Reuven Rivlin, president of the state of Israel, presents Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a gift of socks from his wife before a meeting in Chelsea, Que. in April 2019.
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Treating Israeli settlements as part of Israel in the new Canada-Israel free-trade deal entangles Canada in serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.
A king tide breaching a defence wall at Sabai Island in the Torres Strait, 2011.
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Torres Strait Islanders argue the government has violated their rights to culture, family and life.
A woman collects plastic bags bound for recycling in Yopougon, a suburb of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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Poorer countries can now refuse shipments of plastic waste and slow the build-up of pollution on their shores.
UN peacekeepers from South Africa in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012.
EPA/Dai Kurokawa
The UN’s mandate must evolve to navigate new realities that include intra-state wars, non-state actors, and transnational crime.
An immediate threat.
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To reduce the risks posed by natural hazards, governments need to address residents’ everyday fears, too.
The UN Security Council at the headquarters, in New York.
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An international civil service matters for global governance. Without it, it would be impossible to promote and maintain a rules-based world.
Cholera vaccines have been given to people in Beira after an outbreak following Cyclone Idai.
EPA-EFE/Celeste Mac-Arthur
Cyclone Idai showed just how unprepared SADC is to respond to major natural disasters.
Why might a country want to cut off its internet connection?
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Vladimir Putin’s complaints about Western power over telecommunications echo – if not co-opt – concerns raised by less powerful nations for decades.
View of the Palais de Chaillot, Paris, in September 1948, where the United Nations Assembly is held, at the end of which the Declaration will be signed (10 December 1948).
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Before 1945 and the United Nations Charter, human rights simply did not exist in international law.
It’s not all doom and gloom – pathways to restore the health of our planet do exist.
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The world is on the brink of creating irreversible damage to the environment if better policy isn’t rolled out. Read the findings of the UN report.
A man surveys the wreckage after a NATO strike misses its target and hits an apartment block in 1999.
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The fallout from this 78-day military campaign continues to be felt.
The world urgently needs to move past plastic.
Veronika Meduna
We need a global treaty to combat plastic pollution, but a small group of countries is blocking real action.
Filipinos hold a funeral march for Kian Loyd delos Santos, who was killed during a police anti-drug operation on August 16 2017.
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The UN’s new rights focus has the potential to overhaul the punitive nature of the war on drugs.
A Syrian refugee child sits on the window of his family’s trailer home painted by refugee artists in a camp near Mafraq, Jordan.
AP/Raad Adayleh
The revolution begun by Syrians exactly eight years ago has been won – by the murderous leader they rebelled against. But the struggle for freedom, dignity and justice Syrians launched is not over.
Students out in force.
Kevin J. Frost.
What’s the best thing I can do to help the climate? How long is the planet going to last? These questions and more answered by a climate scientist.
Doudou Diene, President of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi.
EPA-EFE/SALVATORE DI NOLFI
The UN doesn’t have the magic formula to end tensions in Burundi. It’s up to the country’s leadership.
Three British teenagers, including Shamima Begum, center, left the U.K. to join the Islamic State in 2015. Begum wants to return home now.
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Many of the men and women who left homes in the West to join ISIS or similar terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq as fighters or supporters now want to come home. Should they be allowed back?
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (right) shaking hands with former rebel leader and Vice President, Riek Machar.
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South Sudan’s road to peace has been bumpy but there’s hope.
Egyptian President and newly-elected AU Chairperson Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
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Having Egypt at the helm of the African Union might not bode well for human rights on the continent.
Photographs of people murdered during the 1994 genocide are displayed at the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda.
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Despite the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, signatories have never made an effort to end mass killings.