By Shabnam Palesa Mohamed | Take Back Power | September 23, 2023 “Regardless, acting as the UN’s general assembly, its 78th president Dennis Francis tried to irregularly and unlawfully approve a ‘historic’ but currently non-binding political declaration […]
IAN WILLIAMS Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2023, pp. 22-23 United Nations Report By Ian Williams TAKEN AS A WHOLE, the U.N. system is a mélange of principles and sordid pragmatism which can be inspiring, […]
Immigrant rights advocates demonstrate in Portland, England on July 18, 2023. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) “This bill sets a worrying precedent for dismantling asylum-related obligations that other countries, including in Europe, may be tempted to […]
People wait to receive food donations in Kandahar, Afghanistan on April 27, 2022. (Photo: Javed Tanveer/AFP via Getty Images) The United Nations Development Program is calling for a pause in debt repayments to allow economies […]
A palm oil farm in Belem, Brazil. (Photo: iStock/via Getty Images) Climate finance must be redirected away from greenwashing and towards real solutions like a just transition, helping frontline communities, conservation, protection of land and […]
UN Report Accuses Israel of ‘Silencing of Civil Society’ to Repress Palestinians Palestinians take part in a protest against the Israeli decision to declare six Palestinian human rights groups as “terror organisations”, in Gaza City […]
Ukrainian security forces carry an elderly resident and a dog to a boat during an evacuation from a flooded area in Kherson on June 7, 2023, following damages sustained at Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam. […]
Spying on your enemies is one thing, but when it’s directed at supposed friends who can blame them for being annoyed? Antonio Guterres © Gehad Hamdy / picture alliance via Getty Images Among the classified documents allegedly […]
Moscow’s upcoming presidency of the UNSC is a “bad joke,” Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has insisted FILE PHOTO: Diplomats participate in the UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting at the UN headquarters in New York City. © AFP […]
The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Washington to pay compensation to Iranian individuals and firms The delivery of the International Court of Justice judgment on the merits of the case concerning Certain […]