The Real News heads to the UN to find out what exactly is being discussed there to provoke such a response from the West.
William Bradley | Posted 08.12.2009 | Media
American media, especially cable TV news, is moving more into infotainment mode, stuck on a few areas. Geopolitics has never been its strong suit, and political coverage is mostly focused on food fights.
Sharon L. Camp | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
World Population Day serves as an urgent reminder that, even amidst a global recession and tight budgets, governments must boost investments in global health -- especially the health of mothers.
BBC | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
The Pope has called for reform of the United Nations and financial bodies, giving them the "real teeth" needed to tackle economic and social injustice...
Dan Silverstein | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business
Nestle has taken specific and measurable steps to achieve sustainable, shared value.
World Vision | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
While non-G8 donors are responsible for a quarter of the total African aid increase since 2005, and are delivering on their side of the deal, aid from the G8 countries has actually fallen.
Christiana Wyly | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
Without coordinated efforts by developed nations to help the world's poorest nations, 100 million people may fall into extreme poverty each year for the foreseeable future.
The Washington Post | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
The U.N.'s top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try th...
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration is reviving efforts to have the United States sign onto a global children's rights treaty ratified by ...
David Vines | Posted 07.23.2009 | New York
As mass protesting and violence continue to rage through the streets of Tehran, Iranian-Americans and sympathizers gathered at the U.N. Saturday to demonstrate on behalf of Iranian freedom.
Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.21.2009 | World
Kadivar is one of Iran's most respected clerics. His words are powerful because he is able to counter the religious arguments of the Ayatollah with his own sound religious and theological logic.
Kumi Naidoo | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
The financial and economic crisis is hitting the poor the worst.
Bradley Burston | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
Even if a recount should topple Ahmadinejad, Mousavi is firmly on record as supporting the nuclear program, and opposing changes aimed at barring Iran from using it to produce weaponry.
Parvez Sharma | Posted 07.16.2009 | World
This is a first person account from the filmmaker James Longley, who was violently detained in Tehran.
AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green
BONN, Germany — U.N. climate delegates completed their first rough sketch of a new global warming agreement Friday, a draft replete with gaps an...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
World Environment Day, which falls on June 5 every year, was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 -- shortly after the US instituted Earth D...
TIME | Randy James Thursday, Jun. 04, 2009 | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
Specifics aside, the report is doubtlessly intended to haunt world leaders as they gather in Copenhagen later this year to negotiate a successor to th...
AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green
BONN, Germany — Negotiators from 181 countries began work on the first draft of a new global warming treaty Monday, calling it a good beginning ...
Mona Sarika | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
By communicating the problems to the local and international community, bloggers are hoping to mobilize financial and monetary support for refugees.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
Today there are eight nuclear weapons states. North Korea, which just tested its second device, makes nine.
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 06.25.2009 | World
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council swiftly condemned North Korea's nuclear test on Monday as "a clear violation" of a 2006 resolution an...
Carne Ross | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
Changes are afoot in the way power works in the world. New axes of power are emerging.
Wall Street Journal | STEVE STECKLOW | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
The United Nations, which aspires to protect human rights around the world, is struggling to deal with an embarrassing string of sexual-harassment com...
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former President Bill Clinton became the U.N.'s first special envoy to Haiti on Tuesday, bringing an unmatched combinati...
The Real News | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics