Non-Aligned Movement

Declaration of the Summit of Heads of State of the G77 and China

September 24, 2023 UNAC Editor Global Alliances, Global South

The summit held in Havana was attended by more than 1,300 participants from 116 countries and 12 organizations and agencies of the United Nations system. Thirty-three nations from Latin America and the Caribbean, 46 from Africa, 34 from Asia and three from Europe were represented. Thirty-one heads of state and government, 12 vice presidents, dozens of ministers from multiple portfolios[…]

Why Nonalignment Is an Urgent Imperative for the Global South

May 5, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Asia, Economics, Global Economics, Latin America, Multipolar World, Paths to Emancipation

by Nontobeko Hlela, distributed by Globetrotter, May 2, 2022 South Africa and other countries that have abstained from voting against Russia at the United Nations General Assembly in response to the war in Ukraine face intense international criticism. In South Africa, the domestic criticism has been extraordinarily shrill, and often clearly racialized. It is frequently assumed that abstention means that[…]

The World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire

August 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Featured, International Law

by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, published on Popular Resistance, August 11, 2019 “We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures.“ That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies[…]