By Global Issues The General Assembly wrapped up the main part of its 79th session on Tuesday, approving a $3.72 billion budget for the United Nations in 2025 and adopting a new programme to support landlocked developing countries. Read the full story, “General Assembly approves $3.72 billion UN budget for 2025”, on globalissues.org → Source: […]
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By Global Issues NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 24 (IPS) – This year has been a landmark one for climate and environment policy. Starting with the UN’s COP16 biodiversity talks in October, followed by the COP29 climate talks in November, and closing with the desertification COP16 in December, few years have offered such critical moments back-to-back. Read […]
By Global Issues LONDON / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec 24 (IPS) – It’s been a tumultuous year, and a tough one for struggles for human rights. Civil society’s work to seek social justice and hold the powerful to account has been tested at every turn. Civil society has kept holding the line, resisting power grabs and […]