In March 2022, at the resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2), a historic resolution was adopted to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, ...

Other officials attending the meeting included: the Consul-General of Angola in Macao, Mr Eduardo Velasco Galiano; Deputy Consul of Angola in Macao, Ms Teresa João Alvaro dos Santos Tiago; and advisor ...

Bolivia's highest court has authorized the extradition of former anti-narcotics chief Maximiliano Dávila to the United States ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s highest court on Wednesday approved the extradition to the United States of a former anti-narcotics chief on charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the ...

(Relevance: In 2022, UPSC asked a question on the United Nations Convention on the Law of Sea (UNCLOS). The High Seas Treaty will work as an implementation agreement under the UNCLOS. In this regard, ...

A First Nation in southern Alberta is suing the federal government for $1 billion, the latest in a series of lawsuits which argue that annual payments promised in treaties should have been ...

Plastic waste pollutes our oceans, food, even our bodies. This week, 175 countries are trying to create a treaty to reduce that waste. Nations such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, who produce fossil ...

It was the radical left-wing party, La France Insoumise (LFI), that broke ranks by voting against the declaration, arguing that the government opposes the treaty only "as it stands." "There is no ...

Another says the “apparent concession” shows how “unworkable” his Treaty Principles Bill is. Seymour’s acknowledgment came on TVNZ’s Q+A show, where host Jack Tame asked, under his ...

Busan, South Korea — As the global plastics treaty talks race ahead in an attempt to finalize an agreement, the debate around how much any deal should limit both chemicals used in plastics and ...

The most formal articulation of the deal so far is a draft trilateral treaty that was tabled in the Australian parliament in August. This treaty is designed to provide the legal framework for the ...