The UN Security Council on Tuesday called for the full, equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in Afghanistan, denouncing a ban by the Taliban-led administration on women attending universities or working for humanitarian […]
The United Nations will host a “no-nonsense” climate summit in 2023 to spur action from governments on the climate crisis, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says, as the goal of avoiding global warming of more […]
A “lack of political will” is hindering the United Nations biodiversity conference, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has warned, urging participating nations to set more ambitious goals to tackle the environmental crisis. Delegates from nearly […]
The global economy is besieged by soaring inflation and mounting debt, fuelled primarily by the climate emergency and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The need is urgent: the United Nations has identified 54 countries in […]
Global wages fell in 2022 for the first time since the global financial crisis due to soaring living costs, threatening to worsen inequality and drive social unrest, the United Nations labour agency has warned. Monthly […]
Countries have adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the COP27 climate summit that sets up a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters – but it does not boost efforts to tackle […]
There is widespread concern about the human tragedy in Ukraine. How could there not be? Yet, among us are people who are sufficiently heartless and opportunistic to celebrate the bloodshed as a victory for […]
Russian missile strikes have crippled almost half of Ukraine’s energy system, the government said on Friday, and authorities in the capital Kyiv warned that the city could face a “complete shutdown” of the power grid […]
When leaders think of investing, their minds often jump to publicly traded stocks or bonds. But that’s starting to change with the rapid growth of private markets or any asset, such as debt or real […]
In Egypt, at the 2022 UN climate convention, all eyes are on whether rich countries provide the money they have promised to poorer, less-developed nations to help them adapt to the devastation climate change has […]
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