
European bloc joins WIPO treaty on books for visually impaired people
The 'Books for Blind' Marrakesh Treaty championed by Stevie Wonder will have 70 member nations when the E.U. is added.
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The 'Books for Blind' Marrakesh Treaty championed by Stevie Wonder will have 70 member nations when the E.U. is added.
A new review of U.N. whistleblowing policies and practices by the U.N.'s Joint Inspection Unit showed little improvement.
Low- and middle-income countries and the poorest and most vulnerable populations worldwide are the hardest hit.
The losses from 1970 to 2015 threaten the 'world's most valuable ecosystem' with a huge amount of biodiversity.
At the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. president attacked the world body as a largely useless "global bureaucracy."
The picture is complicated by safety and environmental concerns and IAEA's dual roles as watchdog and promoter.
Russia and Turkey plan to allow a 'war on terror' to continue against fighters living near civilians in the Idlib region.
A U.N. panel identified six Myanmar military leaders it said should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
The concept of a demilitarization zone goes back almost a half-millennium to Europe's rules on demolishing forts.
New ethnic clashes in the south of the country and violence along a border region displaced more than 1 million people.
For only a second time in its 144-year history, the Swiss-based Universal Postal Union held an "Extraordinary Congress."
Russians and Americans have a complicated history of election meddling abroad, but they are not equivalent.
A report says the possible war crimes include rape, torture, disappearances and 'deprivation of the right to life.'
A panel of U.N. human rights investigators proposed assigning 'an independent, impartial mechanism' to collect evidence.
The number of people killed in Syria is commonly assessed at more than half a million, almost certainly an undercount.
The diplomatic 'rock star' who spent virtually all his career as a U.N. administrator and personified globalism has died.