Values of UN Charter under threat like never before, warns Guterres — Global Issues

Values of UN Charter under threat like never before, warns Guterres — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

In response to the assault on the principles behind the United Nations, António Guterres said that the international community needed to raise the alarm, and “reaffirm those values.” ‘Elusive and fragile’ Above all, “we need peace” he told the audience gathered for the prestigious award championing multilateralism in Europe, at…

Sudan violence threatens fragile cross-border progress with Juba — Global Issues

Sudan violence threatens fragile cross-border progress with Juba — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

“The outbreak of violence in the Sudan may deeply impact the chance for political progress on Abyei and border issues,” Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, told the Council. Security in Abyei, a disputed oil-rich border region…

Over 200 executed since January; Türk calls for end to death penalty — Global Issues

Over 200 executed since January; Türk calls for end to death penalty — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

More than 10 people are put to death each week in Iran, High Commissioner Türk said, making the country “one of the world’s highest executors”, with at least 209 people executed since the beginning of the year according to sources quoted by the UN rights office (OHCHR), in a press…

A New Saudi Arabia? Changes on the Screen and in Reality — Global Issues

A New Saudi Arabia? Changes on the Screen and in Reality — Global Issues

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Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm, sweden) Monday, May 08, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 08 (IPS) – The World changes, though prejudices and misconceptions remain. In 1996, political scientist Samuel Huntington published The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, in which he predicted that people’s cultural…

Statement on the G7 Hiroshima Summit, the Ukraine Crisis and No First Use of Nuclear Weapons — Global Issues

Statement on the G7 Hiroshima Summit, the Ukraine Crisis and No First Use of Nuclear Weapons — Global Issues

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Opinion by Daisaku Ikeda (tokyo, japan) Monday, May 08, 2023 Inter Press Service TOKYO, Japan, May 08 (IPS) – The Ukraine crisis, which in addition to bringing devastation to the people of that country has had severe impacts on a global scale—even giving rise to the specter of nuclear weapons use—has…

New Mosquito Species Could Derail Fight Against Malaria — Global Issues

New Mosquito Species Could Derail Fight Against Malaria — Global Issues

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Stagnant water in one of Nairobi’s residential areas. Credit: Wilson Odhiambo/IPS by Wilson Odhiambo (nairobi) Monday, May 08, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, May 08 (IPS) – ‘Urban’ Kenya has been alerted because new mosquito species, Anopheles stephensi, threatens to derail decades of effort made in the fight against malaria. According…

Livestock Producers Seek to Integrate Biogas and Animal Protein Market in Brazil — Global Issues

Livestock Producers Seek to Integrate Biogas and Animal Protein Market in Brazil — Global Issues

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The Toledo Bioenergy Center, in southern Brazil, is under construction, but its biodigesters are already operating with manure and the carcasses of disease-free dead animals from 16 pig farms. The goal is to generate one megawatt of power and for pig farmers to participate in the production of biogas without…