News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 152
How AI Can Help Both Tax Collectors and Taxpayers
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Feb 26 (IPS) - New technologies have the potential to improve the relationship between governments and citizens. Tax portals, customs IT systems and online services have simplified interactions with public authorities, reduced bureaucratic hurdles, and increased transparency. Now, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is emerging as the next transformative force.
Human Rights Council: Gaza ceasefire must hold, Türk insists
- UN News
UN human rights chief Volker Türk issued a strong appeal on Wednesday for the fragile ceasefire in Gaza to hold, amid delays to talks between Hamas and Israel on extending the truce into the second phase.
Greatest threat to UN Peacekeeping is divisions between nations, says UN Peace Operations Chief
- UN News
Peacekeeping efforts by the United Nations are being challenged by growing disunity between Member States, the UN head of Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said in an interview with UN News, during the Conference for Women Peacekeepers in New Delhi.
Sudan war: Any peace deal must respect national sovereignty, UN envoy says
- UN News
As the war in Sudan approaches a second year, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the country has emphasized the need to re-double and coordinate efforts towards a peace agreement that respects national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity – and ending the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
Conflict has turned parts of Sudan ‘into a hellscape,’ Security Council hears
- UN News
A senior UN aid official has called on the Security Council to ensure better protection for civilians in Sudan together with unhindered humanitarian access, as the brutal war between rival militaries approaches a second year.
West Bank security situation remains alarming, warn UN aid agencies
- UN News
Weeks of deadly Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank have turned Palestinian communities into “battlefields” and left 40,000 people homeless, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday.
DAWN Calls on ICC to Investigate U.S. Officials for War Crimes in Gaza
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (IPS) - On February 24, the human rights organization Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, among other U.S. government officials, for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes that deliberately infringed on human rights in the Gaza Strip. This poses significant implications for the future of U.S. foreign policy and the role of impunity in world conflicts.
Outlook for 2025: Strengthening the Foundations of Children’s Futures
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (IPS) - In 2025, the world is facing a new and intensifying era of crisis for children. Climate change, economic instability, and conflict are hitting harder and more often, intersecting in ways that make the challenges of addressing them even more severe.
America First Deepens World Stagnation
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 25 (IPS) - Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) appeal captured US mass discontent against globalisation. In recent decades, variations of America First have reflected growing ethnonationalism in the world’s presumptive hegemon.
‘We’re afraid to return home’: Uprooted again, Congolese civilians face hunger and more insecurity
- UN News
Around 700,000 people were forced to leave Goma, one of the biggest cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) when it fell in January to rebels, known as M23. With the conflict spreading, many of them are on the move again but a return home is no guarantee of safety.
Powered by
