United Nations & International Orgs

4+ hour, 19+ min ago   (533+ words) My pastor, William H. Lamar IV of Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., introduced two compelling phrases Sunday morning: “visual ideologies” and “the politics of diminishment.” He was talking about the familiar Mercator projection, which enlarges Europe, North America and Greenland while…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (295+ words) By Human Rights Watch...

4+ day, 46+ min ago   (761+ words) Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations’ endorsement of a new global map is intended to better represent the relative sizes of continents and regions, giving particular prominence to Africa…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (428+ words) OPINION: Basically, the point is to make racial discrimination great again by eliminating race from the conversation, but not the outcome. According to the proposal, the questionnaire should not include questions about race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. It argues the…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (251+ words) The U.S. was the only country to vote against a U.N. resolution encouraging maps that more accurately represent Africa’s true size. The United States stood alone at the United Nations last week when 164 countries voted to support an African-led campaign challenging how…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1151+ words) The Trump administration has already cut off Cuba’s access to oil. Now it’s attempting to starve the Cuban people, targeting the country’s capacity to grow, process, and import food — unless it buys from US corporations. Originally published in Jacobin. Cuba’s…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (47+ words) By Mordecai Muriisa...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (725+ words) The consequences follow a June 25 U.S. Supreme Court decision that cleared a major legal obstacle to the Trump administration’s termination of TPS for Haitians. In its ruling, the Supreme Court held that the TPS statute bars judicial review of nonconstitutional challenges…...