U.N. proposes pact to fight mass extinction
U.N. officials unveiled a sweeping plan to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction, proposing a global wildlife treaty on the scale of the Paris climate accord.
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U.N. officials unveiled a sweeping plan to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction, proposing a global wildlife treaty on the scale of the Paris climate accord.
Half the world uses the internet including 1.15 billion children who can benefit from it only if they can safely navigate it, an international commission said.
The summit is held once every three years to examine protections for wild animals and plants traded internationally.
The aim is to establish better networks of support worldwide for advocates and raise the pressure for perpetrators of violence and intimidation to be held accountable.
The activist, mechanical engineer and ex-parliamentarian is set to replace UNAIDS' embattled leader Michel Sidibé.
The scandal surfaced in the aid work that Oxfam Great Britain did for Haitians displaced by the January 2010 earthquake.
The U.N. health agency said RTS,S is the first and only vaccine shown to significantly reduce malaria in children.
A panel found Israeli soldiers used live ammunition against thousands of unarmed protesters, killing 189 Palestinians.
U.N. Environment's global assessments are a touchstone among scientists, policy experts and decision makers.
The U.N. reported losing 21 staff who worked for its agencies; other international organizations reported losing 25 staff.
Aside from the money and time, the image of a jet-setting executive director in charge of an agency that sets environmental and climate agendas made for poor optics.
A routine examination by the U.N. Human Rights Council looked at Chinese crackdowns on Uyghurs and Tibetans.
With demands growing for the U.N. chief to appoint an investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's murder, a review by Arete News found just eight previous instances of such an order.
New ethnic clashes in the south of the country and violence along a border region displaced more than 1 million people.
U.S. President Donald Trump's belligerent national security adviser John Bolton harshly condemned the International Criminal Court, which is hated by conservatives.
Russians and Americans have a complicated history of election meddling abroad but they are not equivalent, international organizations and democracy proponents say.