News
Athletes are among the most influential people on the planet and together with their managers, fans and others involved in organized sport, must contribute to global efforts to combat climate…
Europe
The current war in Ukraine, following the Russian invasion, has sparked all sorts of questions about the United Nations, particularly the role of the Security Council, the General Assembly and…
Europe
In an impassioned address to the Security Council that evoked the ashen destruction wrought during the Second World War, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday described in stark detail what he said…
Environment
Reacting to the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN Secretary-General insisted that unless governments everywhere reassess their energy policies, the world will be uninhabitable.
Europe
Senior UN officials have echoed the Secretary-General’s call for an independent investigation into the killing of scores of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
News
© UNODC Chiang Rai (Thailand), 4 April 2022 – The so-called Golden Triangle area, bordering Myanmar, Thailand and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, has historically been a centre of Southeast…
Human Rights
400th anniversary of the first ship that brought the first Africans to the British colony of Virginia. We mark that as the real beginning slave trade in America in the…
Europe
The recent adoption by Russia of a punitive “fake war news” law is an alarming move by the Government to gag and blindfold the media and the entire population
Europe
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday called for an independent investigation into the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, a suburb of the capital, Kyiv.
Europe
Nataliia Vladimirova fled her home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the first day of the Russian invasion, on 24 February, with her four-year-old daughter Oleksandra and mother-in-law. They are amongst the…
