Rich countries must update financial vows to tackle climate crisis, UN says
Patricia Espinosa says fulfilling $100-billion-a-year promise must be top priority to support developing world.
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Trend toward assisted dying for non-terminal conditions alarms UN experts
United Nations human rights experts are alarmed by what they see as a growing trend to enact legislation allowing medical assistance in dying for people suffering from non-terminal, disabling conditions.
Fossil fuel production must drop 6% a year to meet climate goals: UN report
Instead, governments around the world, including Canada, expect to go in the opposite direction — producing more coal, oil or natural gas, which will result in more than double what is consistent with the Paris Agreement.
UN sounds the alarm on poverty, food security and COVID-19
The rise of COVID-19 has resulted in an increase in global poverty for the first time in years.
Canada's international reputation stained by UN Yemen war report
Canada has been locked into an arms contract with Saudi Arabia since 2014, providing them military equipment used in the brutal Yemen war.
After Meng ruling, Trudeau stresses Canada’s ‘independent judicial system’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s comments came after the Chinese Embassy expressed its “firm opposition” to the Meng ruling and accused Canada of acting as an “accomplice” of the United States, urging the nation “not to go further down the wrong path.”
Canadian military postpones overseas missions due to COVID-19
The Canadian Armed Forces is postponing the deployment of a warship and surveillance aircraft to help enforce United Nations' sanctions against North Korea because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More online predators dangerously targeting kids at home
The COVID-19 outbreak has sparked an increase in online child sexual predators that organizations, governments and parents need to take more seriously, says the head of the United Nations children's agency.
Anxious Canadians await economic aid as COVID-19 cases soar
Canadians struggling to make ends meet amid the COVID-19 pandemic wait for help as the countrywide case toll soared through the 3,000 mark and authorities began going after people violating public health orders.
UN disarmament chief warns of 'dark side' of AI
The United Nations' top disarmament official says governments need to pay more attention to the "dark side" of artificial intelligence, including the implications of so-called killer robots that could take military decisions out of human hands.
Canada and allied countries appeal for world's help on Venezuela crisis
Canada and its Western Hemisphere allies are calling on the rest of the democratic world to help bring stability to Venezuela, hobbled by a refugee crisis and economic collapse under a dictator they deem illegitimate.
Trump nominates new US ambassador to Canada
Aldona Z. Wos, a former Manhattan physician, Republican fundraiser and North Carolina lawmaker who once was George W. Bush's ambassador to Estonia, has been nominated by President Donald Trump as the next American emissary to Canada, the White House announced on Tuesday, February 11, 2020.
Bees disappearing due to climate change
Research measuring the effort of climate change on bees suggests they are only half as likely to be found in areas where they were once common.
Former UN committee member stands by Wet'suwet'en hereditary clan chiefs
A former member of an anti-racism committee at the United Nations says she stands by its statement in support of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary clan chiefs.