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WTO Conference Ends In Division And Stalemate – Does The Global Trade Body Have A Viable Future?
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 6:40 pm | The Conversation
WTO conference ends in division and stalemate – does the global trade body have a viable future? More >>
Linking The Andaman Sea & Gulf Of Thailand
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 2:48 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Bangkok hopes Beijing will help build a $2.8 billion, east-west highway and railway "Land Bridge" across Thailand, linking the Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand as a short-cut for oil and other international cargo currently ... More >>
How To Start An LLC Business In Pennsylvania
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 11:55 am | Hugh Grant
The origin of Limited Liability Corporations (LLCs) in the United States can be traced back to the late 20th century, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of business structures within the country. Before LLCs, businesses primarily operated ... More >>
To Save Israel: The US Is Destroying The International System It Once Constructed
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 10:02 am | Ramzy Baroud
In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonized nations that have won the legitimacy war have always won their freedom. Palestine is unlikely to be the exception. The Gaza war, however, ... More >>
Art Meets Innovation: The BMW I5 Flow NOSTOKANA
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 9:58 am | BMW
Munich/Los Angeles. The BMW Group presents a fusion of art and innovation at the Frieze Los Angeles art fair in the form of the BMW i5 Flow NOSTOKANA. The one- of-a-kind vehicle combines colour-change technology developed by BMW with the artistic language ... More >>
Vanuatu Still Recovering From Twin Cyclones One Year On, As Communities Prepare For Future Disasters
Monday, 4 March 2024, 6:56 pm | Save The Children
Communities in Vanuatu are still recovering from the devastating impacts of damaging twin cyclones that hit in early March 2023, while also preparing themselves to face future climate-crisis fuelled disasters with the support of Save the Children. Category ... More >>
UN Chief Appeals For Greater Support For Small Islands Fighting Climate Change
Monday, 4 March 2024, 6:24 pm | UN News
More funding is needed to support Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on the frontlines of climate change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Saturday in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Mr. Guterres visited a project that is helping the Caribbean ... More >>
Roughly 9,000 Women Killed So Far In Gaza War: UN Women
Monday, 4 March 2024, 6:15 pm | UN News
The Gaza conflict “is also a war on women”, who continue to suffer its devastating impacts, the UN agency championing gender equality has said. UN Women estimated that 9,000 women have been reportedly killed by Israeli forces since the war erupted nearly ... More >>
WHO: Investments And Myth-busting To Improve Hearing
Monday, 4 March 2024, 6:14 pm | UN News
Over 400 million people globally need hearing aids, a study by the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals, but only 20 per cent get them due to lack of financial and human resources, as well as stigma. “Only one out of five people are actually ... More >>
Gaza: ‘Babies Slowly Perishing Under The World’s Gaze,’ UNICEF Warns
Monday, 4 March 2024, 6:13 pm | UN News
A senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has appealed for wider and safer humanitarian access in Gaza, where malnourished babies are slowly dying while the world watches. “The child deaths we feared are here,” Adele Khodr, ... More >>
Exabeam Introduces New AI-powered Cyber Security Features
Monday, 4 March 2024, 12:07 pm | Exabeam
Exabeam , a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations, today announced two pioneering cybersecurity features, Threat Center and Exabeam Copilot, to its market leading AI-driven Exabeam Security Operations Platform. A ... More >>
TangoPay Partners With Currencycloud To Offer Its Clients Remittance Without Boundaries
Monday, 4 March 2024, 11:56 am | TangoPay
Currencycloud, the experts simplifying business in a multi-currency world, has partnered with UK-based Fintech, TangoPay to further enhance its existing remittance service for its UK-based expat customers by adding real-time competitive foreign exchange ... More >>
Security Council Reiterates Call For Immediate And Safe Aid Delivery To Gaza
Sunday, 3 March 2024, 2:05 pm | UN News
The UN Security Council has underscored the need to protect civilians in Gaza after more than 100 Palestinians were killed on Thursday, and several hundred others injured, while waiting for food at an aid convoy. Council members issued a statement on Saturday ... More >>
