John Knox, a professor at Wake Forest University, was the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment from 2012 to 2018. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, who is a member of the Kankana-ey ...

Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery LONDON, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

What we choose to eat, how we move around and how these activities contribute to climate change is receiving a lot of media attention. In this context, greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and ...

Eight years after the deadly factory collapse, fashion brands must show their commitment to Bangladesh's garment workers by signing a new, legally binding worker- ...

Developing-nation delegates to the key UN climate conference in Scotland have been promised access to a COVID-19 vaccine, but with only two months to go, time is ...

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of African workers in Abu Dhabi had their lives turned upside down by overnight arrests, racist abuse, and unjustified deportations, ...

The global food system is the main driver of the ecological and climate crises pushing natural systems beyond the boundaries of a safe operating space for humanity ...

'CHINESE MAFIA' Cambodia shut its borders when COVID-19 struck in March 2020, barred almost all international flights and closed its schools to contain the virus, leaving many tourists and foreign ...

Across the world’s troubled spots, resource wars and economic crises are being fuelled by a new kind of high-tech “blood diamond” - cryptocurrency.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When labor inspectors arrived in a rural area of the Brazilian Amazon state of Para in late June, they expected to rescue illegal loggers ...

Support for the goal to keep global warming to 1.5C has won fresh political backing in 2021 - but it remains out of reach ...

Authorities say AI-driven call monitoring can cut crime and suicides, but privacy groups warn the tech can amplify racial bias in the prison system (Clarifies reference to analysis in para 6 ...