Increasingly frequent marine heat waves are hammering away at the world’s coral reefs, scientists say. For the past nine months, the world has repeatedly smashed heat records on land. But…
Life-saving food aid in Chad for hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn Sudan will grind to a halt in April without international funding, a United Nations agency warned Tuesday. The…
The U.N.’s preeminent body promoting equality for women and girls has opened its annual meeting with five male speakers in a row The U.N.’s preeminent body promoting equality for women…
The number of children globally who died before their fifth birthday dropped to a record low of 4.9 million in 2022, but that still represents one death every six seconds,…
Administrator Power delivers remarks at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. The speech “The End of Climate Shocks” highlights the increasing frequency of climate-related disasters and discusses what the world…
On March 8, The United Nations Fact Finding Committee released a 20-page report accusing the Islamic Republic of Iran of committing “crimes against humanity” during 2022’s Woman, Life, Freedom protests. The report,…
David Schaechter, the president of the Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation who himself survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, condemned Zone of Interest writer and director Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars acceptance speech in an open letter…
U.S. intelligence officials testified (Reuters) to lawmakers yesterday about the release of their annual threat assessment (Office of the Director of National Intelligence). The report said the United States faces an “increasingly fragile…
(Geneva, 12 March 2024) – Former Syrian Vice-President Rifaat al-Assadwill stand trial in Switzerland for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has just charged him with…
ALTO, Ga. (AP) — A woman incarcerated at a Georgia prison has filed a federal lawsuit alleging she was sexually assaulted by a correctional officer and had to undergo surgery…