
Rebeca Grynspan: ‘The UN must sit at the most important negotiating tables in the world’
The Costa Rican economist and politician is launching her campaign for the United Nations secretary-general position

The Costa Rican economist and politician is launching her campaign for the United Nations secretary-general position

In a letter to the president of the Security Council, the Nicolás Maduro government warns of ‘an impending aggression’

The French president praised the purpose and history of the organization that the US leader attacked: ‘Its harshest critics are those who want to exert domination’

‘Today, humanity once again faces the choice between peace and war,’ Xi Jinping warned during an event commemorating Japan’s surrender in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the end of World War II

The president says his country is facing the greatest threat Latin America has seen in 100 years: ‘We are witnessing how the Miami mafia has seized political power in the White House and the State Department’

Spain’s King Felipe VI opened a gathering attended by over 70 world leaders, with the notable absence of the United States, at a time of ‘obvious lack of funding’

UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns of growing impunity, and the head of the Atomic Energy Agency denounces the expansion of nuclear arsenals

Israel’s demand that the mission be relocated and its army’s attacks are jeopardizing the effectiveness of the UNIFIL operation, one of the oldest in the United Nations

UNIFIL commanders deny that Hezbollah uses its soldiers as human shields, as Israel claims. The blue helmets mission has neither the capacity nor the will to engage in combat despite coming under attack

Military sources warn that the withdrawal of UNIFIL troops would remove the only witnesses to the Israeli invasion

The continent needs green energy to ensure access to electricity for its population, making it a highly coveted trading partner in the eyes of Beijing, which is subject to trade barriers by the US and EU

Three reporters have been arrested in three days, accused of discrediting the Russian army and association with the organization of deceased dissident Alexei Navalny

Numerous works reflect the similarities of the current geopolitical situation with the Cold War era in parallel to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Guterres spoke on the Egyptian side of the border not far from the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where Israel plans to launch a ground assault despite widespread warnings of a potential catastrophe

The resolution aims to close the digital divide between rich developed countries and poorer developing countries and make sure they are all at the table in discussions on AI
The killing of over 100 people receiving aid in the Strip is the latest example of the effects of the organization’s paralysis. Countries in the Global South have criticized the West’s double standards in relation to the conflict in Ukraine

The Venezuelan president held a meeting with his Brazilian counterpart at the CELAC summit, in which he invited Brazil to participate as an observer in the upcoming elections

The International Court of Justice said that because of the ‘perilous situation’ in Rafah, Israel must respect earlier measures imposed last month at a preliminary stage in a landmark genocide case

U.S. Vice President Harris offered a broad defense of the Biden administration’s approach to global challenges at the Munich Security Conference

The world body fires nine employees of UNRWA, its main aid group in Gaza, after the latter were accused of participating in the Hamas attack on Oct 7. Spain says it will maintain funding while the US and a score of other countries are cutting it off

The landmark verdict marks a monumental step in a four-decade struggle for Indigenous land rights and a long, bitter legal battle which has at times spilled into the streets of northern Guatemala

The initiative, which is non-binding, has received more support than the one adopted in October, with 33 more countries voting in favor

The United Nations Secretary General on Wednesday urged the Security Council to force a cessation of hostilities to provide urgent humanitarian aid

‘This is more proof of the Secretary-General’s moral distortion and his bias against Israel,’ the country’s ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan said
Sultan al-Jaber’s profile does not favor the strategic role that the president should perform at the climate summit

The Israeli government’s continual references to historic anti-Jewish hatred makes it harder to condemn the deaths of thousands of civilians and children in Gaza in response to the Hamas October 7 attack

‘We are living through climate collapse in real time,’ said U.N. Secretary-General António Gutérres in a message released to coincide with the presentation of the WMO’s interim report on the state of the climate ahead of COP28