“Green Passport” initiative comes to Rio
Even if you have a national passport, the UN Environment Programme, UNEP, and Brazil are encouraging all who visit Rio de Janeiro these days to get a “Green Passport”.
Even if you have a national passport, the UN Environment Programme, UNEP, and Brazil are encouraging all who visit Rio de Janeiro these days to get a “Green Passport”.
The expansion of Israeli settlements and the realities of occupation have created a precarious and worrying situation for workers in the occupied Arab territories.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has condemned last week’s massacre of more than 100 people in Houla, a cluster of villages in central Syria and ordered an independent probe.
Governments, business leaders and trade unions around the world are being urged by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to take urgent action to stop forced labour.
The United Nations is taking steps to make sure its blue helmets are going green.
Ahead of the UN’s Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, the Global Compact, a UN voluntary initiative for responsible corporate citizenship will hold its own forum.
Over 1,000 business people from 130 countries are expected to attend from 15-18 June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Two men are literally sketching out a better future for women and girls in Haiti.
Mike Charles, a script writer, and Chevelin Pierre, an illustrator, are behind a new comic book that encourages Haitian women and girls to go after the career of their dreams.
As many as 60 million additional jobs could be generated through a transformation to a greener economy according to a new report.
The Green Jobs Initiative says this could potentially lift tens of millions of workers out of poverty over the next two decades.
Cigarette makers are now using the court system to undermine public health policies that protect people from the harmful effects of tobacco.
Victims of Sierra Leone's brutal civil war are celebrating Charles Taylor’s sentence of 50 years in prison.