World
Mediterranean: another weekend of Tragedy
A Syrian woman cries in relief as she embraces her three young children after a very rough crossing of the Aegean from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.
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Robust, coherent Europe response to Refugee crisis still urgently needed
Refugees wait to take a bus in Hungary right after crossing the border from Serbia in order to go to the pre-registration center. Thousands of refugees fleeing war and persecution, mostly in Syria, cross this border every day.
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UN officials condemn ‘virtual silence’ about escalating violence in Yemen
Faj Attan neighbourhood in Sana’a, Yemen, is regularly hit by airstrikes. Most of the population has left.
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Libyan parties reach consensus on main elements of political agreement – UN envoy
Special Representative and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Bernardino León.
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One war forced a family to flee Somali, and now another has forced them to return
A boat from Yemen docks at the port of Bossaso in the Puntland of Somalia, the main entry point for people arriving from Yemen.
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UNHCR urges full and swift implementation of European Commission proposals on refugee crisis
A father cradling his sick child waits in the rain to board a bus to a police pre-registration centre in Hungary.
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Following latest clashes, UN Mid-east envoy urges respect for Jerusalem’s holy sites
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov.
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OSCE-supported money laundering and terrorist financing national risk assessments completed in Skopje
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s (FYROM) authorities presented a completed money laundering and terrorist financing national risk assessment (NRA) at a workshop organized by the OSCE and the World Bank on 11 September in Skopje.
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AN URGENT APPEAL TO HEADS OF GOVERNMENT FOR ACTION : The UN General Assembly Is the World's Last Chance!
More and more people worldwide are profoundly worried over what only a few prominent people are saying publicly: NATO's confrontation with Russia and China is ongoing, and set to escalate, so that a global thermonuclear war is almost inevitable, unless we dramatically change our political course. The worldwide stock market collapse which followed "Black Monday" wiped out around $5 trillion, which then almost immediately flowed again into the pockets of one gambler or another, after the central banks set their electronic printing presses into motion in grand style.
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Obama Is to Blame for the Refugee Catastrophe: We Urgently Need A Coalition Against ISIS!
The worst refugee disaster since the end of World War II, in which millions of people are on the run from war, bestial terror gangs, hunger, and disease, is not the result of regional processes in the Middle East or Africa, but rather of a deliberate policy by Barack Obama, David Cameron, NATO,and the European Union (EU). If this obvious fact does not lead to a change in policy, the flow of desperate people trying to escape death by going to Europe will swell to many more millions. According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR), there were already 60 million people, worldwide, in flight by the end of 2014, before the recent explosion.
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Human Rights
Fostering a More Humane World: The 28th Eurasian Economic Summi
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020