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Amira Odeh Quiñones is a hydrologist and Caribbean organiser for the 350.org climate campaign group…
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Amira Odeh Quiñones is a hydrologist and Caribbean organiser for the 350.org climate campaign group El Niño, likely to be one of the strongest in modern history, has arrived on Caribbean shores. Drought is slowly creeping up on our islands. But unlike the fiery wildfires ravaging parts of Europe, there’s no smoke signalling the damage […]
About a quarter of the countries signed up to the Paris Agreement are still breaching its rules by failing to submit a new national climate plan, 18 months after the February 2025 deadline. Forty-five nations had not submitted a plan known as a nationally determined contribution (NDC), according to the Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance […]
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Human Rights Groups Call for Systemic Transformation to Prevent History Repeating Itself FIFA’s current crisis spotlights the need for governance reforms and transparent systems to protect human rights, the Sport & Rights Alliance said today. Though Gianni Infantino’s FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal has been rightly withdrawn, the growing calls for further measures should also […]
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Amira Odeh Quiñones is a hydrologist and Caribbean organiser for the 350.org climate campaign group El Niño, likely to be one of the strongest in modern history, has arrived on…
About a quarter of the countries signed up to the Paris Agreement are still breaching its rules by failing to submit a new national climate plan, 18 months after the…
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Human Rights Groups Call for Systemic Transformation to Prevent History Repeating Itself FIFA’s current crisis spotlights the need for governance reforms and transparent systems to protect human rights, the Sport…
An Israeli attack that killed Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil and seriously wounded camerawoman Zeinab Faraj in south Lebanon on 22 April 2026 was a direct attack on civilians which should…
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The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control pledged to deploy a vaccine for a previous Ebola strain in the current DRC outbreak, with test cases indicating a potentially…
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