OECD
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 12, 2019
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, riven internally by disputes over its mission and future direction, may be in trouble. Faced with questions about its basic competence from board members and outside investigators, accusations have been gathering…
- Categories: UN Agencies
- Thalia Kehoe Rowden
- • October 30, 2018
What if we lived in a world where countries competed to see which ones treated their citizens best — in a race to the top, Olympian style? Now there’s a way to get started. A project called the Human…
- Categories: Human Rights
- Helmut Volger
- • November 17, 2016
BERLIN — Since 1946, the United Nations Depository Library Program — consisting now of more than 360 depository libraries in more than 130 countries — has provided scholars, journalists, politicians, diplomats and the broader public with access to what…
- Categories: General Assembly, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 12, 2015
A relatively upbeat joint report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of developed countries, and the independent Climate Policy Initiative shows that the international campaign to finance projects to halt or to adapt to damaging…
- Categories: Climate Change
- Rhona Scullion
- • August 26, 2015
Extracting minerals from the earth is a messy, albeit lucrative business, and the disputes that plague the industry tend to be equally challenging. As the center of international trading of mining company stocks, London is regarded by some watchdog…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Latin America
- Tendai Musakwa
- • June 29, 2015
SHANGHAI — Coal use by some of the world’s most advanced societies — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, known as the Group of 7 — has been increasing deaths and disease globally, Oxfam International,…
- Categories: Climate Change, Health and Population
- Alice Speri
- • September 25, 2013
With 827 days to go until the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals — the United Nations’ flagship agenda for global development — the buzzword at the General Assembly’s annual opening debate in New York this week was “acceleration.”…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Health and Population
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • February 26, 2013
Gold is now one of the most problematic conflict minerals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and United Nations Security Council sanctions on the illegal mining of natural resources, including gold, have done little to prevent smugglers from…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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