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A UN Debate About Ukraine Somehow Became an Argument About Stolen Gorillas
A DR Congo representative accused Rwanda of stealing mountain gorillas and chimpanzees from the country’s forest in a wild tangent.
‘A Major Vindication’: UN Says China Committed Serious Rights Violations in Xinjiang
“We were forced to sing patriotic song after patriotic song every day, as loud as possible and until it hurts, until our faces become red and our veins appeared on our face.”
Uyghurs Say the United Nations Is Failing Them
China’s growing clout in the United Nations is undermining the credibility of the international body, experts say.
The UN Is Finally, Maybe, Doing Something About Plastic Pollution
About 10 million tons of plastic waste are dumped into our oceans every year—the equivalent of a garbage truck of plastic every minute. A new UN treaty is trying to fight that.
As Russia Attacked Ukraine, Their Ambassadors Lashed Each Other in a UN Meeting
“There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell, ambassador.”
Impressive! Big Oil Sent More People to World Climate Summit Than Any Country
COP26 is overflowing with more than 500 oil and gas executives from companies like Shell and BP.
The Start of COP26 Has Been a Hot Mess
Queues and train cancellations prevented hundreds from accessing talks at the start of the UN's two-week climate change summit.
Prisons and Jails Still Use the ‘Devil’s Chair.’ It’s Been Used for Torture.
Several reports have recently surfaced of people being mistreated using restraint chairs—even resulting in death, in extreme circumstances.
Trudeau Calls for the Catholic Church to Take Responsibility for Deaths of Indigenous Children
The prime minister is asking the Church to “step up” as UN human rights experts and Canadian lawyers call for a criminal investigation into both Canada and the Catholic Church after 215 Indigenous children were found buried under a residential school.
‘Reprehensible’: United Nations Experts Condemn UK’s Race Report
“In 2021, it is stunning to read a report on race and ethnicity that repackages racist tropes and stereotypes into fact,” a UN panel said.
‘Our Multilateralism Has No Teeth’: Why It’s Incredibly Difficult for the UN to Make Real Change
From the war on Syria to climate change, UN Secretary General António Guterres sat down with VICE News to talk about the world’s most pressing crises.
UN Peacekeeper Ordered to Pay Child Support for Baby He Abandoned
A Haitian court ordered a former UN peacekeeper to pay child support for a baby he fathered in 2011, one of the hundreds of children left behind in destitute conditions.