Climate crisis-driven disasters are disproportionately decimating Asia – affecting millions
Climate crisis-driven disasters are disproportionately decimating Asia. These are the findings of a new UN report on weather-related disasters in ...
Tag: UN
Europe’s bleak future: blistering heatwaves and disastrous droughts put human life at risk
The threat from climate crisis-driven extreme weather is ramping up in Europe. A new report has warned about the risks ...
UN accuses Israel of ‘purposefully breaking’ medical equipment in Gaza – including pregnancy kit
The UN decried on Friday 19 April Israel's intentional destruction of complex and hard-to-obtain medical equipment in Gaza's beleaguered hospitals ...
UNESCO World Heritage Day is a celebration of violent colonial conservation against Indigenous people
Thursday 18 of April marks the annual United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Day. This year ...
ANOTHER world-leading corporate ‘sustainability’ body exposed over blatant greenwashing for big polluters
A corporate greenwashing initiative has been accused of, unsurprisingly - greenwashing - only this time, by its own staff. SBTi ...
What was it like being at the UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled People? F*cking frustrating.
It’s been two weeks since the UK government was hauled over the coals by the UN Committee on the Rights ...
Israel ignores UN order, continuing genocide on Gaza as UK minister says resolution is binding
UK Foreign Office minister Tariq Ahmad has said it is the government's position that a UN Security Council resolution for ...
Humans waste over one BILLION meals a day. How can this even be justified?
Households across all continents wasted over one billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were affected by ...
The DWP is already LAUGHING at the UNCRPD – continuing with one of its most toxic plans yet
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is now planning to snoop on the bank accounts of chronically ill, disabled, ...
UN just slammed the Tories for the SECOND time in a WEEK over human rights breaches
The International Labour Organization (ILO) – the UN workers’ rights watchdog – has sounded the alarm over the UK government's ...
BBC just shamed itself again, this time over the UNCRPD. So, here’s what disabled people have to say.
You may have missed it, but earlier this week the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) ...
The Tories just SHAMED themselves in front of the UN – as it accused them of causing disabled people’s DEATHS
The Tory government was hauled in front of the UN on Monday 18 March. It was for it to give ...
An actual famine in Gaza is just WEEKS away, warns a UN-backed agency, with 1.1 million people already starving
Famine is projected to occur anytime between now and May in northern Gaza, thanks to Israel's ongoing genocide. That's according ...
Greenpeace calls for bold high seas ocean protection outside biodiverse Galapagos marine reserve
On Monday 12 March, Greenpeace called for new marine protections for the ocean surrounding the Galapagos - a vital biodiversity ...
Israel confirms no one is safe, torturing and murdering UN staff
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has reported that Israel tortured its staff. It also ...
The Tory government is being hauled to the UN over human rights violations here in the UK
The UN is once again hauling the Conservative-led UK government in front of it, over at-home violations of chronically ill ...
Rural women are bearing the socioeconomic brunt of the patriarchy-led climate crisis
On Tuesday 5 March, the United Nations' (UN) food and farming agency published a report highlighting the gendered impacts of ...
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