The United Nations has achieved a significant feat by completing the safe transfer of oil from the FSO Safer supertanker located off Yemen's Red Sea coast. This successful operation has effectively thwarted the immediate threat of a potential massive...
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Ever so rarely, the human species can reach accord and agreement on some topic seemingly contentious and divergent. Such occasions tend to be rarer than hen’s teeth, but the UN High Seas...
“Nuclear weapons are nonsense. Three-quarters of a century later, we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945”, he urged during the solemn event at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park attended by...
By Robert Hunziker
It’s entirely possible that doomsayers of the world, though widely ridiculed, could be on target about the prospects for global societal collapse. But, of course, when? According to a recent Noam Chomsky interview, it’s an ongoing grind...
UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited sites of suspected war crimes in Ukraine on Thursday, where he condemned the “evil” acts committed against civilians and urged criminal accountability.
The UN chief’s visit to the Kyiv suburbs of Borodianka,...
Food and Agricultural Organization
Concerning humanitarian crisis and the importance of agriculture
The war in Ukraine has pushed 15.7 million people to be in need of humanitarian assistance and forced massive population displacement. Over 5.1 million people have fled the...
49th session of the Human Rights CouncilUrgent debate on the situation of human rights in Ukraine stemming from the Russian aggressionStatement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
3 March 2022
Distinguished President,Excellencies,Colleagues and Friends,
One week ago, the Russian...
Announcing that worldwide commerce amounted to around $28.5 trillion last year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) explained that this represented an increase of almost 13 per cent compared to the pre-pandemic level of 2019.
“The positive trend...
Unknown and also unacknowledged by Colombo and the nation’s strategic and diplomatic community, there is a lesson for Sri Lanka in the recent UN General Assembly (UNGA) vote on the situation in Myanmar.
The UNGA voted 191-1 with 35 abstentions,...
The long-term and growing body of evidence on migration and mobility shows that migration is in large part related to the broader global economic, social, political and technological transformations that are affecting a wide range of high-priority policy issues....
