States with abysmal human rights records seek election to the UN Human Rights Council not to advance human rights but to block their realization. This cynical behavior is an aberration that needs to ...

Over 25 years ago, during my first year in a doctoral program, I recall having a conversation with one of my White male peers. We were part of a cohort of five students: 2 White males, 1 White female, ...

Many people imagine that countries with authoritarian regimes are horrifying places, with populations ruled by terror and indoctrinated to blind obedience by some ...

Despite major gains in education and reducing poverty in recent decades, entrenched inequalities are eroding trust in institutions and democratic systems around the world, the UN warned Tuesday.

The amusing photo filter, FaceApp, which uses artificial intelligence to digitally age your face, has gone viral once again recently, with millions of altered photos shared on social media. Even ...

About sixty million Filipinos voted in midterm elections earlier this month, with thousands of government posts on the ballot, including half of the country’s 24-seat Senate. The prediction of a ...

More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was affected by drought in the first ten days of August, according to an AFP analysis on Monday of European Drought Observatory (EDO) data. The ...

International leaders closed out 2021 by endorsing a global tax deal that aims to stop the so-called “race to the bottom.” According to United States’ President Joe Biden, the agreement “will finally ...

Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the UN General Assembly just over a week after an independent UN Commission concluded that Israel has committed genocide — the worst crime under international law.

Nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and deeply unequal burden,” the United ...

During the presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a question about one of the most common ways the US extracts fossil fuels, fracking, by announcing: “I will not ban fracking… ...

There’s a good reason half the country didn’t believe President Donald J. Trump when he claimed he didn’t conspire with the Russians; the claim was mixed in with too many lies on too many important ...