When the 193-member General Assembly voted Wednesday to condemn the beleaguered government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, there was an increase in the number of sceptics who neither supported nor opposed the tottering regime in Damascus. The resolution, which is legally non-binding, was adopted by a vote of 107-12, compared with 133-12 last August. As…
Nações Unidas, 14/5/2013 (IPS) – Quando, no final de 1991, candidatou-se para o cargo de secretário-geral da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), o então chanceler egípcio Boutros Boutros-Ghali precisou competir com seu colega do Zimbábue, Be…
When Egypt’s onetime Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali was running for the post of U.N. secretary-general in late 1991, he had to contend with the candidature of Bernard Chidzero, then foreign minister of Zimbabwe. As the campaign began to intensify, Boutros-Ghali recounted a brief encounter with Chidzero, a longstanding friend, at a conference in Africa, a…
Israel, which has launched three air strikes inside Syria since January this year, has escaped scrutiny or condemnation by a Security Council which remains sharply divided. The continued air attacks have escalated tensions in the region and threatened a wider regional conflagration, according to reports from the Middle East. Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of the Arab…
When a Southeast Asian country was riddled with corruption in a bygone era, there were rumours that government officials routinely offered receipts every time they accepted a bribe. Last week, Hamid Karzai, the embattled president of Afghanistan, admitted that he was no better: providing receipts to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which secretly bribed…
Nações Unidas, 6/5/2013 (IPS) – O mundo continua se tornando digital e, sem pressa mas sem pausa, a Organização das Nações Unidas também.
Nações Unidas, 2/5/2013 (IPS) – O rosto da população migrante muda de forma drástica, já que as mulheres e as meninas representam cerca de metade dos 214 milhões de pessoas que são obrigadas a abandonar seus lugares de origem no mundo.
The face of migration is changing dramatically as women and girls now represent about half of the over 214 million migrants worldwide. And in some regions of the world, they outnumber their male counterparts, says Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). Addressing a weeklong meeting of the 46th session of…
Nações Unidas, 29/4/2013 (IPS) – O vice-secretário-geral da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), Jan Eliasson, surpreendeu a todos ao apresentar os seguintes números: dos sete bilhões de habitantes do planeta, seis bilhões têm telefone ce…
Speaking of the widespread sanitation crisis, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson was quick to produce staggering numbers: of the world’s seven billion people, about six billion have mobile phones but only about 4.5 billion have access to toilets. “And that leaves about 2.5 billion people, mostly in rural areas, without proper sanitation,” he points out….
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