Tag: United Nations
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The UN will vote on its first resolution on AI, aimed at ensuring its safety
The General Assembly is set to vote today [Macau time] on what would be the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence, aimed at ensuring the powerful ... -
Sex trade to slavery: a UN agency says criminals reap $236B a year in profits
Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported yesterday, with sexual exploitation ... -
Most Security Council members demand Taliban rescind decrees oppressing women and girls
More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members demanded yesterday [Macau time] that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women ... -
Knee-jerk reaction to Tel Aviv’s UNRWA charges shows some countries putting cart before horse
Israel’ s intention in alleging that 12 staff members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East were involved in ... -
UN forecast cites conflicts, sluggish trade, high interest and climate disasters
The United Nations issued a somber global economic forecast for 2024 last week, pointing to challenges from escalating conflicts, sluggish global trade, persistently high interest rates ... -
UN peacekeeping chief welcomes strong support for its far-flung operations despite `headwinds’
The United Nations peacekeeping chief says he was very satisfied with the strong support of many countries for its far-flung operations at a recent ministerial meeting, ... -
Delegates at UN climate talks in Dubai agree to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels
United Nations climate negotiators directed the world yesterday to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels in a move the talks chief called historic, despite critics’ worries ... -
Guterres uses rare power to warn of impending ‘humanitarian catastrophe’
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used a rarely exercised power to warn the Security Council yesterday [Macau time] of an impending “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and urged ... -
WHO asks China for more information about rise in illnesses and pneumonia clusters
The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of ... -
As mental health worsens among women, the UN is asked to declare ‘gender apartheid’
The U.N.’s most powerful body must support governments seeking to legally declare the intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid,” the ... -
Russian foreign minister lambastes the West but barely mentions Ukraine in UN speech
Russia’s top diplomat denounced the United States and the West on Saturday as self-interested defenders of a fading international power structure, but he didn’t discuss his ... -
Permanent observers, more Security Council and what else is going on at the UN
It’s Day 3 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York. Here are the highlights of ... -
Russia has turned food, energy and even children into weapons against Ukraine: Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said yesterday [Macau time] that Russia is “weaponizing” everything from food and energy to abducted children in its war against Ukraine — ... -
Atlantic nations commit to environmental, economic cooperation on sidelines of UN meeting
More than 30 Atlantic countries on four continents committed yesterday [Macau time] to bolster coordination on economic development, environmental protection, maritime issues and more, the White ... -
UN nuclear watchdog report seen says Iran slows its enrichment of near-weapons-grade uranium
Iran has slowed the pace at which it is enriching uranium to nearly weapons-grade levels, according to a report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog seen ... -
President Xi Jinping defends record to UN human rights chief
Chinese leader Xi Jinping defended China’s record to the top U.N. human rights official today (Wednesday), saying each nation should be allowed to find its own ... -
Putin gets no support from UN Security Council over Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin received no support from members of the U.N. Security Council at an emergency meeting today (Macau time) for his actions to bring ... -
United Nations: Xi calls for closer cooperation to address global challenges, issues
President Xi Jinping today (Monday) called on the world to increase cooperation, and work together to address the challenges and global problems facing humanity (full text ... -
United Nations | Guterres urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sharply criticized the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of COVID-19 vaccines yesterday [Macau time], saying 10 countries have administered 75 percent of ... -
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | World leaders meet with multiple crises on agenda
Facing a world in turmoil from multiple crises ranging from wars in the Mideast and Africa to the deadly scourge of Ebola and growing Islamic radicalism, ...
