by Christina Johnson | Mar 8, 2025 | Turtle Bay
Every year on 8 March, the United Nations honors women’s achievements with International Women’s Day (IWD) and calls for action to accelerate gender equality. Initially marked by demonstrations and celebrations across Central Europe in 1911, IWD continues to be...
by Nathan Tripp | Jun 9, 2022 | Turtle Bay
A looming specter called Climate Change continues to cast a shadow over communities across the globe. With greenhouse gas concentrations being at their highest, and emissions continuing to rise, the last decade has been the warmest on record. Despite the Paris...
by AMUN Staff | Nov 20, 2021 | AMUN Chronicle
Human Rights Council: The Human Rights Council (HRC) is tasked with setting human rights standards, as well as bringing non-compliant countries into compliance. One of the standards the HRC has been working on is Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7.C: to halve, by...
by AMUN Staff | Nov 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
The forced displacement of people around the world due to conflict, human rights violations or other violence and persecution remains a massive global challenge, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimating that 82.4 million people were...
by Amrita Bhagia | Jul 20, 2021 | Turtle Bay
Sometimes the world’s eyes turn to the United States. What Americans may think of as domestic or political issues may also be considered through a global human rights, human security or justice lens. On 20 April 2021, Officer Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police...
