The world's oceans absorbed a record amount of heat in 2025, further priming conditions for sea level rise, violent storms, ...

US military interventions, including the invasion of Venezuela, are oil-driven power grabs serving Trump and the fossil fuel ...

Civilians left in Sudan's El-Fasher after its capture by paramilitary forces are living without water or sanitation, haunted ...

More than two dozen people had been killed in Iran in a crackdown on the most significant protests to hit the Islamic ...

The US, which attacked Venezuela abducting its president, has a long history of interventions and support for dictatorships ...

The political status of Puerto Rico is a long-standing issue that requires urgent action. The island, an unincorporated territory of the United States, is neither a sovereign nation nor a U.S. state.

In 2017, China began to construct a huge network of detention camps in its northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Over a million indigenous Uyghur and Kazakhs are currently detained without ...

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, ...

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND – Last Friday afternoon, as New Zealand scrambled to find order following the massacre of 50 worshippers in two mosques, Kurdish former refugee Ashleigh Ali-Aziz’s phone rang ...

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 ...

One thing that nearly all observers of the American economy (and other developed countries around the world) can agree on is that income inequality has increased considerably in recent decades. The ...

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.