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Amid Pandemic and Endless War, 170+ Global Organizations Urge World Leaders to 'Recommit to Peace Today'
A child waits next to jerry cans and aid packages as Yemenis displaced by conflict receive humanitarian aid provided by the Abs Development Organisation in the northern province of Hajjah on September 17, 2020. (Photo: Essa Ahmed/AFP)
Billionaires Called to Pay It Back as UN Warns of 'Wave of Hunger and Famine' That Could Rock Globe
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
A malnourished child holds the finger of his father as he receives treatment at a hospital on June 30, 2020 in Sana'a, Yemen.
"It's time for those who have the most to step up, to help those who have the least in this extraordinary time in world history," says the World Food Programme director. "Humanity is facing the greatest crisis any of us have seen in our lifetimes."
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UN Biodiversity Report Urges 8 Transitions Needed to Restore Essential Ecosystems Impacted by Humanity
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A U.N. report released Tuesday details the world's biodiversity crisis and a path to address it. (Photo: jotily/Getty Images)
"We can no longer afford to cast nature aside. Now is the time for this massive...
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UN: Israeli Demolition of Palestinian Homes Increases Despite Pandemic
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
An Israeli bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian home in the illegally-occupied West Bank village of Khirbet Jinba on September 2, 2020. (Photo: Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images)
Dozens of Palestinians were recently displaced because Israeli authorities...
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A malnourished child lies in a charity clinic in Hodeida, Yemen on November 3, 2019. (Photo: Essa Ahmed/AFP/Getty Images)
New UN Report Recommends ICC Investigate Possible War Crimes by All Sides—Including US-Backed Coalition—in Yemen
cover image of WWF's Living Planet Report 2020
'Nature Is Unraveling': Report Reveals 'Alarming' 68% Plummet in Wildlife Populations Worldwide Since 1970
A man assesses the damage caused by floods after heavy rains hit the Al Lamab neighborhood of Khartoum, Sudan on September 8, 2020. (Photo: Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
With World Closing in on Paris Warming Limit, UN Report Makes Case for 'Transformational Action' to Remake Global Economy
Hashem Mahmoud Atin, a 10-month-old displaced Yemeni child suffering from acute malnutrition and who is unable to reach a hospital for treatment, is held by his mother at a camp in Abs in northern Yemen's Hajjah province on September 3, 2020. (Photo: Essa Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images)
UN Warns Pandemic-Intensified Famines Are Looming, 'Endangering the Lives of Millions'
A "commitment to sustaining peace is more urgent than ever," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday.
UN Chief: Pandemic Must Be Met With Commitment to Peace
'Screams of Torture' as Authoritarian Government in Belarus Continues Attacks on Protesters, Journalists
UN Calls for Temporary Basic Income for World's Poorest 2.7 Billion People as 'Lifeline' Amid Pandemic
A file photo shows the FSO Safer supertanker permanently anchored off Yemen's Red Sea coast, west of Hodeida.
'Massive Floating Time Bomb': Warnings of Ecological, Humanitarian Disaster as Tanker Risks Dumping Four Times More Oil Than Exxon Valdez
U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Agnes Callamard holds a press conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on October 25, 2019.
'Not Just a Slippery Slope... A Cliff': UN Expert Warns of Expanding Drone Threats After Soleimani Assassination
The sun goes down behind chimneys at a coal plant in Duisburg, Germany on June 28, 2019. (Photo: Marcel Kusch/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Humanity on Track to Soon Hit 1.5ºC Paris Accord Limit as Atmospheric CO2 Nears Level Not Seen in 15 Million Years
The report warns that the coronavirus pandemic is set to make things worse for the poorest people in the world.
'Dangerous Complacency': UN Expert Issues Scathing Report Denouncing Global Failures to Tackle Poverty Even Before Covid Pandemic
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As Covid-19 Crisis Continues, UNEP and Global Partners Release 10-Point Plan to Prevent the Next Pandemic

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