President Lula’s first pro-environment acts protect Indigenous people and the Amazon
Effective Jan. 2, Brazil’s President Lula issued six decrees revoking or altering anti-environment-and-Indigenous measures from his...
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RECENT NEWS ON RUSSIAN GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE
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Creating a Shared Language of Genocide Prevention Across the Globe
BRIEFER: Climate Change as a “Threat Multiplier”: History, Uses and Future of the Concept
"Threat multiplier” has become a widely used term by scholars and practitioners to describe climate change implications for security in...
Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence
From Kenya to India and the Philippines, more frequent and intense extreme weather events have led to escalating threats against women...
The year in humanitarian news
A timeline of significant events in 2022. From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (and the global impacts) to Haiti’s spiralling gang violence...
El planeta en estado de alarma suelos degradados, destrucción de los bosques, sequías y desnutrición
El agravamiento de la inseguridad alimentaria, la degradación de los suelos y la escasez de agua en distintas zonas del planeta son...
A famine that’s not a famine: ‘Children are waiting to die’
Agencies say Somalia is ‘on the brink of famine’, but evidence suggests the extent of mass starvation is much worse Abdirahman’s mother...
Horn of Africa faces most severe drought in more than two generations – UNICEF
The number of children suffering from dire drought conditions across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more than doubled in five months,...
Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’
In the Horn of Africa, a climate change-induced drought is exposing cracks in the global food system and pushing humanitarian aid to a...
Iran's Water Crisis Will Make It Harder for the Regime to Regain Control
Iran’s government has spent this week trying to quell the protests that have rocked the country for the last three months. Officials put...
‘Shameful’ UN silencing Indigenous voices, say banned Cop27 activists
Campaigners who interrupted US president’s speech had passes revoked after they put ‘lives in danger’ The four activists gave a war cry...
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