COP26 Delegates and Their Partial Carbon Footprint
The largest meeting room at the COP26 (October 31- November 12) venue in Glasgow holds 147. As there are 197 members, everyone cannot attend...
UNCTAD Report: Revisiting Old Issues in Managing Cross-Border Data Flows
Today, information space has become a field of confrontation involving major digital platforms, governments, societies and individual users. Stories featuring latest cyberattacks or state-sponsored...
UN Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997)
On May 21, 1997, the United Nations General Assembly issued Resolution 51/229, approving the International Convention on the Use of Watercourses for Non-Navigational Purposes....
20 Years After Palermo Convention: Towards the Universal Criminal Justice
Authors: Carlos López-Veraza Pérez and Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic
2020 marked the 20th anniversary of the Palermo Convention and its Protocols, the main instruments in...
Urban leaders, influencers, chart new path for world cities
Mayors of Mexico City, Bogotá, New Orleans, Freetown, Gaziantep and Barcelona joined other urban leaders, designers, activists and thinkers from around the world on Wednesday, to chart a new path for cities.
A launch event...
Glasgow Climate World Summit: There is no Planet B
In November, the world’s attention will be focused on the proceedings and outcomes of the United Nations COP26 International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
The COP26 Summit and How we as Individuals Can Help to Reduce Global Warming
Ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow (October 31 - November 12), the UN Environment Program has released a report described as a "wake-up"...
The Complex World Order
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world order changed profoundly in 1989. The Soviet Union was dissolved, and it became a “unipolar”...
Pakistan’s approach to fighting against COVID-19 may be utilized as guidelines
According to the latest Data by Worldometer on 30 October, there ae total number of Covid -19 cases reached up to 246,743,439, the total...
Traffickers abusing online technology
Human traffickers who trick people with fake job offers and promises and then exploit them for profit, are taking advantage of online technologies for every step of their criminal activities.
Research conducted by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime...