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Gabna community fear their traditional herding routes will be sacrificed as far-right rhetoric ramps up against them

The UN said a rise in global temperatures of 1.5C will be surpassed and that the challenge has now "shifted from avoiding overshoot to navigating it".

On a searing summer day, Israeli settlers splashed in a West Bank pool created by siphoning off water that had irrigated Palestinian crops, one of many seizures of water resources across ​the occupied...

Dutch bank Triodos argues that by prioritising “competitiveness” over tougher carbon pricing amid this summer's heat crisis, the EU is leaving its economy more exposed to future climate shocks.

Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Yesterday, Monday 20 July, Andy Burnham was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of the UK. Read below the letter CJC and our partners sent to welcome him into office. In it, we explain why action to pr...

Who are we hosting? Why are we hosting them? What do they represent? And what does their presence say about us, asks Colin Sheridan

59 civil society organisations and trade union organisations speak out against the Commission’s plans to change its approach to law-making. They denounce four elements, in particular: bypassing of imp...

Lynn Boylan has demanded that Minister Peter Burke publish the full data centre report, including the impact on household bills ...

Salvadoran political prisoner Ruth López’s family calls for her release. Audio published by Hondurasgate skips journalistic due diligence. Guatemala ends the tenure of an internationally sanctioned…

Dear Taoiseach Micheál Martin, We, the undersigned, members of the legal profession and academy, are writing to express our deep concern at the Irish Government’s continued failure to take the nece…

Trócaire said it had observed many harms in mining projects around the world

The ECT has become notorious for allowing energy companies to use secretive investor-state tribunals to claim millions or even billions from taxpayers when governments adopt public-interest measures…

ALT: a man wearing a headband stands on a tennis court and says you cannot be serious

ALT: a little girl is making a funny face with the words say it no on the bottom

A new economic study of the EU-Mercosur agreement shows that once more realistic economic dynamics are considered, projected economics gains become negligible and may even disappear entirely.

More than 3,000 US troops passed through airport during March after Iran conflict started

The State is planning to adopt a system that will allow big business to bully states into adopting policies that favour corporate profits

Niamh Ní Bhriain travelled to Havana last month as part of an international medical aid convoy. Although exhausted by life under the blockade, Cubans are defiant, she writes

Where do the EU deregulation laws come from? From extensive talks between the European Commission and business groups, often in opaque new types of dialogue, according to the report “This is what corp...

Ireland’s protection of the rule of law is stagnating, with persistent failures to implement EU recommendations and concerning legislative proposals raising alarm in civil society.