Tag: humanity
What is humanitarian education and does it help build peace?
Humanitarian organizations invest in education to promote safety, resilience, and social cohesion, but researchers continue to debate its long-term impact on conflict and human well-being.
Illegitimate power, illegitimate violence: How nations are built on the backs...
True justice begins at birth, not in systems that mask inequality with the language of freedom and hide civil erasure behind institutional power.
Humanity’s shrinking window: Reversing the Amazon’s slide toward the tipping point
A closer look at the Amazon’s declining health and its global implications.
Not as simple as 1, 2, 3: Humanity has a surprisingly...
Language plays an important role in understanding the concept of numbers.
The growing movement to bring back community grief and ritual
A free and open community grief-tending event in Berkeley, California, set an example for coming to terms with loss—of people we love and of nature.
A promising new project to organize humanity’s universal heritage
An international group of researchers and data scientists are creating a comprehensive database of the world’s archaeological knowledge—and changing our understanding of humans’ prehistoric heritage.
By 2030, poor nations will need $2.4 trillion per year to...
"Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish. It is either a climate solidarity pact—or a collective suicide pact."
An obituary for our world
Yes, my obituary is a given, but humanity’s should be so much less so.
Increasing disasters are ‘setting humanity on a spiral of self-destruction,’ UN...
“The financial system really needs to get ahead of this curve, because otherwise there’s a lot of built-up risk that isn’t being priced into how we make decisions.”
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Illinois presses Tyson for a buyer after 2,500 workers lost their jobs overnight
The plant's chief executive was paid 781 times the median worker's wage the same quarter its beef unit posted a loss.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to freeze block on USPS mail ballot rule
North Carolina and Alabama are due to start mailing ballots this week, and the justices have set a deadline of their own.
A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What...
It’s no longer possible to hold climate change to 1.5. But it’s not game over – it’s game on.
Interfaith leaders say they were ‘misled’ into attending event with far-right Hindu leader
Mohan Bhagwat’s appearance at Madison Square Garden was the latest in an influence operation conducted by the RSS and its allies in the U.S.
Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More...
Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division can take months or even years to issue formal safety warnings about marijuana products even when it receives reports that the products are harming people’s health, The Denver Gazette and ProPublica found.