‘Nowhere to Run’: UN Report Says Global Warming Nears Limits
Written by SETH BORENSTEIN Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will...
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Residents: Myanmar Leaders Use Pandemic as Political Weapon
Written by DAVID RISING With coronavirus deaths rising in Myanmar, allegations are growing from residents and human rights activists that the military government, which seized control in February, is using the pandemic to...
Read MoreGangs Complicate Haiti Effort To Recover From Assassination
Written by DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Gangs in Haiti have long been financed by powerful politicians and their allies — and many Haitians fear those backers may be losing control of the increasingly powerful armed groups who...
Read MoreU.N. Rights Chief: Reparations Needed for People Facing Racism
Written by JAMEY KEATEN The U.N. human rights chief, in a landmark report launched after the killing of George Floyd in the United States, is urging countries worldwide to do more to help end discrimination, violence and...
Read MoreUN: Millions Driven From Homes in 2020 Despite COVID Crisis
Written by JAMEY KEATEN and EDITH M. LEDERER War, violence, persecution, human rights violations and other factors caused nearly 3 million people to flee their homes last year, even though the COVID-19 crisis restricted movement...
Read MoreUN Rights Chief: Israeli Strikes in Gaza May Be War Crimes
Written by JAMEY KEATEN The U.N. rights chief said Thursday that Israeli forces may have committed war crimes in the 11-day war with the militant group Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip. Michelle Bachelet also called on Israel to...
Read MoreBelarus’ Isolation Deepens as Flights Avoid Its Airspace
Written by VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Belarus’ isolation deepened Tuesday as commercial planes avoided its airspace, the European Union worked up new sanctions, and a senior U.N. official said he was concerned for the welfare of an...
Read More‘This Is Hell’: UN Food Aid Chief Visits Yemen, Fears Famine
Written by MAGGIE HYDE The head of the U.N. food agency warned after a visit to Yemen that his underfunded organization may be forced seek hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations in a desperate bid to stave off...
Read MoreJob Losses From Virus 4 Times as Bad as ’09 Financial Crisis
Four times as many jobs were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic as during the worst part of the global financial crisis in 2009, a U.N. report said Monday. The International Labor Organization estimated that the...
Read MoreWong Questioned, U.S. Lawyer Released in Hong Kong Crackdown
Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested on a new charge under the national security law on Thursday while an American rights lawyer who was detained in a sweeping crackdown was granted bail. Friends and...
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