The U.S. rejected a United Nations political declaration Thursday about combatting chronic disease and promoting mental health because of language the Trump administration said was objectionable.

The old cliché “action speaks louder than words” has a deadly ring for campesino (peasant farmers) activists contemplating a historic international pledge to do better to protect them from ...

In 2007, researchers at University of Gothenburg, Sweden published the first in a series of studies showing massive pollution with antibiotics from pharmaceutical factories in India. In connection ...

Civil society organisations have warned that efforts to strengthen global action on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health are at risk, as powerful industry lobbying threatens to weaken a ...

17 April 2024 - Despite important achievements over the past decade to improve the well-being of Indigenous Peoples, safeguard their cultures, and expand their participation at the UN, “deep chasms” ...

UNHCR welcomes Colombia's decision to support to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People as a significant step forward in efforts to protect indigenous groups in the context ...