World News In Brief: Another Month Of Extreme Heat, Sudan Exodus Continues Into Chad, Zero Discrimination Day
Saturday, 2 March 2024, 2:24 pm | UN News
February saw more extreme heat and unusually high temperatures in both hemispheres, the UN weather agency (WMO) said on Friday. Summarizing the state of the climate, the month ended with extreme heat in the southern hemisphere where it’s summer, ... More >>
UN Body Steps Up Pace To Implement Vital Carbon Crediting Mechanism
Saturday, 2 March 2024, 2:18 pm | UNFCCC
The United Nations Body charged with implementing a new carbon crediting mechanism under the Paris Agreement has expedited plans for action at their first meeting since COP28. The Supervisory Body of the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism took a firm ... More >>
On Hypocrisy And Genocide - How Gaza Has Exposed The West Like Never Before
Saturday, 2 March 2024, 9:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. As soon as the Israeli war began, following the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7, every moral or legal frame of reference that Washington and its western allies ... More >>
Joint NGO Statement: EU And Member States Must Sustain Funding To UNRWA
Friday, 1 March 2024, 8:44 pm | Save The Children
In light of the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the Israeli advance on Rafah, the last refuge for more than 1.5 million Palestinian civilians, the undersigned aid organisations are deeply concerned about the current and potential future suspension ... More >>
Unacceptable Repression Of Registered NGOs At Abu Dhabi WTO Ministerial
Friday, 1 March 2024, 11:45 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Along with more than 30 others, I was registered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to attend this week’s ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi (MC13) as a representative of non-government organisation (NGO) the Pacific Network on Globalisation. I am also ... More >>
MSF Horrified By News Of 100 People Killed After IDF Reportedly Opened Fire On Palestinians Waiting For Aid Trucks
Friday, 1 March 2024, 11:39 am | Doctors Without Borders
“We are horrified by the latest news from Gaza City, where over 100 people were killed and about 750 wounded today, according to local health authorities, after Israeli forces reportedly opened fire as Palestinians were waiting to receive food ... More >>
Stories From The UN Archive: Leap Year Events From UN History
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 5:40 pm | UN News
It’s leap year, which gives February a 29th day only once every four years. This #ThrowbackThursday, we’re looking at what has happened on 29 February in UN history. From expanding indigenous peoples’ seats at the UN table to appointing an Israeli-Palestinian ... More >>
Deel Acquires People Development Platform Zavvy
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 9:22 am | Deel
29 February 2024 - Global payroll & HR company Deel announced today that it has acquired German-based people enablement platform Zavvy. All of Zavvy’s team members are joining Deel. Founded in 2021 by Mehmet Yilmaz and Joshua Cornelius, ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence On Public Executions In Afghanistan
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 8:55 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
We are appalled by the public executions of three people at sports stadiums in Afghanistan in the past week. The executions in Ghazni and Sheberghan cities were carried out in the presence of de facto court and other officials, as well as members of the ... More >>
Ensuring Quality Training And Compliance In The NSW Real Estate Sector
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 8:51 am | D2L
As the leading representative organisation for real estate agents and professionals in the property sector in NSW, the REINSW has a diverse cohort of people requiring accreditation and training. From people seeking entry-level positions in the industry ... More >>
Shaping Futures: FAO Empowers Papua New Guinea’s Youth For Policy Advocacy And Sustainable Agricultural Development
Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 8:31 pm | EU STREIT PNG
The FAO, under the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, pioneers youth integration in sustainable agriculture and advocacy in Papua New Guinea. This effort, in collaboration with the government, establishes Provincial Youth Councils in the Sepik region, promoting ... More >>
Forever New Firms Up Infrastructure For Retail Boom With Nutanix
Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 11:22 am | Nutanix
Melbourne, Australia – February 28, 2024 -- Nutanix , Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX ), a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today said Forever New modernised its infrastructure by using Nutanix technology to support its maturing cloud strategy and to help ready ... More >>
RNZAF Assists UK With Maritime Surveillance Of Pitcairn Islands
Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 11:22 am | New Zealand Defence Force
The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) has answered a call from the United Kingdom to support its Blue Belt marine conservation programme, deploying a new P-8A Poseidon aircraft to assist with monitoring of the Pitcairn Islands Exclusive Economic Zone ... More >>
Donors’ Deafening Silence After Republic Of Congo Green-lights Oil Exploration In Conkouati National Park
Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 8:55 am | Greenpeace
Yaoundé, 26 February 2024 – Six weeks after signing a $50 million forest protection deal with donors, the Republic of Congo has given the green light to oil exploration in Conkouati-Douli National Park, the country’s most biodiverse protected area ... More >>
Grundfos Announces Strong 2023 Results And Delivers On Sustainability Ambitions
Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 8:52 am | Grundfos
Building on the solid performances of recent years, Grundfos realised record sales of EUR 4.6bn. This represents a sales growth of 4.2 percent in line with strategic ambitions. EBIT before special items also grew; to a record EUR 578m against EUR ... More >>
Treatment Is Prevention: Stop The Spread Of Infection By Finding All And Treating All TB
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 8:08 pm | CNS
"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” These golden words of Michelangelo perhaps sum up the fundamental gap in the fight to end TB worldwide. The stark reality ... More >>
Belarus: UN Experts Call For Release From Prison Of Veteran Politician Suffering From Cancer
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 6:22 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (26 February 2024) – UN experts* today expressed concern at the reported critical health condition and ill-treatment in detention of Ryhor Kastusiou (Grigoriy Kostusev), a 66-year-old veteran opposition politician serving a 10-year sentence ... More >>
Radware Drives New Revenue Streams For Managed Security Service Providers
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 12:43 pm | Radware
Radware® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, today announced a new flexible business model for managed security service providers (MSSPs). The offering enables service providers to enjoy new revenue streams ... More >>
Richard The Lionheart Fights For Israel
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 9:30 am | Eugene Doyle
Statues and place names are important cultural and ideological markers. They announce in bronze or in typeface who you are and what you stand for. They have, usefully and provocatively, been taking a bit of a beating lately as statues to slavers, agents ... More >>
APEC Drives Quality Growth Agenda
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 9:04 am | APEC
Issued by the APEC Secretariat Lima, Peru, 26 February 2024 APEC officials renew their commitment to advance quality growth in Asia-Pacific by focusing on the social dimension of economic growth, as the first technical cluster of meetings get ... More >>
Opening Statement By Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner For Human Rights To The 55th Session Of The Human Rights Council
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 9:03 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
President of the General Assembly, Secretary-General, President of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, This Council enters into session at a time of seismic global shocks. Conflicts are battering the lives of millions ... More >>
PWDA Announce Formal Response To The Disability Royal Commission Final Report
Monday, 26 February 2024, 7:17 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) is a national Disability Representative Organisation led by, and for, people with disability. The organisation has released a response today that reflects the most up-to-date and comprehensive views of PWDA ... More >>
What Can The Pacific Learn From The EU Parliament Vote Against Norway’s Decision To Advance Deep-sea Mining
Monday, 26 February 2024, 5:50 pm | Pacific Network on Globalisation
By Maureen Penjueli 26th February, 2024 On February the 7th, the European Union (EU) Parliament voted against Norway’s recent decision to advance deep-sea mining in the Arctic by reaffirming its moratorium position and called for the European ... More >>
