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Climate scientists have long said that a warming of the earth's surface caused mainly by industrial-era emissions of carbon-dioxide from fossil fuels will make weather events more extreme.

"Reducing inequalities is a precondition for promoting mental health and for reducing key risk factors, such as violence, disempowerment and social exclusion,"

From the dream of a democratic state, how did Sudan wake into a nightmare of violence.

"Too much blood has been spilled. It has to stop or there will be no life left in the centre of Mali," said Habitatou Diallo one of the alleged 5,000 participants of Friday’s large-scale protest.

The hardening of the U.S.-Mexico border control measures and the hardness of the crossing contribute to the loss of lives.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres described violence against women as a “global pandemic” in a Sunday statement marking the international day of recognition.

“People with talent often don’t succeed. What we found in this study is that people with talent that come from disadvantaged households don’t do as well as people with very little talent from advantaged households,” director of the CEW and lead author of the report, Anthony P. Carnevale, explained.

Canada is evicting Indigenous people to make way for a mega-pipeline.

According to Colombo-based media watch dog "Free Media Movement" (FMM), Sinhalese authorities are pursuing legal action under the provisions of the 2007 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) against Kusal Perera.

Egypt's former President Mohamed Morsi has died after appearing in court in the capital, Cairo, according to authorities.

judge Michael Leburu said that it is “not in the public interest” to criminalize same sex sexual conduct.

impacts of climate change on global food production are mostly negative in Europe, Southern Africa, and Australia, generally positive in Latin America, and mixed in Asia and Northern and Central America