The global hunger crisis is here
May 22,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Seta Tutundjian DUBAI — Global food prices are soaring. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Food Price Index, which covers a basket of […]
Uyghurs in focus as UN human rights chief visits China
Michelle Bachelet will become the first United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit China since 2005 during a six-day official mission that starts on May 23.This content was published […]
Can Switzerland help make the UN more democratic?
Series Switzerland at the Security Council, Episode 1: The United Nations is facing a democracy deficit. As a prospective member of the powerful Security Council, Switzerland is keen to play […]
Shireen Abu Aqla: Palestinians to refer journalist’s killing to ICC
Source: BBC The Palestinian president says he will immediately refer the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqla to the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a speech at a […]
What history tells us about sanctions
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted unprecedented sanctions. The question of whether they will have an effect on the course of the war is still open. History shows they have […]
Sir David Attenborough named Champion of the Earth by UN
Epigraph: The sun and the moon run their courses according to a fixed reckoning.And the stemless plants and the trees humbly submit to His will.And the heaven He has raised […]
Denmark in talks with Rwanda on transfer of asylum-seekers
April 20, 2022 Africa Reuters Danish Minister for Immigration and Integration Mattias Tesfaye attends a meeting at the EU Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), in […]
What we need for long-term peace and prosperity
Apr 20,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Margaret Kuhlow WASHINGTON, DC — Russia’s war in Ukraine is a humanitarian catastrophe that violates the United Nations Charter and international humanitarian law, and has exacerbated socioeconomic and environmental crises around the world. It is also the latest manifestation of a global system that […]
New leaders take office as hope glimmers for war-torn Yemen
By AFP – Apr 19,2022 – JORDAN TIMES Fighters loyal to Yemen’s Houthi rebels visit the grave of slain Houthi political leader Saleh Al Sammad at Al Sabeen Square in the capital Sanaa, on April 8 (AFP photo) ADEN — Yemen’s new leaders took a ceremonial oath of office under tight security on […]
Is UN right about its ‘three-dimensional crisis’ warning?
BY KEREM ALKIN APR 19, 2022 – dailyslabah.com Illustration by Shutterstock. There is a ‘perfect storm’ and ‘three-dimensional crisis’ in the global economy and trade, the U.N. warned – and […]
UN, rights groups alarmed over British refugee deal with Rwanda
MIGRATION Issued on: 15/04/2022 – 16:31 Text by:David Coffey with RFI 3 min The UNHCR and human rights groups have voiced their opposition to a deal signed bewteen London and Kigali […]
Chief ICC prosecutor Karim Khan says Ukraine is ‘crime scene’ after visit to Bucha
By Daniel Keane The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has branded Ukraine a “crime scene” as he visited the town of Bucha, where hundreds of civilians are believed to have been slaughtered […]
Yemeni truce ‘broadly holding’: UN envoy
UN special envoy Hans Grundberg gives a press conference at Sanaa’s international airport before his departure from the Yemeni capital, on April 13, 2022. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/n5uvf Updated 14 […]
Does the Human Rights Council ever criticise the West?
Some developing countries feel they are unfairly targeted at the United Nations Human Rights Council. As the Council meets from Monday for its latest session in Geneva, we look at […]
Russia’s suspension from UN Human Rights Council raises big questions
International Geneva On April 7 the United Nations General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council over “gross and systematic human rights abuses” in Ukraine. SWI […]
UN wakes up to climate reality but future remains bleak
RANVIR S. NAYAR April 12, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/nzybw It is unusual to see the secretary-general of the UN lash out at global leaders. Thus, it was a surprise, albeit […]
The emergence of the spectre of debt
Apr 12,2022 – JORDAN TIMES Adli Kandah The World Bank has been warning for several years of the risk of debt explosion in a large number of developing and emerging economies. Economic indicators indicates that loans since 2010 have been growing at an annual rate of 7 per cent, a […]
Statement by Prince Rahim Aga Khan at the virtual Afghanistan Conference 2022
SPEECH DELIVERED BY Prince Rahim Aga Khan LOCATION Afghanistan (31 March 2022) RELATED INFORMATION Press Release Video: Statement by Prince Rahim Aga Khan at the virtual Afghanistan Conference 2022 RELATED LINKS […]
Ukraine crisis underscores need for equitable multilateralism
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG April 06, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/gjxue During the UN Security Council debate on Ukraine on Tuesday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky exhorted the council’s members to act, […]
False mantra
Apr 06,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen When dealing with the devastation wreaked by Russia on Ukraine during the ongoing war, Western military analysts point to the Russian air […]