NEW YORK, Nov 8 2024 (IPS) - On the day following the US election, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres issued a brief ...

The Paris Agreement on climate change is a decade old this month. While there has been progress – with new net zero pledges ...

When the United Nations imposes sanctions or penalizes a member state – be it the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council – the resolutions are “non-binding” and often remain unimplemented. But ...

The Arab region is among the most water-scarce regions, as nearly 392 million people live in countries facing water scarcity ...

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted in 1995 during the Fourth World Conference on Women, remains a ...

More durable than bronze, higher than Pharaoh’s pyramids is the monument I have made, a shape that angry wind or hungry rain cannot demolish, nor the innumerable ranks of the years that march in ...

To make peace with nature, we must first make peace with ourselves because wars are won at the most devastating impacts of ...

Climate finance will be at the epicenter of COP29 negotiations; will a lack of scientific research hurt the Global South's ...

Violence in the Middle East has escalated dramatically since the Hamas terrorist attack in October 2023 and the fallout that ...

Russia is pursuing, during these contemporary times, a new form of economic architecture, non-hegemonic policies and simultaneously portraying its first-class military power in the world. Russia's ...

At the 2021 UN Climate Summit, Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley called for more and better use of special drawing rights ...

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are experiencing the most severe impacts of climate change. When leaders of those islands met in Antigua and Barbuda in May, they let the world know that ...