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Edith M. Lederer

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Reporter with The Associated Press

9 Articles

Jane Fonda campaigns for marine treaty to save 'our brethren in the ocean'

Actress and activist Jane Fonda is campaigning for a treaty to save marine creatures that are hunted for food including sharks, swordfish, octopus and tuna, saying they feel joy, feel sadness when they lose their offspring, and “are our brethren in the ocean.”
News | February 22nd 2023

'Knocking on famine's door': UN food chief calls on wealthy countries to help

The U.N. food chief warned on Thursday, September 22, 2022, that the world is facing “a perfect storm on top of a perfect storm” and urged donors, particularly Gulf nations and billionaires, to give a few days of profits to tackle a crisis with the fertilizer supply right now and prevent widespread food shortages next year.
News | September 23rd 2022

UN chief slams oil companies for their 'grotesque greed'

The United Nations chief sharply criticized the “grotesque greed” of oil and gas companies on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, for making record profits from the energy crisis on the back of the world’s poorest people, “while destroying our only home.”
News | August 4th 2022
United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres,

UN says women pay highest price in conflicts such as the war in Ukraine

Women and girls pay the highest price in all crises and conflicts from Myanmar and Afghanistan to the Sahel and Haiti, and “the horrifying war in Ukraine now joins that list,” the head of the U.N. women’s agency said on Monday, March 14, 2022.
News, Politics | March 15th 2022
Izumi Nakamitsu, nuclear non-proliferation treaty,

Security Council will hear Russian claim of US labs in Ukraine

The U.N. Security Council scheduled a meeting on Friday, March 11, 2022, at Russia’s request to discuss what Moscow claims are “the military biological activities of the U.S. on the territory of Ukraine,” allegations vehemently denied by Ukraine's leader and the Biden administration.
News, US News, Politics | March 11th 2022

Ceasfire on agenda as UN meets to discuss Russia’s attack on Ukraine

The U.N.’s two major bodies -- the 193-nation General Assembly and the more powerful 15-member Security Council -- are holding separate meetings Monday on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, reflecting widespread demands for a cease-fire and escalating concern for the millions of Ukrainians caught up in the war.
News, Politics | February 28th 2022

Leaders warn UN that a warmer world is a more violent one, too

At a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, the officials urged the UN’s most powerful body to do more to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming a key part of all UN peacekeeping operations.
News | September 23rd 2021

Sombre mood at UN agenda as leaders discuss racism, climate and divisions

Racism, the climate crisis and the world’s worsening divisions will take centre stage at the United Nations on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. chief issued a grim warning that “we are on the edge of an abyss.”
Race to a Safer World
News, Politics | September 22nd 2021

UN reports millions fled their homes last year despite COVID crisis

War, violence, persecution, human rights violations and other factors caused nearly 3 million people to flee their homes last year, even though the COVID-19 crisis restricted movement worldwide, the U.N. refugee agency said in a report Friday.
News | June 18th 2021

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