The Protocol on Water and Health remains the only legally binding international treaty explicitly linking environmental protection, water governance and public health. It has helped countries ...

Syria is undergoing a political transition following the overthrow of the Assad regime in December 2024 and 13 years of brutal civil war. In response to a journalist’s question, Mr. Al-Kateen said ...

In response to the IEA's just released flagship World Energy Outlook, the governmental OECD and global think tank has shown how it largely does not have its finger on the pulse of where most countries ...

The governors of the nine states of Brazil’s Amazon presented, on November 11, 2025, at the Amazon Hub – Blue Zone of COP30, the Amazon 2050 Strategy and the CAL2050 Platform. These initiatives ...

The governors of the nine states of the Brazilian Amazon participated on November 10, 2025 in the official opening of the Brazilian Amazon Consortium (CAL) spaces in the Blue Zone at COP30. The Hub ...

GENEVA (10 November 2025) - The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has called on Mozambique to step up efforts to prevent torture and ill-treatment, after finding that little progress has ...

GENEVA (7 November 2025) – UN experts* today expressed alarm over reports of widespread atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, North Darfur, including killings of ...

Given the cataclysmic violence in El Fasher, States, especially those who have influence over the parties to the conflict, are put on notice that unless they act quickly and decisively there will be ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa published today in Nature Communications is the first-of-its-kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining ...

A 30-year-old man has appeared in Christchurch District Court today, on two charges of causing loss by deception (over $1000), two charges of theft of a motor vehicle, and eight charges if shoplifting ...

Inside a scathing 135-page report into how police responded to accusations of sexual offending by former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming lies a quote from one of the country's most senior adult ...

Analysis - Once a liberal darling and champion of progressive policing, former police commissioner Andrew Coster has gone to ground, his reputation and legacy in tatters.