"The UN is being turned into a public-private partnership": An interview with Harris Gleckman
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system.
"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
JENNY CLEGG looks ahead at a year where an increasingly multipolar world will challenge US dominance
"The founding proclamation of the UN: “We the peoples … determine to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” also reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, and committed to establish conditions of respect for international treaties and laws, and to promote social progress and better standards of life.
It is now time to reassert the role of the UN at the centre of world politics by reclaiming the “We the people” declaration from below in a grass-roots movement for international co-operation on climate change alongside the fundamental principles of peace and social justice.
1 Sept 2010. By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - A group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, will propose at the U.N. this month that a tax be introduced on international currency transactions to raise funds for development aid, ministers sai
By Vijay Prashad, reprinted from Newsclick, January 22, 2013 Prashad: " For the French Left to hide behind the UN, when it is exactly what the French military assault is doing, is to ridicule both the UN Charter and the entire tradition of anti-colonialism and human rights."
Trump's bellicose statements about North Korea and the recent false missile alert in Hawaii have raised global alarm over nuclear war. Now, in an unprecedented step, a draft of the new U.S. Nuclear Posture calls for authorizing nuclear weapons use even in response to a non-military attack
Forum scientifique et citoyen sur la Radioprotection De Tchernobyl à Fukushima 11/12/13 MAI 2012, Genève Organisé par Independent WHO (Pour l’Indépendance de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé) Site du collectif Independent WHO
26.03.2012 Teija Laakso "YK:n kansainvälisen asekauppasopimuksen (Arms Trade Treaty) tekstistä on tarkoitus sopia heinäkuussa New Yorkissa. Kuusi vuotta tekeillä olleen sopimuksen taustalla on kasvava huoli kansainvälisen asekaupan ja aseiden aiheuttamista ihmisoikeusloukkauksista. "Vuosittain ainakin puoli miljoonaa ihmistä kuolee aseiden aiheuttamaan väkivaltaan. Haavoittuneita ja ihmisoikeusloukkauksia kokeneita on moninkertainen määrä", viime viikolla Suomessa vieraillut Wood muistuttaa. Aseviennin vuotuinen arvo on noin 50 miljardia dollaria, mutta harvalle maalle se on oleellinen osa taloutta. Siitä huolimatta asekauppaa ei vielä säädellä kattavasti kansainvälisesti."
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Austria on Tuesday called for banning nuclear weapons because of their catastrophic humanitarian effects, an initiative it said now has the backing of 159 countries.
Under tre dagar den här veckan samlas ledande Nobelpristagare, forskare, politiker och företagsledare i Stockholm för ett Nobelpristagarsymposium. Symposiet, 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, ska ange prioriteringarna för en utvecklin