The UN has a solid track record when it comes to environmental treaties. To be sure, governments are still far short of meeting the Paris Agreement goals, and the Conference of Parties (COP) proc...
https://undispatch.com/can-a-new-un-treaty-stop-plastic-pollution-worldwide/
The single largest humanitarian crisis in the world turns one year old today. Since a full-scale civil war erupted in Sudan exactly one year ago, some 8 million people have been displaced. This i...
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, better known as UNRWA, was established in 1949 to support Palestinians displaced during the first Arab-Israeli war. Today, it provides services and hum...
By Aishwarya Machani Never before have more people had more opportunities for political expression. 4.2 billion people worldwide will have a chance to hit the polls this year, making it the bigge...
https://undispatch.com/why-we-need-a-global-citizens-assembly/
The Security Council finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution was crafted by the so-called “E-10.” These are the ten non-veto-wielding elected me...
https://undispatch.com/will-the-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-make-a-difference/
The Commission on the Status of Women concludes this week at the United Nations. The CSW, as it is known, is one of the major annual events at UN headquarters. In terms of sheer size and number ...
https://undispatch.com/what-happened-at-the-un-commission-on-the-status-of-women-this-year/
The security and humanitarian situation in Haiti has deteriorated sharply over the last several days. The country had been ensnared in an enduring crisis following the 2021 assassination of Presi...
https://undispatch.com/why-haiti-has-taken-a-turn-for-the-even-worse/
Western countries have seized hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian assets following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago. Since then, the question of what to do with thos...
https://undispatch.com/why-confiscated-russian-assets-must-pay-for-ukraines-reconstruction/
Alexander Ward ia national security reporter for POLITICO and author of the book “The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump.” We discuss the implications...
In this Global Dispatches podcast episode, Clemence Landers of the Center for Global Development discusses the upcoming replenishments of several global development funds and the potential challe...
https://undispatch.com/replenishment-global-health-foreign-aid-global-development/