The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a landmark resolution on the promotion of “safe, secure and trustworthy” artificial intelligence (AI) systems that will also benefit sustainable development for all. |
Allan Carlson, Ph.D.: Speeches: The Howard Center
"A talk for the Charismatic Leaders' Fellowship, 12 Jan 2004, Jacksonville, FL"
Vad betyder ":::THC:::" som tydligen är talarens titel?
Reuters The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday [18.10.23] that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants to allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip.
Jeffrey Sachs: The nations of the world, operating under the UN Charter and defending the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, must move urgently to help save both Israel and Palestine.
Focus on the Global South , July 2023: we delve into our recent activities around the UN Food Systems Summit, where as part of People’s Autonomous Response to the UN Food Systems Summit, Shalmali Guttal participated in critical public discussions on "Multilateralism vs Multistakeholderism — The Case of Food" and "Multistakeholderism and the Corporate Capture of Food Governance.". We were also part of the press conference, "Calling for True Food Systems Change", and we share with you the press release and statements stemming from these engagements. As part of our regional work, we also share insights from Joseph Purugganan, who discussed advancing accountability and justice via a legally binding instrument for the Business and Human Rights Resource Center Roundtable Series on Binding Treaty.
Iain Davis and Whitney Webb
June 5, 2023The United Nations claims that the purpose of Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG16) is to promote peaceful and inclusive societies and to provide access to justice for all. Hiding behind the rhetoric is the real objective: to strengthen and consolidate the power and authority of the "global governance regime" and to exploit threats—both real and imagined—in order to advance regime hegemony.
Dissecting and digesting what's behind the controversy-ridden 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.
Powerful Northern governments and large scale corporations are behind the summit. The Summit was initiated just after the United Nations signed a strategic partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF), a platform of the 1000 leading corporations, and early documents indicated the WEF as a co-organizer of the summit.
Agnes Kalibata, the president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), was named as the Special Envoy for the Summit. This has been another source of controversy, because AGRA is an organization, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations (as well as many governments), that promotes a high-tech, high-cost approach to agriculture, heavily reliant on agrochemical inputs and fertilizers.
They have been at the forefront of predatory seed laws and policies that marginalize and disenfranchise peasant farmers on a massive scale. Despite USD$1 billion in funding, food insecurity has increased by 30% in the countries in which they operate.
june 7, 2022. A silent revolution is underway at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Corporations are being given increasing influence at the expense of states, small scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples and civil society.
Stockholm+50 äger rum den 2-3 juni 2022, i nära anslutning till FN:s årliga
Regeringen.se : I juni 2022 arrangerar FN högnivåmötet Stockholm+50 där Sverige står som värd, tillsammans med Kenya. Då är det femtio år sedan FN:s första...
Världsmiljödag den 5 juni och till femtioårsjubileet för Stockholmskonferensen. Mötet hålls på Stockholmsmässan i Älvsjö i Stockholm. Det är troligt att mötet innehåller en hel del digitala inslag och sändningar.
The nine nuclear-dependent nations and their supporters face a future in which they will be increasingly isolated.
Illustrating the complexity of differing positions on the treaty are the 43 nations under the UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD). More than one-third of the 43 countries have ratified the TPNW, but the bloc also includes four nuclear-armed states: China, North Korea, India and Pakistan.
Yuriy Kryvonos, director of UNRCPD, said nuclear-armed states often claim their arsenals serve as a deterrence tool. “Against whom [does] this deterrence tool exist? Against other nuclear-armed states.” The argument, he said, is “nonsense” because a nuclear war cannot be won; claiming protection from nuclear weapons is an illusion. Arguments that the TPNW undermines the NPT, Kryvonos insisted, do not hold water.
The General Assembly commemorates 26 September as the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. This Day provides an occasion for the world community to reaffirm its commitment to global nuclear disarmament as a priority.
Gunhild Stordalen blir en av fem temasjefer når FN avholder toppmøte om mat og bærekraft i 2021, skriver E24. Stordalens kommentar er at dette er litt surrealistisk. Det er en kommentar vi kan slutte oss til, om enn på en annen måte enn det hun ønsker å formidle.
Gunhild Stordalen og hennes EAT Foundation har fått stor mediadekning for sine ytterliggående forslag om hvordan verdens kosthold bør være.