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Warning of 'Existential Threat' to Humanity, UN Chief Says Climate Change 'Moving Faster Than We Are'

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres

With Hundreds of Children Still Detained, Sessions Instructs Judges to Show Less 'Sympathy' for Immigrants

Jake Johnson, staff writer

One immigration judge denounced the attorney general's comments as a "political statement which does not articulate a legal concept that judges are required to be aware of and follow"

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Reinforcing US Status as 'Bully and Hegemon,' Bolton to Threaten ICC Over Probes into America's War Crimes

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Human rights advocates decried the Trump administration's attack on the...

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'Pariah' Status of Trump Solidified as UN Watchdog Reports Iran Continues to Comply with Nuclear Deal

Julia Conley, staff writer

Inspectors revealed Iran is continuing to limit its uranium enrichment as...

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UN Probe Says Repeated Bombing of Yemen Civilians by US-Backed Saudi Coalition Likely Amounts to War Crimes

Rohingya

Damning UN Report: Myanmar Generals Should Be Prosecuted for Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Accusing Trump of 'Naked Economic Aggression,' Iran Urges UN High Court to Halt US Sanctions

Less Than 24 Hours After Senate Rejected Effort to Curb Yemen Slaughter, 26 More Children Killed by US-Backed Bombing

President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton

John Bolton Announces Trump Admin Will Re-Up Attack on United Nations and Defund Human Rights Agencies

As UN Rights Chief Warns Trump's Press Attacks 'Close to Incitement of Violence,' Newspapers Ready Coordinated Response

'Insidious': Emails Show Trump White House Lied About US Poverty Levels to Discredit Critical UN Report

“My child was all that I had. He was the one who paid my rent, gave me money to do business, and he died.”(Photo: Orlando Barria/EPA)

60 Human Rights Groups Implore UN to Deliver 'More Than Just Empty Words' to Victims of Haiti's Cholera Crisis

Bernie Sanders: Trump Attack on Breastfeeding Resolution Shows White House's "Slavish Devotion to Corporate Profits"

Barbara Lee Urges UN to Probe Trump's Human Rights Abuses at Border as Violation of International Law

In Poignant Homage to Lives Lost, Guardian Prints Names of All 34,361 Refugees Known to Have Died Fleeing War and Persecution Since 1990s

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley

As World Commemorates 70th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Looks Like Trump About to Ditch UN Human Rights Council

Newswire

Physicians for Human Rights

U.S. Withdrawal from Human Rights Council Undermines Accountability

Amnesty International - USA

USA Leaves the UN Human Rights Council

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Congresswoman Lee Slams U.S. Withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council

Human Rights First

Trump Administration Further Harms U.S. Interests in Abandoning UN Human Rights Council

Oil Change International

Official Submissions Call on UN Climate Parties to Address Fossil Fuel Production and Financing

Jubilee USA Network

Debt, Corruption and Tax Policies Impact Poverty, Says Vatican at United Nations

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Neve Gordon

UNRWA and Trump's Attempt to Erase the Palestinian People

Jonathan Cook

US Cuts to UNRWA Point to the Dark Future Being Readied for the Palestinians

Richard Falk

The U.S. Withdraws (Again) From the UN Human Rights Council

Juan Cole

The American March to Inequality: Why the UN Alston Report Alarms the Trump Plutocrats

Adam Parsons

We Need to Reclaim the UN's Radical Vision of Global Economic Justice

John M. Repp

UN Report Says US is a “Shithole Country”

Jeremy Slevin

The UN Just Published a Scathing Indictment of US Poverty

Hannah McKinnon

When You Are In a Hole…

Marjorie Cohn

Trump Finds Fellow Bully in Bolton

Yara Hawari

What Would Happen If Trump Cuts UNRWA Funding?

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