency announced on Monday.
July 8, 2019
The United Nations’ top human rights official said on Monday she was “appalled” at conditions forced on adults and children held in detention after crossing into the United States from its southern border with Mexico.
June 21, 2019
The International Labor Organization adopted a global treaty on Friday meant to reduce violence and harassment in the workplace, but stopped short of including language that would include LGBTI people.
June 10, 2019
The International Labor Organization focused on ways of spreading social justice through dignified work while commemorating its 100th anniversary on Monday as the sole survivor of World War I-era institutions set up to help keep peace.
May 27, 2019
Climate concerns have rarely if ever weighed heavily in any major election — until now, with Europe’s Greens gaining influence from voters worried about the planet’s health, according to provisional results on Monday.
May 13, 2019
More than 1 million people in Gaza are at risk of running out of food less than a year after the United States announced it would no longer contribute aid to Palestinians, the U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees said on Monday.
April 27, 2019
China pushed back against skeptics of its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, promising a “high quality” $1 trillion global infrastructure program involving more than 150 nations and international organizations.
April 15, 2019
Breaking its long-held silence, the International Committee of the Red Cross sought public help in finding three staff abducted by Islamic State militants in Syria in late 2013.
