United Nations
The Tory MP sparked anger by accusing the UN agency of "playing politics" with its £25,000 donation to a London community project.
No.10 suggests home secretary is looking to Australia's controversial "stop the boats" policy for potential inspiration.
The Internal Market Bill breaches the Withdrawal Agreement brokered by Boris Johnson and Theresa May. Will the UK face sanctions? Or... anything?
The United Nations said LGBT people are at an elevated risk of domestic and family violence.
Without a vaccine or effective drugs the UK has warned social distancing measures could last until the end of the year. Despite showing support for anti-lockdown protesters, U.S. President Trump has criticized the governor of Georgia for reopening too soon. The United Nations warned that the coronavirus pandemic risks becoming a human rights crisis because of what U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said was “the rise of hate speech, the targeting of vulnerable groups, and the risks of heavy-handed security responses undermining the health response.” Australia is calling for G20 countries to evaluate the safety of wet markets - calling them a "biosecurity and human health risk." Some reports claim that covid-19 originated in a wet market that sold wild animals in Wuhan, China. And an elderly couple in their 80s who live on either side of the German and Danish border have managed to keep their love alive despite lockdown measures - by, literally, meeting in the middle for tea and Schnapps.
“These talks reflect how disconnected country leaders are from the urgency of the science and the demands of their citizens in the streets."
The Swedish activist accused politicians and big business of “clever accounting and creative PR” to create the appearance of action.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden's alternative Nobel Prize. Last Friday, Thunberg was at the United Nations and demanded governments take emergency action.
The president mocked the teen activist on Monday: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”
From childhood, girls are conditioned to be amenable. How inspiring and important, then, that the teenage activist didn’t cut the tension at the UN by flashing a smile, opinion editor Lucy Pasha-Robinson writes.