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• Mask Off – Recapping the 2025 World Bank Land Conference

  15 de mayo, puesto en línea por Andy Currier
  Last week, at its annual Land Conference in Washington D.C., (May 5-8), the World Bank showed allegiance to the new US administration by dropping the pretense of promoting land reform for climate action and confirming that its land agenda is about boosting corporate profits. Climate Focus (…)

• Bye-Bye Marriage, Hello Cohabitation

  14 de mayo, puesto en línea por Joseph Chamie
  Until the middle of the 20th century, marriage between men and women was the societal norm among countries, and the cohabitation of couples was uncommon and stigmatized. In the subsequent decades, however, that situation changed significantly worldwide. Marriage rates, especially among young (…)

• A Natural Disaster that Has Affected More People Worldwide Than Any Other

  14 de mayo, puesto en línea por Danielle Nierenberg
  Here’s a question: Over the past 40 years, what natural disaster has affected more people around the globe than any other? The answer, according the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is drought. The past 10 years have been the hottest 10 years on record, and higher temperatures and (…)

• UN80 Initiative: Equipping the Organization in an Era of Extraordinary Uncertainty

  13 de mayo, puesto en línea por Guterres
  UN Secretary-General’s briefing to delegates on the UN80 initiative.

• UN’s Proposed Structural Changes Laid Out in a “Strictly Confidential” Internal Document

  13 de mayo, puesto en línea por Thalif Deen
  A six-page internal document, marked “STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL” on every single page – indicating restricted access to protect sensitive information– is one of the most comprehensive “compilation of non-attributable suggestions by the UN80 Task Force” on the proposed restructuring of the world (…)