FWRM Welcomes New Board And Trustee Appointments
Monday, 26 February 2024, 5:43 pm | Fiji Women's Rights Movement
FWRM is pleased to announce the appointment of our new Governance Board Chair Ms. Daiana Buresova who has begun her term this past week, replacing outgoing Chair Ms. Makereta Waqavonovono. Ms. Buresova is a feminist and a lawyer who has a wealth of ... More >>
Ukraine: Two Years Of War Causes Major Mental Health Crisis In Children
Saturday, 24 February 2024, 11:00 pm | UNICEF Aotearoa NZ
As the second anniversary of war in Ukraine approaches on February 24th, attacks continue unabated and a severe mental health crisis amongst the country’s children has emerged, says UNICEF. Two years of destruction, violence, separation from family ... More >>
‘High Time For Peace’, UN Chief Says, As Russia’s Full-scale Invasion Of Ukraine Enters Third Year
Saturday, 24 February 2024, 6:47 pm | UN News
The UN Secretary-General addressed the Security Council on Friday, underscoring the fundamental need to honour the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine, as the full-scale invasion by Russia of the country marks its ... More >>
UN Rights Chief Deplores ‘Entrenched Impunity’ By All Parties In Israel, OPT
Saturday, 24 February 2024, 6:44 pm | UN News
The UN’s top human rights official on Friday made a strong call for accountability for serious violations committed by all parties in Gaza, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. In a new report , the Office of the UN High Commissioner ... More >>
World News In Brief: Fresh Ukraine Attacks Condemned, Gaza Healthcare, DR Congo Needs Escalating
Saturday, 24 February 2024, 6:42 pm | UN News
The top UN aid official in Ukraine deplored new attacks on the cities of Odesa and Dnipro on Friday, as the full-scale Russian invasion of the country enters a third year. The latest strikes in the centre and south occurred on the eve of the solemn ... More >>
Outdated Narratives Have Humanity In A Downward Spiral—It’s Time To Tell ‘Stories For Life’
Saturday, 24 February 2024, 6:38 pm | Independent Media Institute
A short film and narratives project “Stories for Life” seeks to bring about the shift in culture that humanity needs to survive The stories we do and don’t tell about ourselves and these times in which we’re living shape the direction ... More >>
UKRAINE: 42 Civilian Casualties Every Day In Two Years Of War
Friday, 23 February 2024, 4:01 pm | Save The Children
Two years since the escalation of war in Ukraine, more than 10,500 civilians have been killed, including 587 children, and nearly 20,000 injured [1], as constant bombardments, mines, and drone attacks have left a generation traumatised, displaced and fearful ... More >>
MSF To UN Security Council: The People Of Gaza Need An Immediate And Sustained Ceasefire Now
Friday, 23 February 2024, 11:26 am | Doctors Without Borders
NEW YORK, February 22, 2024 —Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), called today on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to demand an immediate ... More >>
PSNA Announces Consumer Boycott Priorities For BDS (Boycott, Divestment And Sanctions) Against Israel
Friday, 23 February 2024, 11:01 am | Palestine Solidarity Network
At a national meeting earlier this week Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa decided on key priorities for consumer boycotts to support the international BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign against Israel. The key consumer boycott priorities ... More >>
Gaza: Families Forced To Forage For Food Left By Rats As 1.1 Million Children Face Starvation
Friday, 23 February 2024, 9:22 am | Save The Children
Families in Gaza are forced to forage for scraps of food left by rats and eating leaves out of desperation to survive with nearly five months of war and rapidly declining aid supplies leaving all 1.1 million children in Gaza facing starvation, Save the ... More >>
Forty Asia-Pacific Countries Unite For An Agrifood Systems Transformation To Ensure Food Security Of Future Generations
Thursday, 22 February 2024, 8:37 pm | UN FAO
22/02/2024, Colombo – Forty countries from the Asia and Pacific region today agreed that transforming agrifood systems was imperative to providing food security for their children’s generation and beyond, the Food and Agriculture Organization of ... More >>
Three Million Children In Ukraine Face Even Greater Risk After Two Years Of War
Thursday, 22 February 2024, 9:48 am | World Vision New Zealand
The war in Ukraine is about to hit the two-year mark and millions of children are still in urgent need of mental health support, education, and protection. More than 6.4 million people have fled Ukraine in the past two years, while more than 3.6 million ... More >>
Why Won’t Biden Wave The Magic Wand In His Hand To Stop Israel?
