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 ...
Tag: UN
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 ...
The UK has tried to derail UN plans for a fair tax system. So, 22 NGOs have got involved.
22 UK NGOs have sent a letter to the prime minister calling on the UK government to reconsider its position ...
As Israel bans UN Palestine rapporteur, it’s accused of causing “unprecedented” levels of “near famine-like conditions” in Gaza
Israel has caused the population of the Gaza Strip to suffer "unprecedented" levels of "near famine-like conditions", the UN's agriculture ...
The UN just declared it’s highest-level warning of a famine in Gaza – branding the situation ‘catastrophic’
Action Against Hunger is gravely concerned by the declaration made in a new UN-led report, classifying hunger levels in areas ...
A COP28 flop: summit’s most ambitious option would still have failed to deliver climate justice
Another year, another failed climate summit. Running into overtime - the United Nations Conference of Parties 28 (COP28) finally came ...
Offset giant ditches flagship project as countries gear up for carbon markets at COP28
The world’s leading seller of carbon offsets has ditched its flagship project. On Friday October 27, carbon offset company South ...
Companies and countries fail to exit carbon-intensive and climate-wrecking coal projects
Since the Paris Agreement, companies have expanded coal plant capacity by an amount greater than the entire operating coal fleets ...
Politicians marked World Food Day – but ignored Israel starving Palestinians as they spoke
On Monday 16 October, the United Nations (UN) Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) hosted its annual 'World Food Day' event. ...
Scientists launch climate crisis ‘countdown clock’ report series to take governments to task
Top scientists have launched a yearly report series to plug knowledge gaps ahead of COP28 crunch climate talks in the ...
COP28 host announces fossil fuel industry emissions pledge, while scaling up carbon capture technology
As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) COP28 host has tried to burnish its green image, its state fossil fuel company ...
Tory Illegal Migration Act will ramp up asylum hellscape in the UK, according to new research
Braverman’s recent rhetoric around the Refugee Convention has been abhorrent - and the Conservative policies it underpins are about to ...
‘A cemetery for children and their future’: number of refugees thought dead in Mediterranean triples
The number of Europe-bound refugees who died or went missing in the Mediterranean this summer has tripled since last year, ...
Green groups call out new nature disclosure framework as another exercise in corporate greenwashing
A coalition of rights groups and environmental non-profits named the Forests & Finance Coalition have called out the “corporate greenwashing” ...
Sunak proves why the UN was right to snub the UK PM for its Climate Ambition Summit
On 20 September, world leaders met in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit. In a novel move before ...
An anthropologist predicted the current failings of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – spoiler, it’s all capitalism
In part one of this two-part article, we took a look at the UN's latest Sustainable Development Goals report, and ...
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