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1. United Nations

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Created on 25 December 2015

2. Katherine Stapp

(Contacts / Writers)

... School of Journalism. She has nearly two decades of experience as a writer and editor covering development, environment and human rights issues at the Inter Press Service United Nations bureau in New York, ...

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3. Dr. Bradnee Chambers

(Contacts / Writers)

Dr. Bradnee Chambers, Dr. Bradnee Chambers is the Executive Secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals under the United Nations Environment Programme.

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4. United Nations Panel Calls for End of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territory

(Middle East)

By Abdus Sattar Ghazali * FREMONT, California (IDN) – The United Nations has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for Palestinian self-determination and end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian ...

Created on 28 November 2020

5. Far Poorer and Less Technologically Advanced Nations Than the US Have No Problem Holding Quick, Efficient Elections

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Glenn Greenwald* This article is being republished from Information Clearing House. NEW YORK (IDN ) – The richest and most powerful country on earth — whether due to ineptitude, choice ...

Created on 04 November 2020

6. Call for a Strengthened and Reformed United Nations System

(UN INSIDER)

By J C Suresh TORONTO (IDN) – Ahead of the September 21 High-Level Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations, a group of prominent former government and UN leaders are calling on current ...

Created on 18 September 2020

7. Will the United Nations Survive To See Its 100th Birthday?

(UN INSIDER)

Viewpoints by Franz Baumann, Fmr. UN Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations and Christopher Ankersen, Global Affairs, New York University. NEW YORK (IDN) – "Adlai Stevenson, President Kennedy’s Ambassador ...

Created on 08 September 2020

8. Using Covid-19 Donations to Give Charity A Bad Name

(OPINION)

... Project (SERAP) as saying on April 4, "We are seriously concerned that millions of the country’s poorest and most vulnerable have not benefited from the announced palliatives, donations, reported cash payments, ...

Created on 25 June 2020

9. 2020 Priorities and the Work of the United Nations

(OPINION)

... the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. I draw tremendous strength from all that we represent and all that we have achieved together. Yet anniversaries are not about celebrating the past; they are ...

Created on 07 February 2020

10. Greta Thunberg on the United Nations Youth Climate Summit

(United Nations)

Created on 21 September 2019

11. Kenya to Host a Momentous Summit of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific Nations

(ACP Group of States)

... (SDGs) and enhance the Group's visibility at the United Nations in tune with the fundamental principles of  the Cotonou Agreement which include equality of partners, global participation (States and non-state ...

Created on 11 August 2019

12. The United Nations Need a Strong and United Europe

(OPINION)

... which grew out of the ashes of two world wars, has forged “an exemplary partnership” with the United Nations, said the UN chief, and the breakup of the 28-nation political and economic bloc, “would inevitably ...

Created on 30 May 2019

13. African Nations Can Choose Their Own Destiny

(Africa)

... use nuclear weapons against the other. Had they done so, the devastating consequences would not have been confined to South-East Asia. Experts have calculated that nuclear war between the two nations ...

Created on 13 April 2019

14. Rich Nations Slash Development Aid to Neediest Countries

(Global Partnerships)

... data collected by the OECD, official development assistance (ODA) from 30 member countries of the club of rich nations fell 2.7 percent in 2018 from 2017. The worst affected by the declining share were ...

Created on 10 April 2019

15. African Leaders Put Rich Nations on Notice That Days of Cheap Resources Are Ending

(Africa)

... disputed the claim and its parent company Barrick Gold Corp is in talks with the government. But other African nations, including Angola and Ethiopia, are still seeking to use tax breaks to entice investment ...

Created on 12 February 2019

16. The United Nations Mourns Former Secretary-General Kofi Annan

(MULTIMEDIA)

Read > UN Chief Implores 'Faith and Inspiration' Kofi Annan Embodied "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." This quote from Edmund Burke, the 18th century ...

Created on 23 September 2018

17. Kofi Annan Was the United Nations, Says UN Chief Guterres

(United Nations)

By Shanta Roy NEW YORK (IDN) – Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the first from sub-Saharan Africa, was the only UN chief who rose from the mid-level ranks of the professional ...

Created on 23 August 2018

18. The United Nations mourns Kofi Annan

(United Nations)

The United Nations is mourning the death of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who passed away peacefully after a short illness, on Saturday 18 August 2018. The renowned Ghanaian diplomat was 80 ...

Created on 18 August 2018

19. A Call To 'Action Now' On United Nations Disarmament Agend

(OPINION)

... UN Special, the internal magazine of the international civil servants of the United Nations at Geneva. Related IDN article > UN Chief's Disarmament Agenda Faces Rough Waters Photo: The “Non-Violence” ...

