Climate change is high on the global policy agenda. Not only this is a priority area for the
UN and its Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
; political, business and religious leaders, including Pope Francis, have joined the plea to take action on slowing down global warming.
Despite recent terror attacks in Paris, leaders of more than 120 nations ...
While Brazil's “strategic allies” --Germany and France-- are now turning away Syrians and other refugees Brazil has already provided asylum to 2,900 people presumed to be Syrian nationals fleeing the bloody civil war. The United States, which open sources indicate is spending billions of dollars to provide asylum to refugees from many nations, including Syria, operates sophisticated screening operations to examine the backgrounds of asylum seekers. As seen by the refugee ...
On October 27, 2015, RIAC President Igor Ivanov and UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation between the two organizations.
The document lays out a plan for development of joint programs and events for reaching ...
Just in time for recapping the polarized choices presented by President Obama and President Putin at The United Nations General Assembly. In Foreign Policy there is a struggle between two concepts which every nation must face. There is the idealist perspective which promotes what is right under societal values and norms (which differ per culture), and there ...
The United States is unlikely to introduce new sanctions against Moscow after Monday’s meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama in New York, Russian MP and political scientist Vyacheslav Nikonov has said.
"The main ...
As EU leaders find themselves hard-pressed to implement a quota system to resettle refugees flooding to the Union’s borders, the search for long-term sustainable solutions to the crisis continues. On September 14
th
, British Prime Minister David Cameron
visited a camp
run by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in eastern Lebanon just a stone’s throw ...
Relations between Russia and the United States were already bad two years ago. Even before the problems in Ukraine began, Moscow had granted temporary asylum to former NSA intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and disagreements were deepening between the two countries.
U.S. President Barack ...
... shifted her focus to strategizing for her campaign to win a second term as president and “BRICSA” became a dead letter.
Lula leaps in
Last week, while Dilma and her group of Workers' Party insiders was negotiating the survival of her unraveling coalition, Lula was on an uncharacteristically long (one week) political junket to Argentina and Paraguay, ostensibly to promote bilateral trade and strengthen economic ties among Mercosul nations, another problematic issue.
In Buenos Aires,...
The United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, during which the post-2015 development agenda is to be adopted, will be held from 25 to 27 September 2015 as part of the General Assembly’s 70th anniversary session. The document "
Transforming ...
Moving from peacekeeping to peacebuilding
Moving from peacekeeping to peacebuilding
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