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TED Oct 14, 2015 Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended — and their human rights threatened — by killer … Continue reading →

Democracy Now! Published on Nov 17, 2016 http://democracynow.org – Democracy Now! broadcasts from the United Nations climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco, where delegates from more than 190 countries are gathered to discuss how to implement the Paris Agreement from last … Continue reading →

Democracy Now! Published on Nov 17, 2016 http://democracynow.org – As we broadcast from Morocco, we speak with former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson about an issue that is being largely ignored: Morocco’s 41-year occupation of the Western … Continue reading →

Democracy Now! Published on Nov 17, 2016 http://democracynow.org – During his campaign, Trump repeatedly said he would end all immigration to the U.S. by Syrian refugees and others from what he called “terror-prone nations,” and on Wednesday, a spokesman for … Continue reading →

Democracy Now! Published on Dec 10, 2015 Today is International Human Rights Day, which commemorates the day on which the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. As we broadcast from the U.N. climate … Continue reading →

TED Published on Oct 14, 2015 Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended — and their human rights threatened — … Continue reading →

Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended — and their human rights threatened — by killer storms, starvation and the … Continue reading →

Grantham Imperial Published on Apr 23, 2015 Mary Robinson explains how Climate justice, which links human rights, development and climate change, can help us to develop policies and actions that are good for people as well as the planet. Global … Continue reading →

Grantham Imperial Published on Apr 23, 2015 Mary Robinson explains how Climate justice, which links human rights, development and climate change, can help us to develop policies and actions that are good for people as well as the planet. Global … Continue reading →