World
COP26: Indigenous peoples, protests, and a call to end the war on nature
Mother Nature, or “Pachamama”, as they say in Latin America, took centre stage as the pivotal UN climate conference reached the halfway point. Nature is critical to our survival: it provides the oxygen we need to breathe, regulates weather patterns, supplies food and water for all living things, and is home to countless species of wildlife, and the ecosystems they need to survive.
According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), human activity has disrupted almost 75 per cent of the earth’s surface and put some one million animal and plant species on the endangered list.
COP26: Disarm for our Planet & Peace
COP26 is the most important international climate talk since Paris. Every nation will “ratchet up” its climate commitments made in Paris. We hope that many corporations will make new climate commitments in the lead-up to the Glasgow Climate Talks. Join us in demanding that this year in Glasgow, the United Nations Climate Talks Conference (COP26) includes reducing military GHG emissions!
Abandoning Yemen?
United Nations Human Rights Council action silences Yemeni victims of human rights abuses.
By Kathy Kelly
Monday, October 11, marked the official closure of the U.N. Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (also known as the Group of Experts or GEE). For nearly four years, this investigative group examined alleged human rights abuses suffered by Yemenis whose basic rights to food, shelter, safety, health care and education were horribly violated, all while they were bludgeoned by Saudi and U.S. air strikes, drone attacks, and constant warfare since 2014.
“This is a major setback for all victims who have suffered serious violations during the armed conflict,” the GEE wrote in a statement the day after the U.N. Human Rights Council refused to extend a mandate for continuation of the group’s work. “The Council appears to be abandoning the people of Yemen,” the statement says, adding that “Victims of this tragic armed conflict should not be silenced by the decision of a few States.”
World Food Day: here’s what the UN is doing to fix ‘intolerable’ wrong of hunger
Currently, more than 815 million people do not have enough to eat. Some 155 million children under the age of five – 23 per cent – are chronically malnourished and stunted and may endure the effects of it for the rest of their lives. One in two infant deaths worldwide are caused by hunger.
Why Does Congress Fight Over Childcare But Not F-35s?
Photo credit: Rise Up Times
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
President Biden and the Democratic Congress are facing a crisis as the popular domestic agenda they ran on in the 2020 election is held hostage by two corporate Democratic Senators, fossil-fuel consigliere Joe Manchin and payday-lender favorite Kyrsten Sinema.
But the very week before the Dems’ $350 billion-per-year domestic package hit this wall of corporate money-bags, all but 38 House Democrats voted to hand over more than double that amount to the Pentagon. Senator Manchin has hypocritically described the domestic spending bill as “fiscal insanity,” but he has voted for a much larger Pentagon budget every year since 2016.
CodePink is a women's grassroots-initiated, worldwide organization of women and men working for peace, social justice and a green economy. CodePink SF serves the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
- COP26: Indigenous peoples, protests, and a call to end the war on nature November 6, 2021editorUN News/Grace Barret Indigenous activists demonstrate on the streets of the COP26 host city, Glasgow, during ...
- COP26: Disarm for our Planet & Peace October 29, 2021editorCOP26 is the most important international climate talk since Paris. Every nation will “ratchet up” ...
- Abandoning Yemen? October 16, 2021editorUnited Nations Human Rights Council action silences Yemeni victims of human rights abuses. By Kathy Kelly Monday, ...
- First Person: Poetry and the pain of loss and leaving; a voice from Syria October 30, 2021editor
A young Syrian woman has told the United Nations how poetry helped her to convey ... - UNESCO urges caution over fraudulent African artefacts, sold in its name October 30, 2021editor
UN Photo/Marco Dormino A resident walks past Djingareyber Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, once a legendary city ... - ‘We are one’: musical performance ‘King Clavé’ reveals that we are ‘interconnected’ October 2, 2021editor
UNFPA American percussionist Mickey Hart performing “King Clavé”. Based on the core belief that “humanity is ...
- Business leaders join UN chief to step up action for sustainability November 6, 2021editor
© WFP/Badre Bahaji Improving irrigation systems in developing countries supports livelihoods and helps attain the UN’s ... - First Person: Raising a glass to ‘Mama Cheers’ October 30, 2021editor
Delight Uganda Limited Julian Omalla (centre right) with her employees at Delight Uganda Limited. This is story ... - Work to make the world a better place: 5 things you need to know about ‘green jobs October 29, 2021editor
ILO/Marcel Crozet Women in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia work in a greenhouse they built to ...