News of organisation

Argentina seeking US$5 billion from multilateral banks for 2021

22-12-2020 20:41 Argentina is seeking about US$5 billion for next year from multilateral organisations other than the International Monetary Fund, reports Bloomberg.

HUMAN RIGHTS

OAS chief Almagro under fire for removal of top rights official

01-09-2020 16:05 OAS secretary general and ombudswoman at centre of bitter feud with the leadership of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), the region’s top rights watchdog.

Global pandemic

Global virus deaths pass 650,000 as new surges prompt fresh curbs

27-07-2020 17:08 Even as the grim figures keep rolling in, the World Health Organisation is arguing against a wholesale closing of borders, as global death toll reaches 650,000.

Global pandemic

Ignoring outrage, Trump makes good on WHO pullout

08-07-2020 00:09 In late May, Trump said that China exerted "total control" over the WHO and accused the UN body of failing to implement reforms.

Global pandemic

Sex workers sharing food to survive during virus pandemic

07-06-2020 21:41 With no possibility of making a living during the pandemic, Peruvian sex workers have organised a soup kitchen in order to survive with their children.

Global pandemic

WHO warns of pressure on Latin American health systems

02-06-2020 15:21 Four of the 10 countries showing the greatest number of new Covid-19 cases over the last 24 hours were in Latin America, the World Health Organisation's emergencies director Michael Ryan said.

GLOBAL PANDEMIC

Trump says the United States will cut ties with WHO

30-05-2020 10:04 Move likely to spark dismay, especially in other parts of the world where the coronavirus outbreak has yet to reach its peak.

Global pandemic

Trump says United States is 'terminating' relationship with WHO

29-05-2020 18:12 Trump accuses Geneva-based WHO of being a "puppet" of China, and said the funding freeze would become permanent unless it made "substantive improvements."

Global pandemic

WHO warns that first wave of Covid-19 pandemic is not over

26-05-2020 11:15 Top World Health Organisation official cautions that world is "right in the middle of the first wave globally," as cases in Brazil and India surge.

Coronavirus pandemic

Trump halts US funding to the World Health Organization

14-04-2020 23:52 Trump cuts off funding to the World Health Organisation in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the UN body of mishandling the crisis. Washington contributed US$400 million to the WHO last year.

BLOOMBERG - OPINION

Coronavirus thrives in Latin America’s multilateral vacuum

25-03-2020 15:47 Shutting down is part of the new global normal. The danger in Latin America is that such sweeping measures feed the tempting illusion that walls, wilfulness and nativism are the way to beat a threat that is already ubiquitous.

by Mac Margolis

Coronavirus pandemic

UN: 85% of new infections, deaths coming from Europe, United States

24-03-2020 08:50 WHO says infections and deaths globally from the new coronavirus are expected to increase “considerably” when global figures are published later Tuesday.

Coronavirus pandemic

ILO warns pandemic could make another 25 million jobless

18-03-2020 18:12 An estimated 24.7 million more people will become jobless as a result of the coronavirus crisis, warns International Labour Organisation, on top of the 188 million registered as unemployed in 2019, the study found.

Coronavirus pandemic

World Health Organisation declares coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic

11-03-2020 14:47 By reversing course and using the charged word it had previously shied away from, United Nations health agency is seeking to shock lethargic countries into pulling out all the stops.

Bloomberg

US to prioritise Brazil over Argentina in OECD reversal

15-01-2020 09:06 Washington to tell OECD officials that US now prioritises Brazil's bid for membership, rather than Argentina's.

BLOOMBERG

OPEC predicts market share will shrink in years to come, with shale on rise

05-11-2019 14:26 Producers expect demand for oil to slide by 7% over next four years, amid a flood of US shale supplies.

BOLIVIAN ELECTION

Rioting erupts as Bolivian authorities claim Morales near outright win

22-10-2019 08:16 Country braces for general strike after voting chaos sparks outrage among opposition supporters and concerns from the United States and Organisation of American States.

Global economic outlook

OECD: Trade tensions slam brakes on global economy

19-09-2019 09:41 In an update to its economic forecasts from May, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development cuts global growth forecast for year to 2.9%, predicts 2.7% contraction for Argentina.