What we do Climate change and displacement Refugees, internally displaced and stateless people are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. UNHCR is working to protect them and strengthen their…

Adults who are incarcerated have nearly nine times the risk of dying by suicide within a year of their release than those who have never been in jail, according to…

By the spring of 2023, Robert Abala Okello, head teacher at the Panykworo Primary School in Gulu District, Uganda, had become deeply frustrated by the abysmal state of girls’ toilets…

Planet Earth is getting rocked by the biggest solar storm in decades – and the potential effects have those people in charge of power grids, communications systems and satellites on…

By Dan Drollette Jr | May 7, 2024 Food systems—how we grow, transport, prepare, and dispose of the food we eat—are responsible for roughly one-third of all global greenhouse gas…

Eighty years ago, my grandparents, four of my aunts, and two of my uncles were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau. They were among the nearly 440,000 deported from Hungary’s provinces, the last…

[by Meg Perkins] Speaker Billy Walker  CEO Yaegi Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation Registered Native Body Corporation Indigenous leader. Image supplied First Nations children are being incarcerated at ever-increasing rates. Recent…

NEW YORK —  On April 26, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) once again called on Canada and the US to decommission Line 5. In its report, the UNPFII…

Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible At first glance, the world economy looks reassuringly resilient. America has boomed even as its trade war with China has escalated. Germany has withstood…

According to German researcher Markus Wettstein, PhD, the perception of when old age begins is a subjective matter that varies depending on individual experiences and societal influences. Wettstein and his…