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Things could have been so different. In June 1992, the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro created the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, launching the formal international mission to bring global warming emissions under control and reduce humanity’s negative impacts on our…

He said the achievements in India in the last six-seven years are captured and driven by the SDGs.

From trade unions to a bishop, activists are uniting to keep the UK government to its North Sea climate commitments

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Human Rights Watch says pandemic exacerbated weaknesses in country’s social security system

Cambridge doctoral student Oliver Barker-Vormawor says ‘trauma is still there’ as he files lawsuit

Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia far behind the frontlines on Thursday in an attack which Ukrainian officials called a war crime and said had killed at least 23 people, including three children.

Several of the world’s leading human rights groups have accused Israel of committing the crime of apartheid, writes Richard Hall

The start of a "Decade of Action" to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also marked beginning of an unprecedented period of overlapping crises.

Thursday: Almost 100 aged care residents are dying from coronavirus each week. Plus: should Australians cut down on charcuterie?

Adam Fischer, Rebecca Kleefisch, Tim Michels, and Timothy Ramthun are running in the Republican primary for governor of Wisconsin on August 9, 2022. Kleefisch and Michels have received the most media attention and endorsements.