Created on 18 June 2018

20. India Elected To Key United Nations ECOSOC Committees

(UN INSIDER)

By Santo D. Banerjee UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – India has been elected to several important subsidiary bodies of the 193-member UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) which is at the heart of the United ...

Created on 21 April 2018

21. UN Chief Warns of a Repeat of the League of Nations' Fate

(UN INSIDER)

By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | MUNICH (IDN) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned against a repeat of what happened with the League of Nations and the threat of a nuclear conflict, stressed the ...

Created on 19 February 2018

22. UN Environment Assembly Galvanises Nations to Act on Taming Pollution

(Climate Action)

By Justus Wanzala NAIROBI (IDN) – Amid a cacophony of voices, interests and expectations, the third high level United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), held in Nairobi from December 4-6, had a common ...

Created on 08 December 2017

23. People’s Movement Launched in South Africa To Defeat Covid-19

(Health & Well Being)

...  “Many countries are addressing the pandemic on a narrow, nationalist basis. Wealthy nations in Europe, Canada and the US have pre-ordered large numbers of vaccine doses which exceed the need of their ...

Created on 19 January 2021

24. Transformation of Agri-Food Systems Crucial for FAO in 2021

(Food security, nutrition & sustainable agriculture)

By Ronald Joshua ROME (IDN) – Director-General QU Dongyu of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has declared 2021 a key year to move forward the transformation of agri-food ...

Created on 19 January 2021

25. Insurrection and the Racist Underpinnings of US Exceptionalism

(OPINION)

... reveals for the first time that the U.S. is now operating in 40 percent of the world’s nations. Credit: Smithsonian Magazine IDN is flagship agency of the Non-profit International Press Syndicate. Visit ...

Created on 19 January 2021

26. One Planet Summit on Biodiversity Pledges Action Commitments

(Health & Well Being)

... citizens, etc.). To contribute to this, France organized, in cooperation with the United Nations and the World Bank, a 'One Planet Summit' for biodiversity on January 11, 2021 in Paris. It was an opportunity ...

Created on 18 January 2021

27. Time to Dispense with the Rhetoric of Decolonisation

(OPINION)

... that it actually was. This is something many in the Global North prefer not to acknowledge: the process of decolonisation of nations was a violent affair. Scholars from the Global South have made this ...

Created on 18 January 2021

28. UN Chief Warns Against 'vaccinationalism' As 2 Million Die of COVID-19 Pandemi

(Health & Well Being)

... and millions pushed into poverty and hunger. Mr. Guterres said that though safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out, the disparity continues between nations. “Vaccines are reaching ...

Created on 17 January 2021

29. Behind January 6 Insurrection: America Is an Oligarchy, Not A Functioning Democracy

(OPINION)

... because they are living the American Dream—and they are blaming, unsurprisingly, the whole political class for their malaise. Whenever economic explanations of this radicalization are attempted, inequality ...

Created on 17 January 2021

30. The US Department of Defense Announces New Strategies for the Middle East and Space Force

(USA and Canada)

... set up Centcom in 1983, officials left Israel as part of Eucom. Arab nations, except Egypt, did not recognize the Jewish state. U.S. military coordination in the region — including multilateral exercises ...

Created on 16 January 2021

31. High Atlas Foundation Grows Trees in Nurseries Built on Moroccan Jewish Community Land

(Africa)

... empowerment, youth development, education, and health. Since 2011, HAF has Consultancy Status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council. [IDN-InDepthNews – 16 January 2021] Photo: Aberrahim is ...

Created on 16 January 2021

32. Things Bode Increasingly Ill for the Horn

(Horn of Africa)

... for terrorism; (iv) Ethiopia’s Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) due to civil unrest; (v) The East Hararge region and the Guji zone of Oromia State due to armed conflict and ...

Created on 15 January 2021

33. The Politicisation of “White Victimhood” Nothing New to Trump’s Presidency

(OPINION)

...  Purely economic explanations of Trumpism ignore this aggrieved entitlement. When commentators contend that free trade and technological advances have left behind blue-collar Americans – whom they often ...

Created on 14 January 2021

34. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 2

(OPINION)

... Yalta, instead of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, the outcome would have been very different. Most probably, we would have had no United Nations, no international organisations. Just think that, in its ...

Created on 13 January 2021

35. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 1

(OPINION)

... a meeting of the 20 most important countries of the world would replace the G8 and become the G20. The United Nations, the European Union, and the major international monetary and financial institutions, ...

Created on 13 January 2021

36. Watchdog Indicates Barriers to UN Ban on Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Weapons)

... can become a party to global treaties for which the Secretary-General of the United Nations is the depositary. The 197 states include all 193 UN member states, the two UN observer states (the Holy See ...

