USA presented for the first time a draft resolution to the Security Council of the UN to call for an “immediate ceasefire” in Loopsaid Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who this Thursday will try to promote a truce between Israel and Hamas from Egypt. “We have submitted a resolution to the Security Council calling for […]
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Rafael Grossi: “The challenge we have is to decarbonize, not denuclearize”
Presented by some as a shortcut to the apocalypse and embraced by others as a solution to obtain cheap energy with hardly any CO2, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) remember that at the COP28 climate conference it was agreed “speed up” the deployment of the nuclear energy. “The challenge we have […]
UN climate agency issues “red alert” on global warming
The climate agency UN issued a “Red alert” on global warming, citing unprecedented increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and the melting of glaciers and sea ice, and warning that global efforts to reverse the trend have been insufficient. In its report issued Tuesday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) compounded fears […]
UN: Israel commits war crime against Gaza population by driving them into famine
The UN This Tuesday he accused Israel loud and clear of committing a war crime against the population of Loop by depriving it of food to extremes that have led at least 210,000 people to famine in the north of the enclave, and have put more than 1.1 million Gazans at imminent risk of suffering […]
The children of the Islamic State, abandoned to their fate in a field in Syria
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Ali is 12 years old and has survived things that no child should see. She has spent half her life in what amounts to a prison camp for jihadist families in an arid corner of northeastern Syria. He knows that he should not dream of freedom. Instead, he fantasizes about having a soccer ball. “Can […]
UN warns of strong growth of electronic waste in the world
A report from the Institute of Studies of the UN based in Bonn (west of Germany) warns of strong growth in the generation of electronic trash around the world with serious implications for the global south. According to the report, 53.6 billion tons of electronic waste were produced in 2019 – 7.3 kilograms per capita […]
“Humanity cannot survive an Oppenheimer sequel,” warns UN chief
”Humanity cannot survive an Oppenheimer sequel“, warned the UN Secretary General on Monday, who once again warned about the risk of a “nuclear war” using as a reference the film that “brought to life the harsh reality of the nuclear apocalypse”. “We meet at a time when geopolitical tensions and mistrust have raised the risk […]
The post-covid world is recovering, but it forgets the poorest, warns the UNDP
Humanity recovered its level of development prior to the pandemicbut the record expected for 2023 hides a growing gap between rich and poor countries in a world as fragile as a “house of cards”warns the UN. In 2020 and 2021, for the first time since its creation more than 30 years ago, the Human Development […]
“Poverty globally has a woman’s face,” remembers António Guterres
The secretary general of the UN, Antonio Guterresrecalled this Monday that “the poverty “They generally have the face of a woman.”while among those in charge of combating it there is an overwhelming male majority: 8 out of 10 finance ministers and more than 9 out of 10 central bank governors are men. Guterres thus drew […]
European Union announces that it evacuated its staff from Haiti
The European Union announced this Monday that it evacuated its staff from Haitiwhere the capital, Port-au-Prince, is going through a serious security crisis following a spiral of violence unleashed by armed gangs that confront the police. “We have removed EU staff from Haiti,” Peter Stano, spokesman for the diplomatic division of the European Commission, the […]