Young environmentalists are putting the ethical dimensions of climate change at the center of a global debate that has historically focused on politics, efficiency and cost-benefits analysis.
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Economic and political assessments of climate change have for years helped justify inaction. Now, young environmentalists worldwide are shifting the debate to focus on values, ethics and justice.
If countries commit to universal health coverage alone, they will be emphasizing disease management over investing in wellness.
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The UN’s global health policy related to universal health coverage should be grounded in primary health care – with meaningful benchmarks to ensure patient participation.
The Port Kembla industrial area in NSW. Industry emissions can be cut by improving efficiency, shifting to electricity and closing old plants.
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The UN has asked world leaders to bring concrete climate action plans to this week’s summit - and Australia is likely to cop heavy criticism.
Smoke from a coal-fired Beijing power plant that closed in 2017 as part of China’s transition to cleaner energy.
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The United Nations is calling on world governments to step up action against climate change. Can China, the world’s biggest carbon emitter, fulfill its pledges?
Australia has changed the way it decides whether children with Down syndrome, and other conditions, can migrate permanently to Australia. But the changes don’t go far enough.
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How Australia treats migrants with health conditions and disabilities is discriminatory, obscure and unfair, as the UN will hear later this month.
Family photos of the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, displayed at a 25th anniversary memorial in April 2019.
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Learning from what actually worked during the United Nations’ infamously ineffective 1994 peacekeeping mission in Rwanda may save lives in the future.
Was the International Space Station the scene of space’s first crime?
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NASA is reportedly investigating the first alleged crime in space. But criminal jurisdiction aboard the International Space Station is much more straightforward than it would be for space tourists.
The government of President Paul Biya is accused of committing atrocities against opponents.
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Cameroon’s English speaking people suffer gross marginalisation and are treated as second-class citizens by the Francophone government.
Rohingya refugees in paddy field behind the border of Bangladesh in 2017.
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It will take a global effort to slow the rise in
atrocities against religious groups.
Death in detention: the aftermath of an airstrike on the Tajoura camp in Tripoli in July 2019.
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The NATO-led military intervention in Libya has just fuelled more violence.
Students like these only stand a chance with proper resource allocation.
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Achieving the sustainable development goals on education in Ghana requires efficient resource allocation, not necessarily more money.
A line of cars spills on to the street as drivers wait to fill their tanks at a fuel station in Cabimas, Venezuela, in May 2019. U.S. sanctions on oil-rich Venezuela appear to be taking hold, resulting in mile-long lines for fuel and other hardships.
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The devastating costs of economic sanctions on Venezuela are being ignored or disregarded. So too is the lack of a legal basis for international intervention.
President Donald Trump keeps trying to change immigration law and the courts keep blocking him.
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The Trump administration has once again tried to change immigration law, this time enacting severe limits on the rights of asylum-seekers. An immigration law expert says only Congress can do that.
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Brazil’s deforestation rate is back up. The UN Security Council has three main options.
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What should be done to ensure that the SDGs actually change countries’ development trajectories? Here are four practical steps.
Syrian refugee families in Gazza village, in the Beqaa valley, Lebanon, January 30 2019.
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Syrian refugees in Lebanon know how best to manage their resources, but food aid currently prevents them.
Smoke billows from the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor (2017). Impossible living conditions force people to migrate. It is time to collect a “destruction tax” on arms transactions ?
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Wars play a central role in increasing numbers of refugees worldwide. Is it time to think about a “destruction tax”?
The institution’s west dormitory is depicted in this 1942 photograph. Scudder demanded that no walls be erected on the prison grounds.
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Scudder’s approach was grounded in trust and mutual respect. There would be no guards, no weapons, no walls and no uniforms.
Thousands of Liberians took part in a June 2019 protest against President George Weah.
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Depending on foreign aid to pay the bills makes moving on when it’s gone harder.
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The UK must accept that colonialism belongs in the history books, and that it must comply with its obligations under international law.