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Sanction as Genocide: Legal Overview of Iran Case
By Ameneh Dehshiri Trump announced ‘highest sanctions ever’ targeting Iran’s central bank. Iranian officials, like President Hassan Rohani and Zarif, has…
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Migration and the climate crisis: the UN’s search
Throughout human history, migration and climate have always been connected, but in the modern era, the impacts of the man-made…
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Remittances matter: 8 facts you don’t know about the money migrants send back home
This Sunday marks the second International Day of Family Remittances, observed every year on 16 June, in recognition of the fundamental contribution…
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Ensuring the ‘lungs of the planet’ keep us alive: 5 things you need to know about forests and the UN
Forests are vitally important for sustaining life on Earth, and play a major role in the fight against climate change.…
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Iran Floods and UN’s Response
Op-Ed by UN Resident Coordinator in IRI in Hamshahri Newspaper We, at the United Nations (UN), are deeply saddened…
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Wars have rules: 5 things the UN humanitarian chief wants countries to tackle so human suffering in conflict can be minimized
With the rights and lives of millions of women, children and men uprooted by conflict every year, the UN Security…
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Islamic finance for social good: Sustainable development in Islamic social finance
By: Aamir A Rehman; Senior Advisor on Islamic Finance, UNDP The term ‘Islamic Social Finance’ refers to modes of finance…
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New ways of thinking about climate change
The impact of humans on our planet is now so large that many scientists are declaring a new phase of…
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Climate Change and the Rise of Poverty
By Kishan Khoday & Walid Ali Today over 2 billion people – one third of the global population –…
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Four lessons for primary health care from the global response to HIV
By Beth Tritter, Jeffrey Markuns Last month, alongside the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, the International AIDS Society-Lancet Commission launched a groundbreaking report on the future…
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