Topline Decades of global progress on women’s rights are “vanishing before our eyes,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned in an emotional speech at a U.N. Security Council meeting...
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Greenland Ice Sheet Warmest In At Least 1,000 Years As Scientists Warn Melting Ice Will Accelerate Sea-Level Rise
Topline Recent temperatures in Greenland’s ice sheet—one of the primary culprits behind rising seas—were the warmest they’ve been in at least 1,000 years, according to a new report, as scientists warn...
Hong Kong Court Sentences Jimmy Lai On The U.N. Human Rights Day
December 10 marks the Human Rights Day, a day designed by the United Nations to commemorate the U.N. General Assembly adopting, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the UDHR). The UDHR ...
What Targeting Of Children Has To Do With Genocidal Atrocities?
December 9 marks the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime. It is a day established by the U.N. General Assembly to...
The U.S. Will Cut Emissions In An Effort To Avoid ‘Climate Hell,’ Biden Says
Topline President Joe Biden addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference Friday and said the U.S. will work to avoid a “climate hell” following a UN report indicating greenhouse gasses will ...
Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Another $473 Million For Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theories
Topline A Connecticut judge on Thursday ordered Alex Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, to pay $473 million in punitive damages for spreading conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementa...
Protecting Journalists Is Protecting Freedom Of Expression For All
In October 2022, the European Parliament published its commissioned study concerning safety of journalists and media freedom globally which found the progressive erosion of media freedom around the wo...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Will Rise 10% When They Urgently Need To Drop, U.N. Warns
Topline Global temperatures will increase by as much as 2.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century under current conditions, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday, as scientists warn contin...
A Debate On The Situation In Xinjiang Blocked At The U.N. Human Rights Council
On October 6, 2022, the U.N. Human Rights Council, consisting of 47 member states, rejected a draft decision to accommodate a debate on the situation in Xinjiang, China. The failed draft decision was ...
U.N. Calls On Fed, Other Central Banks to Halt Interest-Rate Increases
The Federal Reserve and other central banks risk pushing the global economy into recession followed by prolonged stagnation if they keep raising interest rates, a United Nations agency said Monday. Th...
International Community Is Failing The Uyghurs But A Change May Be Ahead
In 2021, several reports produced by experts found that the Uyghurs are subjected to genocide in Xinjiang, China. This finding was followed by several determinations of the atrocities as genocide by P...
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addresses U.N. General Assembly
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the Kharkiv region for the first time since Russia started the attacks against his country on February 24, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine on May 29, 2022.(P...
Uyghurs May Be Subjected To Crimes Against Humanity In Xinjiang -United Nations’ Report Finds
On August 31, 2022, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights announced that it would publish its report on China after all, despite protests from the Chinese representation to the Uni...
We Must Condemn Abuse Of Religion Or Belief As Tool Of Discrimination And Violence
On August 22, the U.N. marks the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. It is a day designated by the U.N. for member states to reflect on their e...
Prince Harry Tells U.N. It’s Been A ‘Painful Year’ For The World — Including The ‘Rolling Back Of Constitutional Rights’ In The U.S.
Topline Prince Harry delivered an impassioned speech to the United Nations Monday in which he called on world leaders to “be brave” in the face of climate change, a global pandemic and the...
Most Ukrainian Refugees Want To Return Home But Are Waiting The War Out, U.N. Study Finds
Topline Most refugees from Ukraine hope to return home eventually but are waiting until fighting subsides, according to a new report from the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) published Wednesday...
World Population Will Reach 8 Billion By November, U.N. Says
Topline The world population will surpass eight billion people on November 15, according to projections from a United Nations report released Monday – though population growth is at its lowest level i...
U.N. Visit To China Fails Victims And Aids State Propaganda
The U.N. visit to China failed victims who have been silenced yet again. Michelle Bachelet’s trip to China marks the first time a U.N. human rights commissioner has had access to China since 2005. How...
United Nations On A Visit To Xinjiang, China
In May 2022, United Nations, including Michelle Bachelet, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, are to visit Xinjiang, China, to investigate the allegations of serious human rights violations. This...
Tigray Hospital In Urgent Need Of Assistance With Food And Medical Supplies
The conflict in Ethiopia continues to take new victims. Shortly after it began on November 4, 2020, evidence of mass killings of several hundred people in the western Tigray town of Mai Kadra, started...
North Korea Appears To Launch Another Ballistic Missile
Topline North Korea launched a ballistic missile into the sea Tuesday morning following its first launch since October last week, Japanese and South Korean officials said, drawing attention from the U...
People Of Myanmar Face Unprecedented Crisis In 2022, The U.N. Warns
The U.N. is sounding the alarm on the situation in Myanmar. According to a recent U.N. report, the people of Myanmar are facing an unprecedented crisis in 2022: political, socioeconomic, human rights ...