Paris Climate Change Agreement enters into force
Having been ratified this week by South Africa and enough other countries to take it over the 55-nation threshhold, the Paris Climate Change Agreement has entered into force. Environment groups hail what they call a momentous occasion but warn governments need to cut carbon emissions more steeply to avoid dangerous global warming. ends intro The […]
DRC halves incidents of rape in conflict
A United Nations Security Council Report reflects a halving of sexual violence in conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past three years. The world body’s special representative on sexual violence calls this the most successful experience in reducing the use of rape as a weapon of war. Between 2013 and 2015 incidents […]