Category: United Nations

Pakistan Flood Death Toll Tops 1,300

SEHWAN, Pakistan—Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday visited some of the flood-hit areas that cover as much as a third of the South Asian nation, where 18 more deaths took the toll from days of rain to 1,343. As many as 33 million of a population of 220 million have been affected, officials estimate….


UN Education Agency Launches War on ‘Conspiracy Theories’ 

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, better known by its acronym, UNESCO, is escalating its global war on ideas and information it considers to be “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories.” According to the Paris-based U.N. education agency, which released a major report on the subject for educators this summer, conspiracy theories cause “significant harm” and form…


UN Helicopter Crashes in East Congo, 3 Crew Injured

DAKAR—A United Nations helicopter crashed on Friday morning as it was flying over east Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said. The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service chopper, managed by the WFP, went down near the city of Goma. There were no passengers on board and three crew…


Canadian Embassy Says Its Xinjiang Posts Were Censored on Chinese Social Media

Canada’s embassy in Beijing says censors have removed its posts about a United Nations report on human rights in Xinjiang from two Chinese social media platforms. The embassy Tweeted that it shared Canada’s response to this week’s report on Weibo and WeChat, but the posts were taken down. The report published Wednesday says China’s treatment of…


UN Rights Chief’s Tenure Ends in Disappointment for China Activists

GENEVA—Michelle Bachelet, once a political detainee under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and a doctor for tortured children, pledged to be the champion of victims when she became U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2018. But as her tenure ends on Wednesday, family members and advocates for those caught up in China’s repression of dissent…


UN, World Economic Forum Behind Global ‘War on Farmers’: Experts

The escalating regulatory attack on agricultural producers from Holland and the United States to Sri Lanka and beyond is closely tied to the United Nations’ “Agenda 2030” Sustainable Development Goals and the U.N.’s partners at the World Economic Forum (WEF), numerous experts told The Epoch Times. Indeed, several of the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals…


UN and World Economic Forum Behind Global ‘War on Farmers’: Experts 

The escalating regulatory attack on agricultural producers from Holland and the United States to Sri Lanka and beyond is closely tied to the United Nations “Agenda 2030” Sustainable Development Goals and the U.N.’s partners at the World Economic Forum (WEF), numerous experts told The Epoch Times. Indeed, several of the U.N.’s 17 “Sustainable Development Goals”…


UN and World Economic Forum Behind Global ‘War on Farmers’

The escalating regulatory attack on agricultural producers from Holland and the United States to Sri Lanka and beyond is closely tied to the United Nations “Agenda 2030” Sustainable Development Goals and the U.N.’s partners at the World Economic Forum (WEF), numerous experts told The Epoch Times. Indeed, several of the U.N.’s 17 “Sustainable Development Goals”…


Most Democrats Want to Abolish Supreme Court or Involve United Nations: Poll

A majority of Democrats want to abolish the Supreme Court, according to a new survey. Fifty-three percent of Democrat respondents to a Rasmussen Reports poll said they would favor legislation that would terminate the court and replace it with “a new, democratically elected” court “with justices chosen by the American people.” Majorities of independents and…


UN: India to ‘Surpass China as the Most Populous Country During 2023’

The United Nations released the “World Population Prospects 2022: Summary of Results” (WPP) on July 11 (pdf), which is World Population Day. The report says: “India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country during 2023,” and “The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion on Nov. 15, 2022.” Countries of sub-Saharan…