News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 73
Bridging the Digital Divide: How AI Risks Marginalizing Indigenous Peoples
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 12 (IPS) - Although the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) yields numerous opportunities for progress—such as improved efficiency, enhanced decision-making, and innovative tools for climate reform—it also poses new risks for Indigenous peoples. With AI rapidly transforming the world, it is imperative that there are ethical and equitable frameworks that prioritize inclusivity and work to narrow the gaps in the digital divide.
Are Negotiators Turning the Plastics Treaty into a Death Treaty?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, August 12 (IPS) - The future plastics treaty is being sold as potentially an environmental breakthrough. But in its current form during this week’s negotiations, it contains a dangerous flaw that must be addressed before the final text is agreed — or it could undercut the world’s most widely ratified health treaty, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), and hand the tobacco industry the tools to expand its market under the banner of environmental action.
UN Staffers, Threatened with Lay-Offs, are Offered Early Retirement
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 12 (IPS) - The United Nations, facing a liquidity crisis, has been threatening to lay-off about 20 percent of its estimated 37,000 employees world-wide: a proposed move that has triggered widespread protests from staff unions both in New York and Geneva.
Inequality Worsens Planetary Heating
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, August 12 (IPS) - The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. It is also worsening disparities, especially between the rich and others, both nationally and internationally.
Sudan: UN ‘deeply alarmed’ by major attack on besieged El Fasher
- UN News
The UN has expressed deep alarm over a large-scale assault by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia on El Fasher, the government-held capital of Sudan’s North Darfur State, and the nearby Abu Shouk displacement camp, which has been under siege since April 2024.
Yemen: ‘Regional turmoil continues to erode prospects for peace,’ Security Council hears
- UN News
UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg, briefing the Security Council on Tuesday, voiced concern over the latest clashes between Government forces and Houthi rebel militia.
Gaza: UNESCO condemns ‘unacceptable’ killing of journalists
- UN News
The UN organization which champions culture and education, UNESCO, has strongly condemned the targeted killing of six journalists in Palestine by an Israeli drone on 10 August.
First Person: Echoes of war as aid arrives in Syria’s historical city
- UN News
The transformation over two decades of the once thriving Syrian city of Sweida from tourist destination to a landscape marked by violence and loss has been detailed by the chief of a UN migration mission who recently visited the area.
Gaza health system ‘catastrophic’ as hospitals overwhelmed and medicines running out, WHO warns
- UN News
Public health conditions in Gaza are “catastrophic”, with hospitals operating far beyond capacity. Some life-saving medicines are totally out of stock, while deaths from malnutrition and disease are on the rise, the UN health agency warned on Tuesday.
UN80: From “Less-with-Less” to “More-with-Less”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, August 11 (IPS) - With the ink hardly dry on the Pact for the Future outcome for modernizing global governance from last September’s Summit of the Future, the United Nations’ long-standing financial crisis has morphed into an extreme liquidity crisis.
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