
ICRC financial crisis grows with more job cuts as funding shrinks
Funding for humanitarian aid has been getting hard to find amid global economic pressures, but the needs are soaring.
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Funding for humanitarian aid has been getting hard to find amid global economic pressures, but the needs are soaring.
In the recording, UAE officials anticipate a need to "minimize" attacks on the Gulf nation's human rights record when it hosts COP28 in Dubai later this year.
WMO said the summer of extremes continues: July was the hottest month ever recorded and the high-impact weather continues through August.
The conflict has pushed over 20 million people into severe acute hunger, including 6.3 million a step away from famine.
As climate litigation increases, the body of legal precedent grows, forming an increasingly well-defined field of law.
Mining the deep seas: The best way forward to a green energy transition, or a looming environmental disaster?
Extreme weather events and new records are becoming the norm as Earth suffers warming oceans, fires and rising floods.
Speakers blamed major economies for a system that puts profits over fighting poverty and caring for the planet.
"Let's face facts. The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It's fossil fuels – period," he said.
The debate over who should succeed Jens Stoltenberg, a Norwegian former prime minister, has become complicated. It's also possible he could agree to a fourth contract extension.
As the only G-7 member to have joined Beijing's sprawling global pact, Italy had indicated it would leave. But now Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says the decision is still up in the air.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus many of the world's glaring inequalities between rich and poorer nations.
Syrian President Bashar Assad, formerly ostracized by most Arab nations, was warmly readmitted to the Arab League.
Humanitarian leaders say the risk of nuclear catastrophe is the highest 'since the worst moments of the Cold War.'
The new technology accelerator from NATO quietly began taking shape a year before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Though the emergency phase is over, the World Health Organization's pandemic designation still holds.