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Ex-Irish President Mary Robinson: US Will Become Rogue Nation If Trump Pulls Out of Climate Deal
Robinson served as president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997.
As US Elects Global Warming Denier, Thousands March in Marrakech Calling for Climate Justice
Some of the thousands who marched Sunday for climate justice speak out.
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Uncovered: Fossil Fuel Industry Has Back-Door Access to UN Climate Talks
The connections uncovered are dizzying in number and represent a conflict of interest in the climate policymaking space.
The Human Right to Water at Standing Rock
Attacks on the Water Protectors at Standing Rock violate their internationally recognized right to safe water.
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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.