According to a UN report, sand and dust storms, worsened by climate change, are impacting health and environments globally, ...

With Caribbean youth disproportionately facing complex challenges that threaten their health and overall well-being, the UN ...

Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and ...

High Commissioner Volker Türk says he has not been allowed access to inspect El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

As extreme heat grips many countries and becomes “the new normal”, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warns of heightened ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council passed a motion on climate change and human rights on Tuesday after the Marshall Islands ...

Powerful corporations, governments and political parties intentionally spread false information about climate change to avoid ...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Countries are set to vote at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday on a pledge to phase out fossil fuels to fight climate change, with diplomats warning that Gulf ...

The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries' legal obligation to fight climate ...

Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius was thought to be the threshold for averting severe ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday praised the recent advisory opinion on the climate crisis from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) as a ...

An advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights also concluded that governments have special obligations to ...