Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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13 Jan, 2021

Climate & Environment

WMO Report

The report will link air quality, climate change and heatwaves, arguing that they should be monitored together, not separately.

6 September, 2023

Day 2 of the Africa Climate Summit

  The summit will among other things aim to produce a common plan for tackling climate change and propose a new international financing framework, which…

5 September, 2023

Day 1 of Africa Climate Summit

Africa’s environmental problems are well charted: water scarcity, biodiversity loss, drought etc. Along with much of the global south, it’s seeking money from the West…

4 September, 2023

Hurricane Idalia aftermath

The National Hurricane Center called it ‘extremely dangerous’, capable of leaving the area uninhabitable ‘for weeks or months’ – It is the first hurricane to…

31 August, 2023

Climate change and drought

Earlier in 2023, the Panama Canal’s authority began imposing restrictions, causing a backlog of vessels waiting to pass. To conserve water, canal authorities are limiting…

28 August, 2023

Algeria, Greece, US, and Canada are swept by severe heatwave

In Greece, devastating wildfires are continuing to sweep through Greece for a seventh consecutive day. Mass evacuations have been ordered on several Greek islands as tens…

25 July, 2023

South Korea devastating floods

Authorities said on Sunday that rescue workers had pulled seven bodies from vehicles trapped in a flooded underpass in central South Korea after days of…

17 July, 2023

Floods damaged crops in India’s Punjab

The Indian government has said it expects to produce 135.5 million tonnes of rice this year, more than what they produced last year, but the…

17 July, 2023

Heatwave is set to intensify

Parts of Italy could see highs of 48°C and high temperatures are expected to continue into next week as a second heatwave approaches. Death Valley…

16 July, 2023

Acropolis/Sun shade to alleviate heatwave

One day while filling up brothel-keeper Amina’s house with mounds of earth, the dreaded bawd. I was about seven years old when I was close…

13 July, 2023

Northwest India floods

In Punjab’s Dera Bassi rescue personnel used rubber rafts to rescue people stranded inside their homes.

11 July, 2023

Punjab floods

The majority of the deaths were in the eastern province of Punjab and were mainly due to electrocution and building collapses.

9 July, 2023