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WHO Launches $1 Billion Appeal Amid Funding Shortfalls and Widening Gaps in Healthcare Access
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UN Human Rights Office Launches USD 400 million Appeal to Address Global Human Rights Needs
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UN Security Council: Reform or Irrelevance
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Is the US Planning to Throw a Lifeline to a Sinking UN?
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When Protection Meets the Sea: Rethinking Marine Protected Areas with Fishing Communities
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To Fix the Rupture, Trade is not Enough
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‘We Are Seeing an Economic Transition, but No Democratic Transition’
By CIVICUS
Feb 4 2026 -
CIVICUS discusses the situation following the US intervention in Venezuela with Guillermo Miguelena Palacios, director of the Venezuelan Progressive Institute, a think tank that promotes spaces for [...] Read more »
Humanitarian Access Collapses as Yemen’s Political and Security Crisis Deepens
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Myanmar: Five Years Since the Coup and No End in Sight To War
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Is it the Budgetary Crisis – Or Leadership Crisis – Facing the United Nations – Or Both?
By Anwarul K. Chowdhury
NEW YORK, Feb 3 2026 - In the month of February 2025, one year ago, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commenced his briefing of the media by announcing that “I want to start by expressing my deep [...] Read more »
High Seas Treaty Will Transform Our Fragile Ocean for the Better
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Group of 77—Representing 134 Nations, Plus China– Protest Funding Cuts for South-South Cooperation
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Protecting Africa’s Ocean Future and Why a Precautionary Pause on Deep-sea Mining Matters
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Support Science in Halting Global Biodiversity Crisis—King Charles
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