Six months into the war, 10,000 Palestinian women in Gaza have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving…
At least a dozen countries, including the U.S., have suspended funding to the UNRWA, the United Nations agency responsible for delivering…
At least a dozen countries, including the U.S., have suspended funding to the UNRWA, the United Nations agency responsible for…
As governments around the world consider new regulations that would require corporations to track their impacts on biodiversity, a new…
The world’s first conference on the abolition of torture drew more than 300 delegates representing over 70 countries and international…
Dec. 10 marks the anniversary of the 1948 signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United…
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations (UN) identified what it called a “shadow pandemic” of domestic…
Direct air capture of carbon dioxide faces political and technological challenges but ambitious targets have been set in fighting the…
How had we missed this until now? An undersea mountain as tall as three Eiffel Towers. DDT contamination spread across…
Slow efforts to decarbonise are blamed on low political will — but time is running out to transition, and a…
The world’s learners are not equipped to face the challenges of an unsustainable future. While education has long been heralded…
Mass atrocities are once again plaguing the people of Darfur, Sudan, with talk of a genocide taking place. Twenty years…
The UN claims to be almost entirely climate neutral, yet that claim is based on buying millions of carbon offset credits…
A powerful earthquake that hit close to the medieval city of Marrakech in Morocco on Sept. 8, 2023, has killed…
Owing to a crippling funding crisis, the United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to…
Condemning and strongly rejecting any advocacy and manifestation of religious hatred, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted…
Source: DW A record 110 million people have been displaced around the world as the conflict in Sudan contributed to…
Noise pollution is known to cause significant disturbance to marine wildlife, including migratory species protected under the Convention on the…
Delighted to have recorded an unprecedented harvest of 41 quintals (one quintal = 100 kilograms) of pearl millet towards the…
Source: IANS The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally-binding instrument on plastic pollution, including…
Source: PTI An estimated 13.4 million babies were born preterm in 2020, with 45 per cent of them being born…
Source: AP, PTI Taliban restrictions on Afghan women and girls may amount to femicide if they are not reversed, a…
Source: PTI The UN Security Council has unanimously condemned the decision by the Taliban to ban Afghan women from working…
Source: PTI The ongoing heavy fighting in Sudan is putting tens of thousands of pregnant women in danger, making it…
Source: PTI Female Afghan employees of the United Nations have been banned by the ruling Taliban from working in the…
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