UN predicts restrictions on women’s rights will worsen economic catastrophe — Global Issues

UN predicts restrictions on women’s rights will worsen economic catastrophe — Global Issues

The Afghanistan Socio-Economic Outlook 2023, released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), provides an overview of the fallout resulting from the takeover of Afghanistan by its present-day de facto rulers, the Taliban, in August 2021. Immediately after the Taliban assumed power, the Afghan economy collapsed, accelerating Afghanistan’s decade-long slide into…

UN rights chief calls for a return to talks, amid reports of 24-hour pause — Global Issues

UN rights chief calls for a return to talks, amid reports of 24-hour pause — Global Issues

“Sudan has already endured so much pain and suffering. The fighting is born out of power games and personal interests that only serve to alienate the democratic aspirations of the population,” said Mr. Türk, adding, “Do those responsible not understand that the civilian population now only craves a peaceful life?”…

Bathily calls on partners to support momentum — Global Issues

Bathily calls on partners to support momentum — Global Issues

“There has been a new dynamic in Libya,” Abdoulaye Bathily said, urging authorities to meet the people’s expectation that they will be able to choose new leaders via the ballot box, and deliver on all their commitments. “All international partners should support the current momentum and speak with one voice…

UN predicts restrictions on women’s rights will worsen economic catastrophe — Global Issues

UN advisory board charts fresh path to better global governance — Global Issues

Launched by the UN’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, A Breakthrough for People and Planet: Effective and Inclusive Global Governance for Today and the Future, outlines an ambitious plan to overhaul the global architecture. Co-chaired by former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and former Prime Minister of Sweden,…

UN predicts restrictions on women’s rights will worsen economic catastrophe — Global Issues

Food insecurity, malnutrition, set to reach 10-year high — Global Issues

For the first time in the Sahel, 45,000 people are at risk of experiencing catastrophic levels of hunger, or one step away from famine, they said. The majority, 42,000, are in Burkina Faso and Mali, where violent unrest in some areas has hampered the delivery of humanitarian aid. The combined…

UN predicts restrictions on women’s rights will worsen economic catastrophe — Global Issues

When US Spies Read Russian Lips in the Security Council Chamber — Global Issues

by Thalif Deen (united nations) Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Apr 18 (IPS) – The massive leak of a treasure trove of highly-classified US intelligence reports—described as “one of the most remarkable disclosures of American secrets in the last decade”-– has also revealed a more surprising angle…

Livelihoods of Almost Half the Worlds Population Depend on Agrifood Systems — Global Issues

Livelihoods of Almost Half the Worlds Population Depend on Agrifood Systems — Global Issues

The 1.23 billion people working in agrifood systems belong to households made up of an estimated 3.83 billion people. Credit: Kristin Palitza/IPS by Paul Virgo (rome) Monday, April 17, 2023 Inter Press Service ROME, Apr 17 (IPS) – New research by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revealed…

Myanmars Forgotten War Lurches Deeper into Horror — Global Issues

Myanmars Forgotten War Lurches Deeper into Horror — Global Issues

Faces of the dead. Myanmar’s non-profit Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has a museum in the Thai border town of Mae Sot documenting the identities of over 3,000 civilians killed by the military since it seized power in 2021, as well as those killed since the first post-independence coup in…

UN predicts restrictions on women’s rights will worsen economic catastrophe — Global Issues

5 things to know about the Financing for Development Forum — Global Issues

There are so many conflicts, humanitarian disasters, extreme weather events and economic upheavals taking place in the world, that a new word is being used to describe the current state of affairs: the “polycrisis”. The word appeared in 2022, a year that began with tentative hopes that the global economy…