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“How Dare You!” Greta Thunberg Rebukes World Leaders
“We will not let you get away with this,” the 16-year-old climate strike leader tells the UN Climate Action Summit.
Letter Exposes Trump’s Attempt to Form Anti-Abortion UN Coalition
This is hardly the first time the administration has worked to undermine international support for reproductive rights.
Trump to Snub Climate Summit for Religious Freedom Meeting at UN
The White House booked a room so Trump could attend a gathering in the same building as the UN climate summit.
We Cannot Afford to Gamble on Geoengineering to Achieve Net Zero
We cannot risk delaying climate action now in the hope that a technological fix will emerge.
We Could Eliminate Extreme Global Poverty If Multinationals Paid Their Taxes
The cost of global corporate tax avoidance is $500 billion and poor countries are bearing 40 percent of it.
The Media Have Missed a Crucial Message of the UN’s Biodiversity Report
If we want to halt the extinction crisis, we need to indigenize our systems and institutions.
Climate Crisis Disasters Now Occur Weekly, UN Warns
The Sunrise Movement declared: “This is an emergency. We need political leadership that acts like it.”
Iran Had the Legal Right to Shoot Down US Spy Drone
The United States has no lawful claim of self-defense to justify a military attack on Iran.
UN Special Rapporteur Calls for Julian Assange to Be Freed
The special rapporteur is warning that WikiLeaks founder Assange is suffering the effects of “psychological torture."
Child Migrants Around the World Are Being Denied Their Human Rights
The US is the only nation not to have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.