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As President Joe Biden moves quickly to reinstate the full slate of environmental policies weakened by former President Donald Trump, including the landmark Migratory Bird Treaty Act, he’s signaling that climate change and biodiversity loss are now major priorities for the US.
Earlier this month, the Interior Department also launched a campaign to conserve 30 percent of US land and water by 2030, joining more than 50 other countries that have committed to that goal. Biden is pursuing the target, known as 30 by 30, alongside a new and more ambitious commitment to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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President Joe Biden has been blunt about the enormity of the challenge that his and other democratic governments face in this era of rising authoritarianism. “This is a battle between the utility of democracies in the twenty-first century and autocracies,” he said in his first White House press conference. “That’s what’s at stake here. We’ve got to prove democracy works.”
Values are back, and not only on the domestic front. Biden’s administration will place greater emphasis on defending human rights around the world, including in China and Russia. He wants humanitarian need to figure in military strategy and has withdrawn U.S. support for offensive measures by the Saudi-led coalition fighting against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which is now home to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. He wants the United States to live up to its legal and moral commitments and has restored some rights to asylum seekers.
Cuba in favor of eliminating causes of arms trafficking
Cuba in favor of eliminating causes of arms trafficking
Vienna, May 11 (Prensa Latina) In order to eradicate illegal arms trafficking, we must fight its socioeconomic causes, Marlen Redondo, member of Cuba s Permanent Mission at the UN, in Austria, said on Tuesday.
The third secretary of the Cuban delegation at the United Nations in this capital called for international cooperation and assistance to the States that request it, according to their needs.
During a speech at the Working Group on Firearms, Redondo highlighted that her country complies with the commitments as a member State of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its annexed Firearms Protocol, which it joined in February, 2007.
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 6:07 am
The Euro-Mediterrnaen Human Rights Monitor has organized
a webinar to discuss the EU’s approach towards the war in
Yemen. The webinar was moderated by Muhammad Shehada,
Euro-Med Monitor’s Chief of Programs and Communications ,
and was kicked off with remarks by Abdul Galil Shaif, the
Chairman of Friends of South Yemen. “The war in Yemen is
not necessarily a war between Yemenis, it is also a proxy
war at a regional and international level on Yemeni soil.
There is no military soultion to this conflict, otherwise
the continuation of the war will only increase the suffering
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