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Key pointsUN chief urges binding international cooperation on AI governance, warning that life-and-death decisions must never be handed to machinesCalls for Security Council reform, highlighting the…
That’s according to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and child rights agency UNICEF that reviews progress on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in…
Just over a decade ago, the world was heading towards more than 4°C of warming over pre-industrial levels. Climate action since the Paris Agreement has lowered…
The UN-backed Independent International Scientific Panel on AI’s warning followed the hack of the online platform HuggingFace between May and July by “AI agents” during a…
The need is even greater amid growing threats to global stability and security from emerging infectious diseases as well as climate-related crises and conflicts. What happened?Over seven…
Neither chose their circumstances. Yet, one will likely live decades longer, earn far more and have a meaningful say in the decisions that shape their life.The…
Criminal networks now move money, goods and information across borders at lightning speed, exploiting everything from new technologies to global instability. Yet the same tools that…
Richard Gowan, Director of UN and Multilateral Diplomacy at the International Crisis Group in New York, has spent years studying the organization – its highs and…
The top Bangladeshi diplomat and sitting foreign minister has staked his one-year presidency on a single ambition: restoring trust. It’s a theme he returns to often, tracing…
UN peacekeepers have increasingly been sent into places where there is no peace to keep – under resourced, outgunned and exposed to violence they are not…