Tag: United Nations

The United Nations helps design a deal to ship foodstuffs blocked in Ukraine ports.

Just one bomb releases a slew of toxic heavy metals into Ukraine’s soil and groundwater. Now multiply this by thousands.

The recent overturning of Roe v. Wade is part of a pattern of American exceptionalism that harms people in both the U.S. and the rest of the world.

It’s time to rethink our broken and unfair family planning systems.

Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.

Let's be honest, Russia isn't the only or the worst war criminal.

Despite the pro-climate rhetoric of the insurance industry—and warnings by the world’s climate scientists calling for an end to fossil fuel exploration—leading...

This problem of rogue actors has long bedeviled the United Nations. But the rise of right-wing populists who insist on their sovereign right to do whatever they please poses an additional challenge to the international community.

While Indigenous communities will be able to attend the U.N. conference as observers, they are not recognized as parties to the biodiversity talks and cannot vote on the outcome.

They have so far continued to make choices that push them further away from targets they agreed upon five years ago to protect the climate and their citizens.