Biden leads US back to membership in UNESCO
Former President Donald Trump's choice to withdraw the US from UNESCO in 2019 left China with more influence in the UN agency.
By Oliver Willis - June 30, 2023Former President Donald Trump's choice to withdraw the US from UNESCO in 2019 left China with more influence in the UN agency.
By Oliver Willis - June 30, 2023Fossil fuel companies have thrown their support behind the Lower Energy Costs Act.
By Josh Israel - March 28, 2023Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is the second prominent Republican to announce a 2024 presidential campaign, following former President Donald Trump.
By Oliver Willis - February 14, 2023Human rights advocate Victor Madrigal-Borloz said NGOs and human rights defenders have found at least 280 current legislative attempts at the local level that would lead to a regression of LGBT rights.
By Associated Press - September 03, 2022United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that ‘fossil fuel producers and financiers have humanity by the throat.’
By Associated Press - June 17, 2022The funds will be used to help pay for projects that will help tribes adapt to climate change, as well as pay for the management of ocean and coastal assets.
By Oliver Willis - April 12, 2022The report hopes to build on momentum around the recent, intensified scrutiny worldwide about the blight of racism and its impact on people of African descent.
By Associated Press - June 28, 2021The world is looking to well-off countries to make clear how they’ll help poorer countries shutter coal plants and retool energy grids, including $2 billion that the U.S. already promised but has never paid.
By Associated Press - April 21, 2021‘For too long, we have been waging a senseless and suicidal war on nature.’
By Associated Press - February 21, 2021President Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office reversing the pullout ordered by Donald Trump.
By Associated Press - February 19, 2021U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that 130 countries have not received a single dose of vaccine.
By Associated Press - February 17, 2021Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the United Nations’ human rights body was one of a number of retrenchments from the international community in the past four years.
By Associated Press - February 08, 2021Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s background positions her well to carry out Biden’s goal of returning the United States to a role as a leading force at the world body.
By Associated Press - November 24, 2020The secretary of state is expected to plug a report that hijacks the term ‘unalienable rights’ to undermine women and LGBTQ people.
By Casey Quinlan - September 15, 2020‘I am my brother’s keeper. You in the United Nations are your brothers and sisters’ keepers in America — and you have the power to help us get justice for my brother George Floyd,’ Philonese Floyd said.
By Associated Press - June 18, 2020The U.N. says the practice should be banned across the globe.
By Casey Quinlan - June 17, 2020Trump has been scapegoating the WHO to deflect criticism of his own administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Emily Singer - April 15, 2020Mohammed Javad Zarif won’t be allowed to travel to the United Nations this week because the United States wouldn’t grant him a visa.
By Associated Press - January 07, 2020A dire report from the United Nations says countries need to immediately start reducing emissions to stop the effects of climate change.
By Associated Press - November 29, 2019After years of Trump vowing to withdraw, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo submitted a formal notice to the United Nations that the U.S. is leaving the landmark agreement.
By Associated Press - November 05, 2019The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. instead warned of vague ‘consequences’ if Turkey did not ‘play by the rules.’
By Frank Dale - October 11, 2019The United Nations is running a severe deficit, in no small part thanks to the Trump administration.
By Lisa Needham - October 10, 2019At the United Nations this week, the Trump team shopped a letter asking other countries to agree to the administration’s regressive health policies.
By Lisa Needham - September 24, 2019Climate activist Greta Thunberg skewers adults at the United Nations Climate Action Summit over indifference to climate change.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 23, 2019Last month at the G-7, Trump couldn’t be bothered to attend a climate change meeting. This week, he’s repeating that stunt at the UN.
By Lisa Needham - September 23, 2019The United Nations is concerned about the welfare of children held in horrifying conditions in Trump’s camps.
By Oliver Willis - July 08, 2019A top U.N. official said that the Republican Party’s war on abortion rights is ‘gender-based violence against women.’
By Emily Singer - June 04, 2019The Trump administration is standing in the way of supporting rape survivors.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 23, 2019The Trump administration is done pretending it cares about stopping racism at home or abroad.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 15, 2019The Trump White House is thinking of nominating Ivanka Trump for U.N. ambassador — backtracking on a claim that he wouldn’t pick his favorite child for the job.
By Emily Singer - February 18, 2019