Activating ‘citizen mode’ to support democracy from the ground up — Global Issues

Activating ‘citizen mode’ to support democracy from the ground up — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

People around the world should be able to play a more significant role in decision and policy-making processes that impact them and their communities in order to uphold democracy; that’s according to participants in a discussion at the UN focusing on strengthening democratic governance. In recent years, the UN has…

Activating ‘citizen mode’ to support democracy from the ground up — Global Issues

UN concerned over ongoing Israeli military operation — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

In a statement from his spokesperson on Monday, Mr. Guterres affirmed that all military operations must be conducted with full respect for international humanitarian law. The incursion follows another operation in the camp on 19 June, which left four Palestinians killed and 91 others injured. Rising death toll The UN’s…

Activating ‘citizen mode’ to support democracy from the ground up — Global Issues

Cooperation key to weathering climate crisis, growing inequality, new tech challenge: Guterres — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

António Guterres was addressing the Council of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the world’s largest regional security body in terms of landmass and population which currently includes China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and new member Iran. The UN has had a cooperation agreement with the Asia-focused SCO…

Building bridges between Afghanistan and the world because ‘isolation is not an option’ — Global Issues

Building bridges between Afghanistan and the world because ‘isolation is not an option’ — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

Since then, as international funding has stalled amid skepticism about the Taliban’s return, the UN has been acting as the world’s “eyes and ears” in Afghanistan. After shifting mainly to humanitarian work, UN agencies and partners are finding ways to help the long-suffering population meet basic needs and preserve hard-won…

What is China’s Volt Typhoon? And How Can It Be Stopped?

What is China’s Volt Typhoon? And How Can It Be Stopped?

ByNews Polite

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT – A stealthy Chinese-sponsored hacking group that blends into normal home office networks and has been pursuing efforts to disrupt critical infrastructure between the United States and Asia does not require a hugely sophisticated effort to thwart its malicious activity, a top Microsoft official said.    “If you…

Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing — Global Issues

Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

While cooking on one side of her wooden tin-roofed house, Mercedes Marcahuachi describes her long day’s work to meet the needs of her household and of the soup kitchen where she serves 150 daily rations at the low price of 80 cents of a dollar, in one of the settlements…

A Disease of the Poor Begs For Rich Funding — Global Issues

A Disease of the Poor Begs For Rich Funding — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

A public awareness banner about tuberculosis on a fence in the Hope Fountain area, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS by Busani Bafana (bulawayo) Monday, July 03, 2023 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, Jul 03 (IPS) – The United Nations General Assembly is convening a high-level meeting on Tuberculosis (TB) to get a…

International Maritime Organization meets to discuss shipping emission curbs

International Maritime Organization meets to discuss shipping emission curbs

ByNews Polite

Comment on this storyComment LONDON — In a clubby mid-rise on the River Thames, its lobby filled with models of container ships and oil tankers, a rather obscure United Nations group is gathering this week to make a momentous decision that will influence whether the world can meet its promise…