Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at an 800,000-year…
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Elizabeth Felix stands in the middle of Maiduguri’s main market, taking in the bustling scene: traders setting up stalls, customers haggling over prices, the bright colors…
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency on Saturday urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ban on girls’ education to save the future of millions who have been deprived…
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest…
About Treaty Bodies On December 21, 1965, through Resolution 2106 (XX) the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), marking a pivotal…
WEDZA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Anna Bhobho, a 31-year-old housewife from rural Zimbabwe, was once a silent observer in her home, excluded from financial and family decision-making in the deeply patriarchal society.…
The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to furthering criminal justice efforts through investigations, in order to prevent the loss and destruction of…
STANSTEAD, Quebec (AP) — For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and…
In an increasingly urbanized world, the detrimental health effects of noise pollution are becoming a pressing public health concern. Research indicates that chronic exposure to noise can lead to serious…
Rabbi Arié Engelberg was on his way back from synagogue when he was reportedly kicked, punched, and bitten on the shoulder. The rabbi of Orléans, France, was violently attacked in front…