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The UN Will Debate ‘Systemic Racism’ and ‘Police Brutality’ in the U.S.
The scheduled debate follows a request by Burkina Faso on behalf of 54 African countries.
The United Nations Coronavirus Social Distancing App Doesn’t Even Work
On Wednesday the UN announced its app 1point5 to help people social distance. But it doesn’t perform the most basic of tasks.
Trump Is Scapegoating the WHO — But Failed to Confirm a U.S. Representative for 3 Years
Trump and the Senate GOP ignored the World Health Organization. Then came the new coronavirus pandemic.
Trump Is Halting Funding to the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic
He blamed the WHO for its slow response to the coronavirus pandemic and for pushing China's "misinformation about the virus."
Trump Accused the World Health Organization of Helping China Cover Up Coronavirus
Then he threatened to cut off funding. “They’re always on the side of China. And we fund it. So I want to look into it,” Trump said.
South Sudan Just Ended Its Civil War — for Now
The news is a glimmer of hope for the traumatized country, but ethnic tension is just under the surface in the nation's second largest city.
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UN Declares That Climate Change Refugees Can’t Be Sent Back to Their Home Countries
Considering tens of millions of people in poorer countries could be displaced by climate change in just a few decades, this is a landmark decision.
Teen Activists Couldn't Ignore the 'Morbid Symbols' All Over the UN's Climate Conference
Security formed a "human chain" to kick activists out, and Qatar was handing out dates individually wrapped in plastic.
The 2010s Killed Off the Polite Climate Change Conversation
The decade that began with the defeat of a relatively moderate climate bill is ending amid calls for capitalism to be dismantled.
This Global Map Shows You How Nature Benefits You Directly
The map displays how people all over the world receive benefits from the environment, and who is most likely to lose them due to land use issues and the climate crisis.
What I Saw Inside the Messy, Desperate Chaos of the UN Climate Summit
Under rapidly approaching deadlines to keep global warming to a tolerable level, too many world leaders seem unable or unwilling to act.
Tiny Island Nations Are Carbon-Shaming Everyone at the UN
A total of 15 countries, including several low-lying island nations, committed to zero-out their carbon emissions by 2050
