The United Nations is convening a three-day summit of world leaders from 24 to 26 June 2009 at its New York Headquarters... was mandated at the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development, held in December 2008 in Doha. the General As
On Obama's initiative, it has been decided that leaders of the United Nations Security Council member countries will meet on Sept. 24 to discuss nuclear issues.
"We are hopeful that your country would support the Arab draft resolution," says the June 29 letter to Bildt. "Unfortunately," Sweden was among the EU nations voting to block action on the document last year, Moussa wrote. In Stockholm, Swedish foreign mi
On Oct 24, 2008, United Nations Day, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave a landmark speech entitled Contagious doctrine of deterrence has made non-proliferation more difficult, in which he called on governments to fulfil their nuclear disarmament obliga
UNGA 2009: What is happening? A basic power shift away from the West. "There will not be any deep multilateral Kyoto style agreement on climate. The whole approach is wrong. Evils are not abolished by consensus among evildoers; slavery was not abolishe
"L’idée au cœur de ce manifeste est la suivante : il est temps de contester et dépasser les modes de pensée dominants fondés sur des visions réductionnistes et mécanistiques du monde à l’origine de la destruction des ressources précieuses de la planète et
Frontal21-Interview "Verloren hat die Vorsorge" von Karsten Deventer. -- Tom Jefferson ist Allgemeinmediziner und arbeitet im internationalen Gesundheitsnetzwerks Cochrane Collaboration. Zusammen mit zwei Kollegen aus Japan und den USA wertet der in Rom a
Mick Moore, 22 January 2010 : "It is no longer utopian to talk of substantial policy change within a few years. Where and how will it come about? There are clear, strong links between prohibition and the growing likelihood of defeat for the Western milita
On November 15, at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt), OpenNet Initiative (ONI) partners were set to hold a reception for the as-yet-unreleased volume Access Controlled, in a room which ONI had been given permission to use for
by Thalif Deen / IPS. "Monday [3.5.2010] an overwhelming majority of U.N. member states - 118 out of 192 - wanted the defiant Jewish state to come clean with its nuclear weapons programme and sign the NPT, which is aimed at halting the spread of these dev
PelicanWeb's Journal of Sustainable Development. -- Do they believe that the MDG will be realized by Big Oil, the Military-Industrial Complex and the Nuclear Lobby together?