Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is a multilateral treaty that regulates the international trade in conventional weapons, which has not entered into force. International weapons commerce has been estimated to reach US$70 billion a year. It must be workable and enforceable. It must: provide guidelines for the treaty's full,...

GLOBAL NUTRITION FOR GROWTH PACT

World leader signed a global agreement to fight malnutrition in children and made commitments of up to 4.15 billion dollars to tackle under nutrition up to 2020. The agreement, called Global Nutrition for Growth was signed during central London summit. The participants who signed a Global Nutrition for Growth Compact- Committed  their countries...

CROATIA, 28TH MEMBER OF EU

Croatia has become the 28th member of the European Union. Croatia is the first country to join the EU since 2007, when bulgaria and Romania came on board, and only the second of the seven ex-Yugoslav states after Slovenia which part of the big bang eastward enlargement in 2004. The path to join has been more exacting, with EU having learnt that once...

Carbon Emission Trade

An exchange of credits between nations designed to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. The carbon trade allows countries that have higher carbon emissions to purchase the right to release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from countries that have lower carbon emissions. The carbon trade originated with the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and is intended...

SYRIA JOINS OPCW CONVENTION

    Syria officially joined the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW), United Nations convention banning chemical weapons. This made the country the 190th state party to the OPCW. Only six states have yet to sign the international treaty. Statistics from OPCW= 190 nations, 98% of the global population, have joined...

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia. The bank admits the members of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and non-regional developed countries. From 31 members...

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC) is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992. The objective of the...

Green Climate Fund(GCF)

The purpose of the Green Climate Fund is to make a significant and ambitious contribution to the global efforts towards attaining the goals set by the international community to combat climate change.The Fund will contribute to the achievement of the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In the context...

Russia Successfully Launched Proton-M Rocket

Russia Successfully Launched Proton-M Russia on 12 November 2013 successfully launched the Proton-M rocket carrying a defense satellite, Raduga-1M from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It is important to note that Russia restarted the launch of Proton rockets in September 2013 after a small gap in order to check why a Proton rocket...

World Bank

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans[3] to developing countries for capital programs. The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger: From 1990 through 2004, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty fell from almost a third to less...