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The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it a “cesspool of political bias”. The “hypocritical and self-serving” body “makes a mockery of human rights”, said US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley. Formed in 2006, the Geneva-based council has been criticised for allowing countries with questionable human rights records…

The Ukrainian government says it fears that many more civilians may have been killed by Russian forces in towns around Kyiv, before they retreated further east. It follows the discovery of many dead civilians in the city of Bucha. Ukrainian human rights workers believe that hundreds more people may be buried in a mass grave…

“Several human rights groups have called on UN members to think again. One, UN Watch, said it was like making a gang of arsonists responsible for the fire brigade.” (BBC Radio 4, October 13, 2020.)
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Whale scientist Nan Hauser describes how she believes a humpback whale saved her from a shark, and what happened when the same whale came back. Subscribe: #BBCEarth #CloseEncounters Watch more: Planet Earth Blue Planet Planet Earth II Planet Dinosaur Close Encounters: Birth of a Colony Being saved by a whale, finding an extinct frog, and…

Catastrophic climate change outcomes, including human extinction, are not being taken seriously enough by scientists, a new study says. The authors say that the consequences of more extreme warming, which is possible if no action is taken, are “dangerously underexplored”. They argue that the world needs to start preparing for the possibility of what they…

Catastrophic climate change outcomes, including human extinction, are not being taken seriously enough by scientists, a new study says. The authors say that the consequences of more extreme warming, which is possible if no action is taken, are “dangerously underexplored”. They argue that the world needs to start preparing for the possibility of what they…

China is conducting Winter Olympic test events as its prepares to allow foreigners to enter again in large numbers next February, for the first time since the Covid pandemic began.
The country has also come under criticism for human rights abuses, wit…

China is conducting Winter Olympic test events as its prepares to allow foreigners to enter again in large numbers next February, for the first time since the Covid pandemic began.
The country has also come under criticism for human rights abuses, wit…