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What is genocide?
Dec 15, 2019 20:52What constitutes 'genocide'? And what persons or groups can be considered victims of it? Recently Gambia has filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Myanmar with committing genocide against its Rohingya minority.
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High time for NATO’s end for the sake of global peace
Dec 13, 2019 14:15"NATO is the cause of the new arms race with Russia, including upgrading of nuclear arsenals. Therefore, the sooner it is disbanded the better for world peace and stability, since a relic of the cold war shouldn’t be reconfigured to prolong the US domination of Europe, or to pick up fights with Russia, China, and the Resistant Front of the Muslim World, or to launch suicidal space wars."
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Psychoactive drugs, bane of the modern world
Nov 22, 2019 17:47According to the latest report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (INODC), in 2009, a total of 166 “New Psychoactive Substances” (NPS) have been used in different world countries while in the years 2019 this number has reached 803, showing 703 percent increase during 10 year span. NPS are a range of drugs that have been designed to mimic established illicit drugs, such as cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy and LSD.
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S. Carolina prisoners appeal to the UN for relief from torturous conditions
Nov 07, 2019 09:17South Carolina’s prison system has reached a breaking point, and right now it is breaking the mind, bodies, and spirits of human beings.
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A UN treaty guarantees youth rights everywhere on earth—except the United States
Oct 22, 2019 20:13One notable children’s rights violation in the United States today is the separation of migrant children from their parents. Others include the practice of trying children as young as 10 years old as adults in criminal courts and locking up minors convicted of crimes in adult prisons – at times in solitary confinement. Also corporal punishment remains legal in public schools in 19 American states and no state has outlawed the practice for parents.
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What a U.N. report on war crimes in Yemen means for U.S.-Saudi weapon sales
Oct 09, 2019 17:12Without the least doubt, Washington is a comrade in the Riyadh regime’s state terrorism against the people of Yemen through supply of state-of-the-art military technology that over the past four-and-a-half years killed over a hundred thousand men, women, and children, in addition to plunging the country in famine and epidemics.
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Why UN doesn’t like US
Oct 04, 2019 08:19US President Donald Trump's ‘America First’ concept contradicts the values of the United Nations, denying the broad consensus of the international community to pursue common development through cooperation and to solve global problems through shared responsibility.
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U.N. report paints a harrowing portrait of the planet's future
Oct 02, 2019 11:06Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) experts found that the global sea level rose about 15 centimeters during the 20th century and has accelerated in recent decades because of ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, melting glaciers, and ocean thermal expansion.
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Africa’s industrial development: Turning challenges into opportunities
Sep 26, 2019 09:37Despite growth rates in Africa still not having reached the 7.0 percent that would be required to pull the continent’s populations out of poverty, optimism for Africa has not diminished.
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UNGA and politics of multilateralism
Sep 25, 2019 11:58United Nations' member states have a decision to make in order to keep the hope of multilateral diplomacy alive. They need to ask whether they are a part of the solution and whether they can bring solutions to the table that address all pressing issues and others they feel so acutely on the planet, such as the ability to do free trade and invest across borders in local currencies and without the fear of being coerced or sanctioned.