Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 514
People for Peace: Breaking prison barriers in Central African Republic
- UN News
Women are often “placed second or even ignored” when they are employed as corrections officers in prisons and other detention centres, according to Téné Maimouna Zoungrana, an officer from Burkina Faso serving with the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).
5 ways UN Peacekeeping partnerships drive peace and development
- UN News
Every day, United Nations peacekeepers work to protect millions of vulnerable people in increasingly dangerous places in the world’s most fragile political contexts.
Weathering a 'Perfect Storm' of Cascading Crises
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, May 27 (IPS) - Climate change, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine – these crises threaten to derail development for 1.7 billion of the world’s most vulnerable people. The international community must take swift, coordinated action now to put the SDGs back on track.
Gender Sensitivity Key to Achieving Climate Justice
- Inter Press Service
Toronto, May 27 (IPS) - While the climate crisis affects virtually every aspect of life, its impacts are not felt equally.
Food Banks are Early Warning Systems for Emerging Food Crises, but also a Key Solution
- Inter Press Service
CHICAGO, USA, May 27 (IPS) - For months, the specter of a global hunger crisis has been looming. The war in Ukraine is a compounding factor, blocking key value chains for food and fertilizer just as the world reckons with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global hunger.
Resolve the conflict, don’t just manage it, top envoy tells Israelis, Palestinians
- UN News
Israelis and Palestinians must push beyond the paradigm of managing the conflict and move towards resolving it, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council on Thursday, as he expressed particular concern that dynamics in the occupied West Bank could spiral out of control “at any time”.
‘Protracted political impasse’ further polarizing Libya
- UN News
Despite UN efforts, political, economic and security deadlock continues in Libya, the UN political affairs chief told the Security Council on Thursday, adding that human rights there have also deteriorated.
Peacekeepers’ Day ceremony honours service and sacrifice of UN blue helmets
- UN News
The United Nations paid tribute to the men and women serving under its flag in some of the most dangerous places in the world during a ceremony in New York on Thursday to mark the International Day of UN Peacekeepers.
5 ways UN Peacekeeping partnerships drive peace and development
- UN News
Every day, United Nations peacekeepers work to protect millions of vulnerable people in increasingly dangerous places in the world’s most fragile political contexts.
UN Syria Commission: ‘unconscionable to consider closing last border crossing’
- UN News
The UN Syria Commission of Inquiry said on Thursday that not extending current cross-border aid to Syria along the remaining route, would be a “failure of the highest order”. The warning to the Security Council comes as humanitarian needs throughout Syria are at their highest, since the start of the devastating 11-year war.
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