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Rebuilding Neighborhoods and Mitigating Trauma After Israel’s Attacks on Gaza
As human rights workers, doctors and international aid organizations begin to figure out how to rebuild Gaza after Israel's 51 days of attacks this past summer, deep-seated trauma - …
Corporations Are Not Going to Save Us From Climate Disruption
The Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture, SEFA and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative are among many public-private partnerships.
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Pledges Can Work, But It Will Take International Law to Fight Climate Change
The world must find a way of having a climate treaty without US ratification.
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Latin America at a Climate Crossroads
World leaders gathered at the Climate Change Summit during the United Nations General Assembly September 23 will have a crucial opportunity to mobilize political will and advance solutions to …
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Indigenous Peoples Seek Presence in Post-2015 Development Agenda
Indigenous people have lived in a sustainable way for centuries and passed their knowledge from generation to generation, feeding their people without damaging the natural environment.
UN Votes for Process to Enact Bankruptcy Treaty and Stop Vulture Funds
United States and ten other countries vote against super majority.
ISIS War Needs to Be Debated in Congress and the UN Security Council
It is not surprising that President Obama has been able to send 1,200 soldiers back to Iraq.
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Climate Alarms Ringing, UN Fails to Act
There is no question that the climate crisis is here and is accelerating at a faster pace than predicted.
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Better Off Dead: Black Women Speak to the United Nations CERD Committee
With each of our dead, we mourn the loss of a piece of ourselves and with each of our raped we mourn the loss of a piece of our …
US Slammed for Failure to Fulfill Legal Obligation to Eliminate All Forms of Race Discrimination
A UN Committee has published a scathing denunciation of US failures to honor its treaty commitments to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.