The race to develop a vaccine to help stem the Ebola outbreak is intensifying as it becomes the world’s second-largest on record and the fastest-spreading. Aurélia Nguyen, deputy CEO of Cepi, the non-profit leading vaccine efforts, appears nonetheless op… https://t.co/uj01Jl04MT
As AI promises to accelerate global development, the race for dominance risks leaving most countries as bystanders with no choice but to accept a future they had no say in. AI expert Martin Wahlisch argues Geneva must change that – at next year’s global… https://t.co/s1kUpvATGL
Twelve years after the Yazidi genocide perpetrated by Isis, survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad condemns the lack of justice for the victims. To date, at least 2,000 women and children remain missing.
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Amid the ongoing fallout from Fifa’s governance crisis, international agencies are not saying much about how this reflects on cooperation deals signed in recent years as the football organisation sought international legitimacy, including some that have… https://t.co/ocP7v5SSx3
Informal voting to select the next UN leader kicked off Thursday in the Security Council, with former Costa Rican vice-president Rebeca Grynspan emerging as the early favourite. It remains to be seen who the five veto-yielding powers will back, in a proc… https://t.co/jDEP7jM3Wh
UN refugee chief Barham Salih downplayed a crisis within the UN refugee agency following media reports that Washington was considering ditching the agency and stripping it of its key financial support.
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Despite a Supreme Court ruling, Israel has spent more than two years refusing prison visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross – and continues to manoeuvre politically to keep it that way.
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Adopted in the turbulent years after World War II to address the massive displacement in Europe, the UN Refugee Convention marks its 75-year history as governments twist the principles of protection to serve political purposes. For refugees like Peter Ki… https://t.co/EIL1X4zQvG
This week, the UN Security Council will begin straw-polling for the next secretary general. Sources with inside knowledge of the process say that despite measures adopted to make it more transparent, opacity will prevail.
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The head of the UN’s academic arm, Tshilidzi Marwala, says lawmakers do not need to become AI engineers to oversee regulations. But he warns that without some foundational knowledge, they will struggle to keep up.
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