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United Nations
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New UN Report Shows Just How Awful Globalization and Informal Employment Are for Workers
Currently on the UN agenda: a legally-binding human rights agreement for corporations and businesses.
Why Nature and Wildlife Need Their Own Seats at the UN
We need new international institutions, laws and treaties that give a voice to ecosystems and nonhuman life.
Seeds of Corporate Power vs. Farmers’ Rights
We need to start tilting the playing field back in favor of farmers and the environment.
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Trump Should Stop Calling Terrorism a Cancer, and So Should Everybody Else
Calling terrorism a cancer takes it out of the context of the politics, history and power systems that form it.
Dahr Jamail | Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate but US Still Toys With Skepticism
Earth is already warmer than it has been in 120,000 years but in the US, climate skeptics are still taken seriously.
Forty-Three Disappeared Students, Two Years of Impunity
New York City activists express outrage over two years of impunity in the case of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa.
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Trump, Clinton and the Illusion of Everlasting US Hegemony
Both Trump and Clinton believe US hegemony should be an everlasting reality. We need to change the conversation.
Did President Obama Host a Summit on Migrants While Ignoring a Refugee Crisis in the US’s Own Backyard?
The UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants has produced a nonbinding declaration on coordinating a humane response to the migration crisis.
Who Will Speak for Indigenous Peoples at the UN General Assembly?
As diplomats arrive in New York, representatives for the more than 400 million indigenous peoples globally will not be among them.
UN Summit Won’t Resolve Refugee Resettlement Impasse
The UN's richer member states are missing a crucial opportunity to tackle xenophobia and racism by actually resettling refugees within their own borders.