Created on 13 January 2021

37. The Rationale for Scotland Returning to the European Union

(OPINION)

... other European nation. It has the highest rate of criminality in the UK. “There are many theories on the essence of nations as there are theorists”, writes Norman Davies in his magisterial book, “Europe”. ...

Created on 12 January 2021

38. 75 Years On The First UN General Assembly Resolution

(Nuclear Weapons)

... years ago, in January 1946, the United Nations General Assembly met for the first time after the signature of the Charter. Its first resolution was adopted on the 24th of that month. The developments mentioned ...

Created on 12 January 2021

39. Humanity Needs to Take a Course That Does Not Conflict with Nature

(UN INSIDER)

... United Nations with the aim of accelerating the implementation of the Paris climate agreement. Previous summits have been held in Paris in 2017, New York in 2018 and Nairobi in 2019. In his address, ...

Created on 12 January 2021

40. The Assault on the Citadel of US Democracy

(OPINION)

... of a lawfully conducted election,” Bowman said. The very next day when many White House officials and cabinet secretaries submitted their resignations, and as hundreds of American and world leaders issued ...

Created on 11 January 2021

41. Fierce Fighting Blocks the UN Access to Refugee Camps

(Horn of Africa)

... seen in the Afar region and Tekeze areas. Their destinations are not yet known. A leaked recording of a zoom meeting shows a high ranking Ethiopian General explaining the plan to take measures on Tigrayan ...

Created on 10 January 2021

42. A New UN Report Calls for Living in Balance with The Planet

(Health & Well Being)

... pressure on the planet is possible. “The Human Development Report is an important product by the United Nations. In a time where the action is needed, the new generation of Human Development Reports, ...

Created on 10 January 2021

43. Why We Care

(OPINION)

By Ramu Damodaran The writer is Chief, United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) hosted in the Department of Global Communications. This OpEd first appeared in the UNAI Weekly Newsletter – January 8. NEW ...

Created on 09 January 2021

44. Capitol Hill Insurrection Demonstrates What the US Does Abroad

(OPINION)

... real president. Gaido was strongly backed by President Trump and he got 50 other nations to recognize him as the legitimate president of Venezuela. When this did not succeed, in September 2019, a US-trained ...

Created on 09 January 2021

45. UN Chief Points to Fragility and Conflict as Major Obstacles to Sustainable Development Goals

(Poverty)

... a flagship initiative of the African Union. The United Nations also remains committed to supporting the African Union’s ambitious Agenda 2063. "In this context," he said, "we have decided to establish ...

Created on 08 January 2021

46. The AU Peace Process to Solve the Conflict in Tigray Alleged to Have Been Undermined

(Horn of Africa)

... food has been provided to the camps Shemelba and Hitsats, the home to 50,000 Eritrean refugees. These have not received food since October last year. The International Situation The United Nations ...

Created on 08 January 2021

47. Is China Seeking to Remake the World in Its Own Image?

(OPINION)

... unquestionably sovereign nations. China’s territorial claims are naturally controversial internationally but are modest compared to those sought by other powers—not least the U.S. itself, which early in ...

Created on 08 January 2021

48. The Nuclear Weapon States Urged to Advance Disarmament

(Nuclear Weapons)

... disarmament". Linde highlighted Sweden's "support for UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees] and the services that it provides for Palestinian refugees". Jordan Foreign ...

Created on 06 January 2021

49. Ending Our Suicidal War Against Nature

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by John Scales Avery* COPENHAGEN (IDN) – "Our planet is broken," the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has warned. Humanity is waging what he describes as a "suicidal" ...

Created on 06 January 2021

50. Ocean Threatened by Loss of Coral Reefs

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Vijay Prashad * NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (IDN) – With a recent report titled “Projections of Future Coral Bleaching Conditions,” published by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) ...

Created on 05 January 2021

51. UN Concerned Over the Situation of Refugees from Tigray

(Horn of Africa)

...  The UNHCR has stated that it needs 156 million US$ to meet immediate needs of refugees in Ethiopia, but only US$ 40 million has been pledged.  The United Nations says that access to Tigray has improved ...

Created on 05 January 2021

52. Clean Energy Set to Grow in 2021

(Affordable Clean Energy)

... emissions. We know people and nations need reliable sources of energy to power hospitals and light schools, and to safely cook, heat or cool their homes. We know we need to switch to sustainable energy. ...

Created on 03 January 2021

53. India Has an Ambitious Agenda as UN Security Council Member

(South Asia)

By Devinder Kumar NEW DELHI (IDN) – With the start of the New Year, India joins the 15-member United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a non-permanent member for the eighth time. Along with Norway, ...

Created on 02 January 2021

54. United Nations

(Tags)

United Nations

Created on 27 December 2015