The UN announced on Monday that addressing air pollution and climate change concurrently can save lives, reduce global warming, and generate around $15 in economic benefit for every dollar invested, based on a report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Climate and Clear Air Coalition (CCAC). The CCAC’s assessment indicated that coordinated efforts to [...]

A group of UN experts called on Honduras Friday to immediately halt evictions of peasant, Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities taking place under Decree No. 107-2026, also known as the Law for the Strengthening and Protection of the Agro-Industrial Sector, Energy Projects, Tourism, Livestock and Small Agricultural Producers. The experts wrote: “We cannot stand by and [...]

Angolans who fled prolonged drought into Namibia face arrest, detention, denial of health care, and deportation because Namibian law gives them no route to legal status, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday. The report documents the consequences of recurrent droughts in Angola and the impacts of drought-induced displacement to Namibia on Angolan women and [...]

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Thursday expressed concern about the rise in violence and racist hate crimes targeting migrants in South Africa, urging authorities to implement urgent measures to address this issue. CERD reported a range of attacks perpetrated against migrants, including killings, displacement, abductions, looting, destruction of property, [...]

The growing use of autonomous and artificial intelligence (AI)-guided weapons on the battlefield prompted the UN and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday to call for a legally binding international agreement governing their manufacture and deployment. UN Secretary-General António Guterres and ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric warned of the increasingly rapid development and [...]

The UN warned on Friday that the global decrease in funding for humanitarian aid has forced aid programs and facilities in Somalia to shut down, and is resulting in increasingly severe consequences for Somali children. According to UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder, aid cuts closed doors to healthcare and deprived people, including children, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Thai authorities Monday to halt the deportation of ethnic Karen villagers from Thailand’s Phetchaburi province to Myanmar, citing grave risks to their safety if returned, and urging their immediate release from immigration detention. HRW reported that Thai security forces on Aug. 10 raided the Karen community living within Phetchaburi’s [...]

Security forces in Morocco prevented nearly 300 “irregular migrants” from crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, and arrested hundreds of other would-be migrants in the city of Fnideq, northern Morocco, on Saturday, according to local media. The actions occurred amid a persistent migration crisis in the region. According to a Moroccan security source, authorities [...]

The UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Ben Saul, urged the government of Mozambique on Friday to strengthen its efforts to protect human rights when combating terrorism and to address the root causes of the conflict. In a statement concluding his ten-day visit to [...]

The United Nations reported on Friday that the cost of key foods increased in July as a result of searing heatwaves and ongoing geopolitical instability, which have affected crop yields and global energy prices amid persistent hunger risks in multiple countries. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Food Price Index (FPI) [...]