In South Africa's worst-affected province, children under the age of five now make up the second-largest group being admitted to hospitals.
"This partnership with CropLife is in direct conflict with FAO's mandate as a U.N. institution to fulfill human rights to health, adequate food, clean water and environment, and safe working conditions."
"It would be absolutely unacceptable to force 57 million senior citizens to pay $11.50 more a month in Medicare premiums" due to Big Pharma's greed, the Vermont senator said.
America is drowning in too much rage and too many guns, and the 2nd Amendment is the racist anchor that's holding us down.
"His Interior Department has plowed forward with new oil and gas lease sales that wreck our public lands and exacerbate climate change—all while enriching the CEOs of big oil corporations."
The Fed and the big banks must be compelled, through federal legislation, to act on the threat that climate change poses to our financial system and the planet.
Richard Lee Richards was shot nine times in the back and side by a Tucson officer, who has since been fired, earlier this week.
Western observers want to blame India for the failure of the UN climate talks. Not so fast.
The findings of a new investigation, said one observer, "further demonstrate the growing trend of religious extremists forging cross-border alliances" to gut abortion rights.
The longer it takes the world to get vaccinated, the more variants we'll see.
"We need this administration to be courageous," said one physician. "This is not it at all."
"Student loan payments resume in 61 days. Borrowers are NOT ready or able to restart them," said Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.
The findings were only made available this week due to a public records request by a local independent news outlet and the Documenting Covid-19 Project.
The truth is big corporations and their ultra-rich CEOs are exploiting consumers.
A proposal for the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual-property rights on pandemic-related pharmaceuticals is still languishing, owing to opposition from rich countries whose companies are reaping monopoly profits. Fortunately, a public-health bill in Brazil points the way to a promising bottom-up solution.
Campaigners warn that autonomous weapons systems pose "grave threats" worldwide.
"Goes to show that lawmakers don't have to agree on everything to find common ground on solutions to the challenges facing everyday Americans."
"Public records released as a result of this request will shine light on the dangerous chasm separating Biden's climate promises from his refusal to phase out the use of our public lands and waters for oil and gas extraction."
"We have to see the end of North Sea projects as well as all new fossil fuel extraction: There is no future in them."
"For too long, the United States has failed to live up to its legal and moral commitments to the protection of civilians, as well as its own stated policies. This needs to change."
