UN aims to boost aid to frontline areas of Ukraine; Black Sea grain exports near 18 million tonnes — Global Issues

UN aims to boost aid to frontline areas of Ukraine; Black Sea grain exports near 18 million tonnes — Global Issues

The UN humanitarian coordination office, OCHA, said in a press release that a seven-truck convoy had reached Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region – just five kilometres from the Russian border. “This community has been heavily impacted by months of hostilities and the 4,500 people who remain there depend on humanitarian…

What a World Rife with Volatility Means for the Energy Market

What a World Rife with Volatility Means for the Energy Market

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — The new year is bringing new concerns for the energy market and what that might mean for broader national security moving forward. Last year saw the world’s first global energy crisis.  This year, there is unprecedented transformation in the global distribution infrastructure as the Biden Administration seems…

Pakistans 10 Billion Dollar Flood Funding Question — Global Issues

Pakistans 10 Billion Dollar Flood Funding Question — Global Issues

A father and son remove their belonging from their flooded home in Taluka, Shujabad, District Mirpurkhas. Credit: RDF by Zofeen Ebrahim (karachi) Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Inter Press Service KARACHI, Jan 18 (IPS) – Experts question Pakistan’s 10bn USD funding for flood rehabilitation, asking if it wouldn’t have been better to…

The UN Keeps Shrinking – Amid Pandemic Lockdowns & Flexible Working Hours — Global Issues

The UN Keeps Shrinking – Amid Pandemic Lockdowns & Flexible Working Hours — Global Issues

The UN’s empty corridors when the world body went into a lockdown mode because of the Covid-19 pandemic beginning March 2020. Credit: United Nations by Thalif Deen (united nations) Tuesday, January 17, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 (IPS) – A new variant of Covid-19, spreading across New York…

NATOs Opportunity in the Indo-Pacific — Global Issues

Recommit to Libya ceasefire, urges senior UN representative — Global Issues

On Monday, Abdoulaye Bathily, who is also the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, urged the government to allocate the appropriate resources, step up political efforts to end the stalemate, and reestablish legitimacy to Libyan institutions through elections.  ‘Spirit of unity’ Since the 2011 overthrow of former ruler Muammar Gadaffi, oil-rich Libya has…

UN calls for immediate release of 50 women and girls abducted in Burkina Faso — Global Issues

UN calls for immediate release of 50 women and girls abducted in Burkina Faso — Global Issues

Unidentified armed groups reportedly kidnapped the women and girls on Thursday and Friday near the town of Arbinda, located in the north.  UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the incident.  ‘Spare no efforts’  “The Secretary-General calls for the immediate and unconditional release of the abducted women and girls and…

General Assembly President hosts children from around the world, on MLK Day — Global Issues

General Assembly President hosts children from around the world, on MLK Day — Global Issues

Swarming the office of President Csaba Kőrösi, the children – who ranged in age from toddler to high-school teen – pulled on the UN and Hungarian flags that flank a UN seal in the office and ran around to look at the skyline outside of the balcony. Meanwhile, parents tried…

NATOs Opportunity in the Indo-Pacific — Global Issues

Killings of journalists up 50 per cent in 2022: UNESCO — Global Issues

In the recently released 2021-2022 freedom of expression report, UNESCO noted the deaths of 86 journalists last year, amounting to one every four days, up from 55 killings in 2021. The findings highlight the grave risks and vulnerabilities that journalists continue to face in the course of their work, the…