From Military Jets to Snipers, Icelanders—Who Live in World's Most Peaceful Country—Shocked by All the Guns Surrounding Mike Pence

High-powered military jets. Armed guards. Snipers on rooftops. Bomb-sniffing dogs. Those were just some of the components of the security arsenal that accompanied U.S. Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday during his official visit to Iceland, a nation the Global Peace Index has ranked as the most peaceful nation in the world for 11 consecutive years. […]

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UNESCO Report Shows World's Most Vulnerable and Poor Paying More Than Rich for Clean Water

Click:my giftcardmall com mygift Globally, those who are poor or marginalized because of their identities pay far more than the rich to acquire clean water. That’s according to the new World Water Development Report (WWDR 2019), which is published annually by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’s World Water Assessment Program (UNESCO-WWAP). This […]

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'We Want to Show Them We Are Serious': 16 Youth Activists File Suit Against Major Nations for Failing to Act on Climate Crisis

More than a dozen youth activists from around the globe filed a “groundbreaking” legal complaint on Monday accusing five major nations of violating the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child by failing to act on the climate crisis. The complaint (pdf), presented to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child in […]

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