NATO stated for the first time that it will address the issue of climate change by factoring in environmental concerns as part of the military alliance's activities, including conducting annual assessments on climate change.
CTO of Wiise, Hamish Browne, writes on how, after a decade of surveillance capitalism growth, tech’s new focus on privacy will lead to new rules and new ways of doing business for marketers.
The European Union is increasingly encroaching in the domestic affairs of member states, including the recent announcement that the Commission is suing at least seven countries in the bloc in the Court of Justice for breaking EU law.
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation congratulated Albania, Gabon, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for securing one-year seats on the UN Security Council (UNSC), identifying the UNSC as a platform for the three OIC member-states to promote Islamic values and interests.
NATO stated for the first time that it will address the issue of climate change by factoring in environmental concerns as part of the military alliance's activities, including conducting annual assessments on climate change.
As July 9th approaches, when Finance ministers from the world’s largest 20 economies will meet to create a plan on how to tax the world’s largest companies, Politico highlights five things that could potentially stop the deal.
World Bank President David Malpass has stated that the bank does not support waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organization highlighting concerns that such a move would limit innovation in the pharmaceuticals sector.
According to former US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz , as the ESG [environment, social and governance standards] movement continues to be a key factor among major investors, and the government’s intention to demand more climate risk disclosures, oil and gas companies will need to increase the pace of their energy transition to a low-carbon economy.
Privacy and tech experts are highlighting the potential for Amazon Sidewalk customers to have their Alexa devices linked to those owned by neighbors as the company plunges further into surveillance capitalism.
CTO of Wiise, Hamish Browne, writes on how, after a decade of surveillance capitalism growth, tech’s new focus on privacy will lead to new rules and new ways of doing business for marketers.
In an effort by environmentalists to stop new oil drilling in Norway, the activists have brought the case before European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), arguing that the drilling affects human rights, depriving young people of their future.
The European Union is increasingly encroach in the domestic affairs of member states, including the recent announcement that the Commission is suing at least seven countries in the bloc in the Court of Justice for breaking EU law.
In a shift to mandatory compliance, the German Parliament passed a law requiring large and medium-sized businesses to do their due diligence in combating human rights violations along their supply chain with fines being up to 2% of their international revenue and exclusion from public procurement for up to three years.
Indonesia’s government has banned several Islamist extremist groups who used violence to push for a sharia state, but mainstream Islamist groups are adopting non-violent, softer versions of the same policies, which aim to force these policies on society according to sharia principles which discriminate against non-confirming Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities.
A series of social media videos by Turkey's most infamous mob boss has pointed to the expansive criminality of Turkey’s ruling Islamist regime, with revelations of government-involved narcotics trafficking, weapons transfers to jihadist groups, and targeted assassinations of political opponents.
The Afghan Taliban are using public ideological statements and operational networks of cooperation with salafi-jihadist groups across Central Asia, China, and Russia, in order to pressure Central Asian states to reject US efforts to secure basing rights for air support to the Afghan government in the wake of American forces’ withdrawal.
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