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Credit: UNICEF

As UN ‘Reviews’ Presence in Afghanistan, Afghans Face More Hunger and Poverty 

Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service May 15, 2023 Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service

The number of people below the poverty line in Afghanistan has increased from 19 million in 2020 to 34 million today, reports Peoples Dispatch/Globetrotter News Service.

Credit: freewesternsahara.org

Ahead of UN Session, Sahrawis Recollect Decades of Betrayal That Enabled Moroccan Colonization

Pavan Kulkarni October 17, 2022 Pavan Kulkarni

The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) became “hostage to the Moroccan authorities,” unable even “to report on the human rights situation in the territory,” said Kamal Fadel, Western Sahara’s representative to Australia and the Pacific. Pavan Kulkarni reports for Peoples Dispatch.

Haitians Looked to China & Russia to End UN Mandate, Renewed for 1 More Year

Julie Varughese July 18, 2022 Julie Varughese

Despite China delaying the vote to hold closed-door negotations, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously agreed Friday to renew the UN's mandate in Haiti. Since 2004, as many as 13,000 troops from around the world have served as part of the UN's peacekeeping mission. For many Haitians, the mandate is a foreign occupation, reports TF editor Julie Varughese.

Permanent Representative of Cuba to the UN Ambassador Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta / credit: Twitter/CubaONU

Cuba Sounds Alarm Over UN Suspension Clause

Kawsachun News May 2, 2022 Kawsachun News

Several countries have taken to the General Assembly to warn against the suspension mechanism, which was used to oust Russia from the Human Rights Council on April 7, when a resolution was adopted in the General Assembly despite only being supported by a minority of United Nations member states, reports Kawsachun News.

Several thousand people marched in Philadelphia on May 15 against the state-sanctioned violence, settler-colonialism and apartheid occurring in Sheikh Jarrah and all of Occupied Palestine / credit: Joe Piette

Israel’s Hasbara in Sheikh Jarrah: On Gilad Erdan’s ‘Terrorist’ Rock and Faulty Logic

Ramzy Baroud January 31, 2022 Ramzy Baroud

Israel is no longer the party shaping events in Palestine and controlling the discourse around these events. Palestinians, and a growing international movement of supporters, are proactively shaping global perceptions of the realities on the ground, writes Ramzy Baroud.

Women in the Rhino Refugee Camp in Urua, Uganda. Developing countries rely developed countries to help them adapt and mitigate climate-change effects / credit: Ninno JackJr on Unsplash

Ahead of COP26, African Countries Reject EU Trying to Back Out of Climate Finance Talks

Rishika Pardikar October 30, 2021 Rishika Pardikar

With its climate pact and a climate law, the European Union is often viewed as progressive when it comes to dealing with the climate crisis. But positions that both EU countries and the EU bloc have taken in the run-up to the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26), the largest annual climate-change conference, paint a different picture. 

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