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This Week @UN: IOM’s controversial hire; Gaza aid profiteer wants a UN meet-up; Trump’s Human Rights Council problem. Plus: Gaza’s deepening death spiral; US drops UNESCO; water & peace in W. Africa; Pacific Islanders’ victory; malaria-free Timor-Leste; France’s breakthrough on …
This Week @UN: Merge the UN refugee and migration agencies?; Israeli “accountability” in Gaza; Sebastião Salgado tribute. Plus: Gaza flotilla; High Seas Treaty; Pope Leo XIV; Israel pounds Iran; 2-state solution conference delayed; Mike Waltz nomination. Follow us on Blue …
Jorge Millán’s home in the small town of El Maitén in Argentina’s Patagonia was raided in February this year. “It was total madness,” said Millán, who belongs to the Indigenous Mapuche community and works at the local radio station, La …
The United States withdrew its military personnel from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement revoking all visas held by citizens of the small, landlocked African country. “The United States …
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The major news from the desertification climate conference here was no decision on the major global matter of drought, following the lead of the earlier biodiversity and climate change COPs this fall, falling short on headline …
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A cascade of environmental summits in the final months of this year has made some people ask, are we drowning in climate talks? Here in Riyadh, where the United Nations Conference to Combat Desertification is tackling …
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Five years ago, students at Fiji’s University of the South Pacific engaged in a “learn-by-doing” exercise in an international environmental law course. They were challenged with conjuring the most progressive environmental policies they could imagine. A core group of students …
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Argentina’s UN right turn; global South’s COP29 $$ demands; the Trump (& Musk) effect on Africa. Plus: Gaza; Lebanon; Tor Wennesland; ICC arrest warrants; humanitarian workers’ death toll. Seeing the light: We’re now on BlueSky, …
BAKU, Azerbaijan — At COP, the annual climate conference held this year in Baku, it’s anyone’s guess if important progress will be made on the major issue of climate financing. The total amount of money and its sources remain contentious …
A farewell party for Argentina’s ambassador to the United Nations last week may have been bittersweet for Ricardo Lagorio, the country’s envoy since March 2024. He was saying goodbye to his colleagues and fellow diplomats as he returns to South …
Welcome to This Week @UN: Africa in the Security Council; Azerbaijan’s ‘COP of Peace’; fixing Haiti’s food and water crises; Elise Stefanik. Plus: Trump; COP29; UNRWA; Guterres on genocide in Gaza; Sudan. We have revived our BlueSky account, so please …
