delegates

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As government delegates arrived Monday, climate activists and Indigenous groups protested against fossil fuels on the streets and beaches of the Caribbean port town where coal tankers dot the ocean horizon.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

Brazilian delegates told negotiators gathered in Berlin this week for a separate pre-COP meeting that they aim to produce a plan in time for the U.N.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

The Sinn Féin vice-president also told delegates that her party would "work to reform the institutions of the assembly - because they must work for the people".

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Iran’s foreign minister arrived in Islamabad, but it isn’t clear if the U.S. delegates will meet directly with him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention, but she sat with the wives of delegates and shared the female delegates’ “humiliation and chagrin.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling