Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Climate & Environment

Reykjavik Arctic States Meeting

US Secretary of State Blinken and Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov will both attend the talks and are expected to meet on the sidelines.  

Published on: 19 May, 2021

2021 Global Report on Food Crises

The report shows that the number of people facing acute food insecurity increased in 2020 and is set to rise further in 2021. Conflict is ..

Published on: 5 May, 2021

Iraq’s environment

Every year millions of pilgrims visit Iraq’s holy sites. Most people use plastic bottles and disposable cutlery resulting in millions of pieces of plastic headed ..

Published on: 25 April, 2021

Global Earth Day

The European Union has pledged at least a 55 percent cut compared to 1990 levels, while the UK promised 68 percent.  Biden has pledged to ..

Published on: 22 April, 2021

Combating global warming

Oceans absorb nearly 93 percent of the carbon dioxide released by human activities since 1970.

Published on: 20 April, 2021

US/China/Climate

China’s special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, will meet with Kerry in Shanghai and the two will exchange views on COP 26.

Published on: 15 April, 2021

Fukushima water

Concerns remain among Japan’s fisheries industry and consumers as well as neighboring countries such as South Korea and China.

Published on: 13 April, 2021

Clean energy

Al Jazeera has discovered that in the case of NYC, reliance on fossil fuels is expected to increase in the coming year due to the ..

Published on: 12 April, 2021

Somalia bleak report

Save the Children says $150m is needed to provide food, health, education, water, and sanitation to almost 2m people through the next 6 months.

Published on: 12 April, 2021

UAE Climate Conference

The goal is to ‘develop… climate action priorities’ ahead of the Nov 2021 COP meeting in Glasgow.

Published on: 4 April, 2021

Endangered species

The number of African forest elephants fell by more than 86% over a period of 31 years, while the population of African savanna elephants decreased ..

Published on: 25 March, 2021

Australia floods

It came after the Warragamba Dam, which provides much of the drinking water for Sydney, spilled over Saturday afternoon – causing officials to warn the ..

Published on: 22 March, 2021