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More action needed in the EU to reduce the impacts of chemical pesticides

News ItemPublished 26 Apr 2023ImagePerry Wunderlich, NATURE@work /EEADespite progress in some EU Member States to reduce their use, pesticide pollution still poses significant...

Carbon leakage – preventing firms from avoiding emissions rules

Parliament wants an ambitious carbon levy on imported goods to stop companies from avoiding emissions rules by moving outside the EU, a practice known as carbon leakage.

Burkina Faso: UN rights office calls for probe into latest deadly attack on civilians

Authorities in Burkina Faso must conduct a full and independent investigation into the recent latest deadly attack on civilians, where score of people are killed in a village

Sudan: UN aid operation continues amid dire humanitarian conditions

Ten days of fighting between rival military forces have had a devastating impact on the country’s population. The UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) warned...

Rights office calls on Russia and Ukraine to observe rules of war, after alleged POW executions

If confirmed, the actions would breach the rules of war, and could amount to a war crime. In a briefing on Tuesday in Geneva, OHCHR...

Singapore: OHCHR calls on authorities to halt imminent trafficking execution

OHCHR’s Ravina Shamdasani was briefing journalists in Geneva, and said that reports had emerged from Singapore that it was “poised to conduct a further...

UN salutes ‘inspiring’ life of civil rights champion Harry Belafonte

“At this moment of sorrow, let us be inspired by his example and strive to defend the dignity and rights of every human being,...

Power struggle imperils Sudan’s future, ‘lights fuse that could detonate across borders’

António Guterres was addressing an emergency session of the UN Security Council in New York, and again demanded an end to the fighting between...

Will the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU be suspended?

This is the question some activists are asking themselves in Spain The presidency of the Council of the European Union (Consillium) is rotating and...

‘Methane blockers’ on British cows to reduce carbon emissions

Cows in the UK may be given "methane blockers" in a bid to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, the Guardian reports. The proposal comes after...
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