Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:43:24 +0000
The annual UN climate conference, COP28, is slated to take place from November 30–December 12 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 22:00:08 +0000
The COP 15 biodiversity conference is under way in Montreal, where scientists are saying this may be humanity’s last best hope for survival.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:00:48 +0000
In Part 1, I gave readers some very quick historical background on how the situation in Xinjiang came to be, and what the UN Human Rights office found in its investigation into the human rights violations. Now that readers have some familiarity of what exactly we’re dealing with, it’s time to explore how this affects […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:00:44 +0000
Since 2017, there have been many allegations of human rights abuses in what China calls the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, known by dissidents as East Turkestan. This disagreement over the region’s name stems from a long history of on-and-off Chinese involvement and control of the region. For the past two millennia, the area has seen […]
Credit to Author: Jamie Leventhal| Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 13:46:49 GMT
About 10 million tons of plastic waste are dumped into our oceans every year—the equivalent of a garbage truck of plastic every minute. A new UN treaty is trying to fight that.
Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:08:15 +0000
The latest IPCC 6 report is out. It isn’t good news.
Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:53:07 +0000
It’s the worst locust infestation Kenya has seen in 70 years.
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Credit to Author: Alex Lubben| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:52:18 +0000
Security formed a “human chain” to kick activists out, and Qatar was handing out dates, individually wrapped in plastic.
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Credit to Author: Daniel Newhauser| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:34:47 +0000
Entitled “Laughed At,” the ad used video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mocking Trump at a NATO summit in London earlier this week.
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Credit to Author: Manvir Singh| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:08:11 +0000
An international group of advocates are urging the U.N. to do something about the ostracization and violence.
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