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 6:24 pm | Independent Media Institute
If stopping genocide is not a good enough reason for Biden to rein in Israel’s blood thirst, is losing the 2024 election a risk he’s willing to take? As Israel’s war on Gaza continues unabated, the United States, which holds great leverage over ... More >>
ITUC Joins ILO Global Coalition For Social Justice
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 6:04 pm | ITUC
The ITUC is now a member of the Global Coalition for Social Justice – a ground-breaking initiative aimed at intensifying collective efforts to address social justice deficits. ITUC General Secretary Luc Triangle said: “The Coalition is key to tackling increasing ... More >>
The Climate Crisis And Accessing Finance Top Agenda At APRC37
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 5:52 pm | UN FAO
The climate crisis and accessing finance top agenda at high-level gathering of Small Island Developing States, Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing Countries at APRC37 FAO hosts event where Ministers from the Asia-Pacific also discuss common ... More >>
UN Forum Urges Commitments Be Translated Into Concrete Actions In Asia & The Pacific, Ahead Of ‘Pact For The Future’
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 5:46 pm | UN ESCAP
The 11th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) opened today in Bangkok with a resounding call for countries to take urgent, accelerated actions supported by strong, sustained multilateral cooperation – or risk falling further behind ... More >>
DR Congo: Fighting Threatens Stability Of Entire Region, Envoy Warns
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 5:17 pm | UN News
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), fighting between the M23 armed group and national forces has further compounded the dire humanitarian situation in the east, the head of the UN Mission in the country, MONUSCO, said on Tuesday. Briefing ... More >>
UN Allocates $100 Million For Underfunded Emergencies
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 3:06 pm | UN News
The UN’s top relief official on Tuesday released $100 million from the Organization’s core humanitarian emergency fund to support underfunded aid operations in seven countries in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. The new allocation from the Central ... More >>
DR Congo: Fighting Threatens Stability Of Entire Region, Envoy Warns
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 3:05 pm | UN News
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), fighting between the M23 armed group and national forces has further compounded the dire humanitarian situation in the east, the head of the UN Mission in the country, MONUSCO, said on Tuesday. Briefing ... More >>
UKRAINE - Over 600,000 Children Return Home To "extreme Needs" Including Danger, Destruction And Poverty
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 1:43 pm | Save The Children
As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, around 630,000 children - over one in 12 of the total pre-war child population - who were displaced have returned home to face extreme needs relating to their family's livelihoods, health, and threats ... More >>
No Respite For Children And Families In Gaza As UN Security Council Ceasefire Resolution Fails To Pass
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 10:46 am | Save The Children
The lives of at least one million children in Gaza remain at risk from fighting, starvation and disease, as well as ongoing severe mental distress from months of war, after the UN Security Council failed to pass yet another ceasefire resolution, ... More >>
Coates Acquires GTH Equipment
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 10:34 am | Coates
The acquisition of the assets of the Smithfield-headquartered GTH Equipment sees Coates add more than 650 market-leading assets to its equipment hire fleet nationally, while establishing an additional base of operations in the heart of greater Sydney’s ... More >>
CAPHRA Hightlights Flaws In Tobacco Control And Rise Of Black Market
Tuesday, 20 February 2024, 6:07 pm | CAPHRA
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) today issued a stark warning about the unintended consequences of current tobacco control policies, including the alarming rise in the illicit tobacco trade and the unjust vilification ... More >>
Autism Spectrum Australia Boosts Efficiency, Bolsters IT With ManageEngine
Tuesday, 20 February 2024, 11:34 am | Autism Spectrum Australia Aspect
SYDNEY, Australia — 20 Feb, 2023 — Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) has increased efficiency and streamlined processes for reliable IT support with the help of ManageEngine’s suite of products. As a non-profit organisation and Australia’s largest autism-specific ... More >>