The Chile-led effort warned that Israel’s decision to ban U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres would “undermine the United Nations’ ability to carry out its mandate.” The U.S. was not among the more than 100 United Nations member states that signed a new letter of support for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres after Israel’s foreign minister declared him “persona non […]
“The UNSC is failing people living in conflict, with Russia and the United States particularly responsible for abusing their veto power,” said Oxfam. As the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance worldwide has skyrocketed by 150% over the last decade, five powerful countries on the United Nations Security Council have had hundreds of […]
“I must call out the flood of fossil fuel expansion we are seeing in some of the world’s wealthiest countries,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said. “Countries must phaseout fossil fuels—fast and fairly.” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday criticized the world’s wealthiest countries for expanding fossil fuel production, one day after an analysis in The Guardian showed […]