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treasury sanctions moscow bank boosting venezuela's maduro

By imposing sanctions on bank owned by, President Trump is intensifying pressure on Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro Russian and Venezuelan government-owned enterprises, Treasury Department announced Monday... ..

women's prisons: a feminist issue - prism

2011 report by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on female prisoners Pakistan revealed that out of 395 women imprisoned Pakistan, approximately 40pc were prison due to murder, while 24pc were due to drug-related offences. ..

nature and adaptation to climate change

The Commission is preparing flagship report to contribute to the UN climate summit next September and to the adaption summit to be hosted by The Netherlands October 2020. working meeting was held at UN Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom,..

is trump’s assault on international law working?

In practice, international law has helped to construct a system—exemplified by the United Nations, Bretton Woods, and NATO regimes—that has functioned as a critically important, system of global governance resembling that urged by Immanuel Kant in . ... Their concerted effort to..

us negotiations: masters of defeats

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un have been engaged in negotiations, for nearly a year. ... President Kim Jong-Un proposed to (1) dismantle nuclear testing sites, (2) announced a moratorium on nuclear tests and inter-continental range ballistic missiles tests, and (3)..

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had stated that tens of thousands of children under the age of five have died of Yemen ever since Saudi Arabia and number of its allies launched atrocious military aggression against the impoverished country nearly four years ago... The..

geneva / myanmar human rights

SOUNDBITE Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative of Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the UN.. ... Myanmar's Rakhine state continues to face humanitarian crisis and the suppression of people's basic rights, UN Human Rights Council-appointed expert said on Monday, in appeal for the..

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