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By Thalif Deen
After years of negotiations, the United Nations has reached an agreement on a Global Ocean Treaty aimed at ensuring the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity which covers over two-thirds of the world’s high seas.
“You have pumped new life and hope to give the ocean a fighting chance”, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, following the adoption of...
The four-day-old military conflict in Sudan—between two factions of the country’s armed forces—is threatening to unleash a civil war reminiscent of two other nations in the Middle East: Yemen and Syria
The conflict in both countries has resulted in two of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent years resulting in thousands of civilian killings and widespread starvation...
By Thalif Deen
A new report on world hunger by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) is a setback to the United Nations’s highly-...
Acoalition of over 1,000 civil society organisations (CSOs) from 127 countries, under the umbrella of the Global People’s...
The alarm bells have been ringing right across Europe as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has not only triggered nuclear threats...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres told a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the devastating atomic bombing of Hiroshima...
UNITED NATIONS: The Maldives, one of the world’s low-lying, small island developing states (SIDS) - threatened with extinction...