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RICH NATIONS FAIL TO HELP DEVELOPING WORLD FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
Clean energy investments in China, sub-Saharan African and other emerging markets fell 27 percent in 2016, to 111.4 billion, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in a study Monday... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | CHINA TREATS ITS FOREIGN AID LIKE A STATE SECRET. NEW RESEARCH AIMS TO REVEAL IT.
China treats its foreign assistance budget like a state secret, refusing to work with international bodies that try to coordinate and quantify foreign development funding... READ MORE›
DESPITE PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS, OFFICIALS SAY THE U.S. IS COMMITTED TO HUMANITARIAN AID
In raw numbers, the United States spends more money on humanitarian aid than any other country... READ MORE›
BRICS BLOC CARRIES GREAT POLITICAL WEIGHT ON WORLD STAGE
BRICS bloc carries great political weight on world stage Egyptian President... READ MORE›
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FOREIGN AID CUTS TO CONTRACEPTIVES IN TRUMP'S BUDGET HURT MILLIONS OF WOMEN
Melinda Gates Foreign aid cuts to contraceptives in Trump's budget hurt millions of women... READ MORE›
DROUGHT AND WAR HEIGHTEN THREAT OF NOT JUST 1 FAMINE, BUT 4
We underestimated the role of water and its contribution to mortality in the last famine, said Ann Thomas, a water, sanitation and hygiene specialist for Unicef... READ MORE›
AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY
MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›
AT UN POPE ISSUES SWEEPING CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN TROOPS 'FIGHTING ALONGSIDE ASSAD'S ARMY AGAINST SYRIAN REBELS'
An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE›
EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES
In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›
HOUSE OF LORDS FEARED CHEAP CHAMPAGNE AND VETOED MERGING SERVICES WITH COMMONS
Negotiators here in Peru are working this week on a climate change accord, with the aim of producing one that will be signed by world leaders next year in Paris... READ MORE›
READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH
Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›
SYRIA'S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: THREE WAYS TRUMP COULD HELP
Policy experts at Amnesty International USA, the International Rescue Committee and Care agreed that the travel bans blocked an important route to safety for Syrians... READ MORE›
GLOBAL POVERTY DROPS SHARPLY WITH CHINA MAKING BIG STRIDES UN REPORT SAYS
In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE›
UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS FAILING SYRIA, BAN KI-MOON ADMITS
We need some solidarity unity of purpose particularly among the permanent members of the security council he said in an interview... READ MORE›
PRESIDENT XI JINPING OF CHINA PLEDGES 2 BILLION TO FIGHT POVERTY
President Xi Jinping told the United Nations on Saturday that China would pledge 2 billion as an initial investment for development assistance to the poorest countries... READ MORE›
PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
U.N. SAYS SOME OF ITS PEACEKEEPERS WERE PAYING 13-YEAR-OLDS FOR SEX
As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE›
REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE PROMPTS WESTERN ENGAGEMENT IN SYRIA
To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE›
FOREIGN AID BUDGET TO INCREASE BY ?1 BILLION
The new EU accounting rules, which are being phased in to all government departments, have not yet been applied to foreign aid spending... READ MORE›
UN ADOPTS AMBITIOUS GLOBAL GOALS AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS
The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE›
70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE
70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS
In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›
OBAMA CALLS XI JINPING IN FINAL PUSH FOR A DEAL
Paris climate talks obama calls xi jinping in final push for a deal... READ MORE›
UN OFFICIAL RESIGNS AMID ACCUSATIONS OF SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS
For years, the issue of how to stanch sexual abuse in its ranks has bedeviled the United Nations... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED BY WAR IN 2015
The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE›
MICROSOFT'S BILL GATES TO START MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR FUND FOR CLEAN ENERGY
World's richest man is expected to announce creation of biggest ever clean energy fund at the opening of the Paris climate summit... READ MORE›
PARIS CLIMATE TALKS: BIGGEST POLLUTERS BACK TOUGHER WARMING TARGET
India said the 1.5C target raised immediate issues of fairness because it would put greater limits on capacity of developing countries to grow their economies... READ MORE›
FOREIGN AID ADVOCATES AND FISCAL HAWKS ALL LIKE TRUMP'S NOMINEE TO HEAD USAID
A large proportion of those are expected to come from USAID, the lead agency for U.S. economic assistance... READ MORE›
LEADERS MOVE TO CONVERT PARIS CLIMATE PLEDGES INTO ACTION
The Paris Agreement's provisions will not kick in until 2020... READ MORE›
A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT
We could have added environmental human rights to that legacy last weekend but we failed... READ MORE›
UN OFFICIAL IN PEACEKEEPER SEX ABUSE CASE RESIGNS
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a panel to review how the United Nations system as a whole handles allegations of sexual abuse against peacekeepers... READ MORE›
CANADA'S LIBERALS WILL HELP FILL GLOBAL GAP FROM TRUMP'S BAN
Abortion funding Canada's Liberals will help fill global gap from Trump's ban... READ MORE›