Policy Report Jun 2 Suffering and Vigilance among Chinese Americans in New York City and California during the COVID-19 pandemic Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans, especially…
Under a push to develop nuclear energy, the U.S. is exploring sources for uranium to fuel them. An Indigenous tribe is worried that an uranium mine near the Grand Canyon…
The Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions “triple-COP” is a unique event. It brings together three distinct conventions that together protect human health and the environment by governing hazardous chemicals and…
The UN Secretary-General has condemned “in the strongest terms” a brutal attack on a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria at the weekend, which left at least 50 people dead and wounded dozens…
An “explosion of child deaths” is likely and imminent in the Horn of Africa unless the international community takes immediate action to prevent a new hunger disaster, UN humanitarians warned on…
The creator of a women-only rapid intervention team who leads riot control activities inside the Central African Republic’s biggest all male high-security prison, was named the winner of a prestigious…
The annual UN Climate Change Conference in the German city of Bonn began on Monday, designed to lay the groundwork for a successful COP27, due to take place in the Egyptian coastal…
Young people are “disproportionately viewed as the primary perpetrators of crime”, despite often being the most vulnerable, the UN General Assembly President told a high-level meeting on Monday, highlighting crime…
A fire and explosion in southeastern Bangladesh over the weekend which left more than 40 dead, has prompted the UN’s labour agency, ILO, to urge workplaces throughout the country to…
Filmmaker Steve Brand’s Kaddish is a documentary about growing up as a child of a Holocaust survivor; a film about the psychological ramifications of history. Laced with humor and tenderness, it is…