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[New] China could use the health crisis as a justification to expand its already vast surveillance system, which human rights bodies have described as dystopian.
By 2070, much of the world's population is likely to live in climate conditions that are warmer than conditions deemed suitable for human life to flourish.
One million natural species are threatened with extinction, many in a few decades, as three-quarters of the land-based environment on earth and about 66% of the marine environment are impacted by human activity.
Researchers in the US are currently developing a new pill that would prevent coronavirus from copying itself, with human trials expected to begin later this year.
NASA plans to land the first woman and the next man on the moon in 2024, and set up a continued human presence on and around the moon in eight years so they can use it to send astronauts to Mars.
This year will shape the US court system for generations, with a potential adverse impact on human rights depending on the outcome of the 2020 elections.
The world has until 2030 to cut human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in half to maintain a 50% chance of avoiding the worst effects of climate change.
The Mexican Government is currently working - through the Ministry of the Interior - on the preparation of the 2019-2024 National Human Rights Program, which is expected to include actions related to business and human rights.
From a global perspective, mandatory human rights due diligence brings opportunities to improve economic productivity, reduce inequalities, and improve livelihoods - all integral to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Consideration of biodiversity as a human right can provide an opportunity to align support from the EU and explore innovative partnerships as part of a holistic human rights-based approach to biodiversity conservation.
Johnson and Johnson, the drugmaker, hopes to take its vaccine into human trials in September and has set an aggressive commercial rollout timeline for as early as 2021.
The human family had grown to 7.6 billion by 2020 and had continued its obsession with economic, corporate, and technological growth that had caused the rising existential crises threatening humanity's very survival.
The market for humanoid robots will be valued at $3.9 Billion in 2023, growing at a staggering 52.1% compound annual growth rate between 2017 and 2023 1.
Though there are myriad angles to migration, it is important to think about how disruptions to human mobility and decreased remittance flows could pose serious longer-term challenges to migration and to global economic growth.
Coronaviruses thrive in animal reservoirs and represent a constant threat to human health as most recently exemplified the 2012 emergence of MERS-CoV, which is responsible for 2229 reported cases and 791 deaths worldwide.
Actions that support implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets provide opportunities to improve both global human health and ecosystem health.
Johnson & Johnson is aiming to produce between 600 million and 900 million doses of its potential coronavirus vaccine by the end of the first quarter of 2021 if human trials scheduled to begin in September go as planned.
The World Health Organization reports that there are at least 70 vaccines in development around the world right now, three of which have begun human trials: If all goes well, researchers and public health officials hope to have a vaccine available by the second half of 2021.
As concerns grow about how the coronavirus crisis might threaten human rights around the world, the United Nations is calling on countries to adopt a more cooperative, global and human rights-based approach to the pandemic.
The coronavirus pandemic is threatening the entire human race, the United Nations warned Wednesday as it launched a humanitarian response plan featuring an appeal for $2 billion to help the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.
Scientists have already documented reductions in air pollution in China, Italy and New York City because of restrictions on human activity, and researchers are now forecasting that 2020 could see the first sharp declines in global greenhouse-gas emissions since the 2008 recession.
For more than a year, as NASA has developed its Artemis plan to return humans to the Moon by 2024, the space agency has positioned Gateway as the Command Module where it would aggregate components of a Human Landing System and from where astronauts would descend down to the surface of the Moon.

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Last updated: 24 May 2020