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Boosting Resilience in the Caribbean Countries
The upcoming UN Conference on Small Island Developing States in Samoa will provide an important opportunity to increase international cooperation and knowledge sharing between and within regions.
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Global Problems Call for Global Solutions
Pope Francis recommends the United Nations determine how best to cope with the spreading threat of the Islamic State.
“Life Is Awful in Gaza”: Two Residents’ Accounts
A teenage blogger and the father of a toddler describe what it's like to be civilians under attack in Gaza.
“No Safe Place”: After Deadly Attack on Gaza School, UN Warns 150,000 Seeking Shelter Are at Risk
At least 16 people were killed and more than 200 injured Thursday when a school used as a United Nations shelter came under fire in Gaza.
Statement by Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The situation in the occupied Gaza Strip is critical for the civilians living there and requires urgent attention.
Thirsting for Democracy in Detroit: Activists Resist Water Service Shutoffs, Wall Street and Privatization
After a week of direct actions protesting privatization and water service shutoffs, the people of Detroit reject a Wall Street-dictated world, decry commodification of the commons and push back …
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Water Cut-Off in Detroit Violates Human Rights, Say Activists
A severe water crisis in financially bankrupt Detroit has prompted several NGOs to appeal for UN intervention.
Water Is a Human Right: Detroit Residents Seek UN Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands
Activists in Detroit have appealed to the United Nations over the cityu2019s move to shut off the water of thousands of residents.
Post-2015 Development Agenda – Will the Voices of the Hungry be Heard?
The Millennium Development Goals will expire in 2015 and be replaced with the Sustainable Development Goals, which are intended to strengthen the international communityu2019s engagement with eradicating poverty and …
UN Expert: Lethal Use of Drones Must Be Curbed
The UN's foremost expert on extrajudicial killing has called for international restrictions on the use of armed drones.