Any new HIV prevention method is not meant to sit on the shelf but to be used by the people who need it to protect themselves from HIV. We have to ensure that new HIV prevention technologies that are ...

Berkeley, CA/Santa Barabara, CA (14 November 2024) — A new study released in Science today determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste — plastic that isn’t recycled or ...

At the conclusion of the “DAGIT-PA” exercises, the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) raises alarm over the DAGIT-PA exercises’ impacts on the Filipino people.

The annual APEC Bio-Circular-Green (BCG) Award recognizes individuals who have implemented sustainable practices with lasting positive impacts in their communities. It covers three categories – Women, ...

The Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review opened today, bringing together over 1,200 delegates from governments, civil society and youth groups, the private sector and academia ...

The Global Call to Find All TB to Stop TB was launched in 2023 by organisations and individuals who united to find all TB in people-centred and rights-based manner - and link all of them to care: ...

Linking climate-related metrics to executive pay is an important signal of intent, the report argues, allowing investors to make decisions based on how aligned a company’s leadership is to climate ...

I am shocked by the abduction of Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye on 16 November 2024 in Kenya and his forcible return to Uganda. After having been held in incommunicado detention, Besigye ...

The warning signs were already there. When governments impose higher taxes on imported goods, it often translates to more expensive products in the market. When governments increase trade restrictions ...

UN experts* today expressed alarm at an imminent execution in the United States using nitrogen hypoxia and said that this method may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, or even torture.

We are gravely concerned by the use of the National Security Law to convict and impose harsh sentences on 45 people in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region today. The use of such security laws ...

A 25-year-old Rohingya woman was among a group of 100 Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh to escape drone and artillery strikes on August 5 by the Arakan Army (AA)—an ethnic armed group fighting the ...