Israel-Egypt peace treaty has stood the test of time over 45 years: expert explains its significance: The peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, signed in 1979 to end hostilities and normalise relations between them, turns 45 on 26 March. The Conversation Africa asked Ofir Winter, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies, …
Russia’s decision to ditch cold war arms limitation treaty raises tensions with Nato: Russia has pulled out of an important cold war-era treaty which limited categories of conventional military equipment that Nato and the then-Warsaw Pact could deploy. The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was intended to use the warming of …
New treaty to protect the world’s oceans may hurt vulnerable African fisheries: Following two decades of fierce negotiations, over 60 countries recently signed a UN Ocean Treaty to conserve biodiversity on the high seas. The “high seas” are all ocean areas which aren’t under a specific country’s direct ownership or regulation. They make up two-thirds …
Africa’s groundbreaking women’s rights treaty turns 20 – the hits and misses of the Maputo protocol: There's been improvements in sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Lucian Coman/Shutterstock 2023 marks two decades since the adoption of the Maputo Protocol. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in …
The high seas are supposed to belong to everyone – a new UN treaty aims to make it law: Kisova Elena/Shutterstock It may come as a surprise to fellow land-dwellers, but the ocean actually accounts for most of the habitable space on our planet. Yet a big chunk of it has been left largely unmanaged. …
Russia pulls out of New Start nuclear treaty – we’ve already seen how such agreements have limited aggression against Ukraine: Vladimir Putin’s decision to pull out of the New Start nuclear weapons treaty with the United States will have predictable responses. Stocks in defence corporations will rise at the prospect of new markets for nuclear …
Why do so many Turkish people believe ‘secret clauses’ in the 1923 Lausanne treaty will be unveiled this year?: Commonly regarded as the “birth certificate” of modern Turkey, the 1923 treaty of Lausanne was the last of the peace settlements signed at the end of the first world war. This year’s centenary has already provoked …
Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction: A major biodiversity conference, recently concluded in Montreal, Canada, was billed as the event that will decide the “fate of the entire living world”. All well then that the meeting closed with what has been hailed as a “historic” breakthrough: a deal …
The Energy Charter Treaty lets fossil fuel firms sue governments – but its future is now in question: European governments are finally starting to abandon a treaty that could stop them taking much-needed climate action and that protects the interests of fossil fuel companies and investors. The energy charter treaty (ECT), which has been signed …
Ukraine war: how Gorbachev’s 1987 INF missile treaty has limited the arsenal available to Putin: Thanks to the final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died aged 91, a disarmament treaty has denied Vladimir Putin thousands more missiles which he could have ordered to be used against Ukraine. Russian forces attacking Ukraine have not been …
Energy charter treaty makes climate action nearly illegal in 52 countries – so how can countries leave it?: ZoranOrcik/Shutterstock Five young people whose resolve was hardened by floods and wildfires recently took their governments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Their claim concerns each country’s membership of an obscure treaty they argue makes …
Four reasons to be hopeful about the planned global plastics treaty: Inside Creative House/Shutterstock A landmark resolution endorsed by 175 states has kickstarted negotiations of a world-first treaty for ending plastic pollution, due to be finalised before the end of 2024. The basis for such an agreement was made possible by growing public support for …
Whale migrations: how new UN treaty aims to protect species on the high seas: Humpback whales (_Megaptera novaeangliae_) frolicking at the ocean surface. Tony Wu/WWF, Author provided A humpback whale we tagged while it was feeding off the Western Antarctic Peninsula made a nearly 19,000 km-round trip in 265 days, travelling north from Antarctica to …
Plastic waste treaty: expert Q&A on the promise of a global agreement to reduce pollution: Yudhistirama/Shutterstock The flow of plastic entering the ocean is expected to double by 2040. To prevent this tsunami of difficult-to-decompose waste, experts have proposed a global treaty which could oblige all nations to reduce how much plastic they produce and …
Ukraine invasion: why eight Nato members triggered article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty: In the 73 years since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) was founded, member nations have activated article 4 of its founding treaty only half a dozen times. The latest instance was on February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine. Eight …
South Africa in the news: South Africa’s no-show at global plastic treaty meeting deeply disappointing: As the world moves away from linear to circular economy models (https://bit.ly/3mXVEvh), South Africa still seems to be pinning hopes of its economic revival on a section of the plastic industry …: “South Africa” – BingNews Antisemitism and anti-Israel bias: …
South Africa in the news: Lesotho seals new treaty with Mauritius, hoping to curb tax dodging: Officials in Lesotho had joined a chorus of African authorities complaining that agreements with tax haven Mauritius were bleeding their governments of much-needed tax revenue.: “South Africa” – BingNews Science in Costa Rica scans coronavirus for mutations and variants …
South Africa in the news: The Peace Treaty that led to 75 million deaths, By Owei Lakemfa: The Versailles Peace Treaty between Germany and its neighbours came at a cost of 75 million lives. But has humanity learnt lessons from it?: “South Africa” – BingNews Memorial Held For Zambia’s President Kenneth Kaunda: Spread This NewsBBC …