UN legal experts say international law prohibits the use of booby traps,a category that could include modified civilian pagers.
Australia’s UN ambassador has insisted that,despite Australia’s vote,it is only a matter of time until an independent Palestinian state is recognised.
Even before the typhoon,the UN estimated 18.6 million people out of a total population of 55 million needed humanitarian assistance.
As humanitarian crises unfold around the globe,the United Nations is looking at its books.
Years after reporting on a broken country,a journalist revisits Rwanda to see its famous gorillas – and discovers a land in the midst of renewal.
The United Nations issued a global SOS on Tuesday,releasing new data showing global sea-level rises have doubled since the 1990s.
Jem Bendell was made famous by his paper Deep Adaptation,in which he argued that climate collapse was inevitable. Now he says it has already begun.
Temperatures have topped 50 degrees in 10 countries around the world in the past year,but Australia could experience a cooler,wetter summer.
This year,it is the tiny petrostate of Azerbaijan,next year giant Brazil,and if the Albanese government gets its way,Australia will be next in line to host the climate Olympics.
Decades on from Pol Pot’s murderous regime,renowned Australian researcher Helen Jarvis is seeking World Heritage listing for the “killing fields”.
The experts also called on the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to stop celebrating disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith after a damning defamation judgment.