Background On What the Annual UN General Assembly Is All About
U.N. headquarters. Photo: Javier Carbajal Commons Wikimedia World leaders meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York City for about 10 days every year starting on the…
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U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL GUTERRES: CLIMATE CRISIS POSES “NEW DANGER” TO WORLD PEACE
U.N. Secretary-General Guterres: "Today, peace faces a new danger: the climate emergency, which threatens our security, our livelihoods and our lives." Photo: Wikimedia Commons U.N. Secretary-General Guterres: climate…
Disability Rights Promoted at the United Nations
The rights of persons with disabilities got a big boost from representatives of the World Health Organization, United African Congress, International Association of Applied Psychology and high level…
SENATOR CORY BOOKER RELEASES CLIMATE CHANGE BILL WITH NEW DEAL AS BLUEPRINT
Senator Cory Booker: “In FDR’s New Deal, the federal government planted billions of trees, provided conservation incentives to family farmers and ranchers, created hundreds of thousands of jobs…
London: Diaspora Ugandans Protest Deadly Lawless Land-grabs By Country’s Dictator Gen. Museveni For “Investors”
Ugandan Diaspora in U.K. protest the deadly lawless regime land-grabs for foreign investors in their homeland. Statement by Ugandans in the United Kingdom Demanding End to Land Grabs…
Belgium’s Neocolonialism Rebuffed By Africa at United Nations Security Council
Gilbert T. Mundela on Monday in New York City. Belgiums's high-stakes attempt to have the United Nations intervene in Congo's election outcome and road-block Felix Tshisekedi fizzled today…
U.A.C. Congratulates Sidique Wai — Sworn in as Sierra Leone’s New U.S. Envoy
Ambassador Sidique Abubakar Wai, formerly of the NYPD and United African Congress is D.C.-bound. H.E Ambassador Sidique Abubakar Wai Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Sierra…
Paul Kagame’s Fake Pan-Africanism: A Betrayal to Rwanda and Africa
Kagame at the United Nations President Paul Kagame has been on one of the numerous costly pilgrimages that he makes to the United States every year. Last month…
2030 Agenda: Prospects for Growth and Development, Historical Review
Decades after the founding of the Organization of African Unity, now superceded by the African Union (AU), development for continent remains elusive The world is confronted with serious…
Petition: Guterres Don’t Let Museveni Use U.N. to Politicize Suffering of South Sudan Refugees
Secretary General Guterres. Photo--Flickr A PETITION The United Nations. New York City Dear Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Visit the South Sudanese refugees but don't let Gen. Yoweri Museveni…