The Guardian - Donald Trump’s maiden address to the UN general assembly was unlike any ever delivered in the chamber by a US president. There are precedents for such fulminations, but not from US leaders. In tone, the ...
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Republic of Korea, at General Assembly, calls for more active UN role in solving nuclear crisis
21 September 2017 – The United Nations must play a more active role in resolving the crisis posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear and missile programmes, both by promoting dialogue and t ...
IUNW: Human Rights Council 36th session must ban bully NGOs
Independent United Nations Watch called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to make sure that the Council is not used for political bulling and lobbying. IUNW wrote to Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli, President ...
IUNW: HRC must not be the venue of political “Bullying”
Independent United Nations Watch called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to make sure that the Council is not used for political bulling and lobbying. IUNW call on member states to make the 35th se ...
As 71st General Assembly opens, new President pledges to ‘turn the wheels’ on implementing 17 Global Goals
13 September 2016 – The United Nations General Assembly today opened its 71st session, with an emphasis on ensuring that implementation of the new global development goals, adopted by its 193 Member States last year, is ...
Why the U.N. Can’t Solve the World’s Problems
THERE has been no dearth of feeling around the horseshoe table of the Security Council in recent days. The American ambassador, Samantha Power, choked up as she spoke of infants who perished in the Malaysia Airlines ...
UN agencies ‘broke and failing’ in face of ever-growing refugee crisis
The UN’s humanitarian agencies are on the verge of bankruptcy and unable to meet the basic needs of millions of people because of the size of the refugee crisis in the Middle East, Africa and Europe, senior figures ...
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