GENEVA (AA) – The UK and World Health Organization have launched a new health and climate change platform to help countries realize pledges made at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). The Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate Change and Health (ATACH) held its first meeting on June 27 in its quest to achieve [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – In response to the latest announcement by the G7 nations regarding the launch of a $600 billion global infrastructure initiative, China has said that the G7 nations should bring “real money and projects that actually benefit the people.” “What the international community wants to see is real money and projects that actual...
The use of torture is prohibited by the United Nations convention that also opposes other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment. Yet, many countries still employ methods of torture, including beatings, waterboarding, rape, sleep deprivation and solitary confinement. To increase global awareness of the problem, the U.N. designat...
Elmau Castle, Germany – (AFP) The G7 group of rich democracies on Sunday announced an attempt to compete with China’s formidable Belt and Road Initiative by raising some $600 billion for global infrastructure programmes in poor countries. The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, unveiled with fanfare by US Presiden...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye, NATO, Sweden and Finland will hold a quadruple leaders’ summit in Madrid this week as part of a pivotal NATO summit. Turkish officials have held two meetings with their Swedish and Finnish counterparts so far to discuss the two countries’ NATO membership applications. Türkiye’s presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin ...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has criticized a series of decisions by an EU summit on the Aegean and Mediterranean. The decisions, adopted at the end of a two-day leaders’ summit in Brussels, are “prejudiced, lack vision, and are disconnected from reality”, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Citing several Greek ...
GENEVA (AA) – Countries need to provide the necessary material and legal conditions to enable health personnel to assess, report and document torture and cruel or inhumane treatment, human rights experts from the UN’s three anti-torture mechanisms have said. Experts issued their statement for the International Day in Support of Vic...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday warned of an “unprecedented global hunger crisis,” saying next year could be worse. “The war in Ukraine has compounded problems that have been brewing for years: climate disruption, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the deeply unequal recovery,” Guterres told in...
ANKARA (AA) – Western countries repeated accusations Friday that Russia is deliberately creating the current global food crisis. “It is Russia’s war against Ukraine, not Western sanctions on Russia, that will push another 40 or 50 million more people to hunger,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a press conference wi...
GENEVA (AA) – Media freedom and the safety of journalists have dangerously declined around the world with grave negative effects on human rights, democracy and global development, a UN report said Friday. In a report presented to the Council, the report examined opportunities, challenges and threats to media in the digital age. It focuse...