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Women Resist UN Corporate Capture |
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By :Women;s Major Group |
| 24 September 2022 |
“Bigger than BlackRock: Challenging UN Corporate Partnerships”
Feminist economic justice must outweigh investment profits for UN Women
On 23 August 2022, the feminists behind #BlockBlackRock met with UN Women representatives to express concerns about the announced partnership with the world’s largest investment firm, BlackRock, and with the broader approach to corporate partnerships.
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"HR, Environmental Law Must Govern Business" |
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By :David Boyd, OHCHR |
| 04 July 2022 |
Human rights and environmental due diligence laws crucial to combat irresponsible business activities – UN expert
Press release
GENEVA—Rampant deforestation, chemical and plastic production, fossil fuel exploitation and other large-scale extractive activities by business entities are harming people and the planet, a UN expert said today, introducing a blueprint for laws to
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Africities9 CSO statement on social justice |
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By :Africities9 CSO Forum |
| 20 May 2022 |
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
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By :Joseph Schechla |
| 24 March 2022 |
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit
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Understanding Human Rights ETOs |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 15 January 2022 |
The new Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations has just been published and it is available in open access here. This new handbook compiles lessons and analysis by world experts on the human rights obligations of states beyond their territorial borders. It is designed to give meaning and
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Canada: Tax the Real Estate Speculators |
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By :Max Fawcett, National Observer |
| 12 January 2022 |
Tax the real estate speculators — and make it hurt
Opinion: Speculative behaviour in the housing market is causing huge collateral damage, and it’s getting in the way of families’ ability to afford to put a roof over their heads, writes columnist @maxfawcett.
Few publications do rage-inducing real estate clickbait as well
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Spain: Tenants Declare War on US Speculators |
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By :Jason Lalljee, Insider |
| 23 November 2021 |
Spanish renters are declaring `war` on the American investors that bought up all the apartments in their neighborhoods
US private-equity firms that own property in Spain have been evicting residents during the pandemic, the NYT reports.
Tenants and housing activists have declared "war," protesting evictions by squatting in apartments.
They argue that the
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UN Food Summit Will Only Feed Corporations |
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By :Sofía Monsalve, Geneva Solutions |
| 22 September 2021 |
Transnational agribusiness firms have captured the UN Food Systems Summit and have restricted the meeting`s agenda to solutions that will further inflate their profits instead of solving the global hunger crisis, says Sofia Monsalve, secretary general of the food rights organisation FIAN International.
When I visited my parents in Bogotá last month,
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Lebanon’s Sectarian Oligarchic Economy |
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By :Mat Nashed, Fanack |
| 30 June 2021 |
How a Sectarian Oligarchy Destroyed Lebanon’s Economy
Lebanon is coping with an unprecedented banking crisis that has plunged more than half of the population into poverty. Those responsible are sectarian political elites who have plundered the economy since Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1990.
Besides a glitchy downtown quarter reserved for the rich
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Responsibility for Single-use Plastic |
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By :Michael Corkery and Somini Sengupta, The New York Times |
| 18 May 2021 |
Here Is Who’s Behind the Global Surge in Single-Use Plastic
A new report shows that a surprisingly small number of big companies and banks are behind the manufacturing and financing of much of the world’s single-use plastic.
The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely seen
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Publication Date |
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Africities9 CSO statement on social justice
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20 May 2022 |
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Declarar una moratoria a desalojos en CDMX es una urgencia sanitaria
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11 February 2021 |
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Global Farmers Strike - First Wave
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01 February 2021 |
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تقرير جديد: الأرض وسط الجائحة
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11 December 2020 |
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Land Inequality Framing Document
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30 October 2019 |
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Revue Nationale Volontaire sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable en Mauritanie
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13 July 2019 |
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الحق في المدينة في بيروت الكبرى: تقييم السياق في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والنازحين
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23 April 2018 |
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Dubai Declaration on Land Governance in the Arab States
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26 February 2018 |
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Final Report of the Sixth Session of the Land Forum in MENA
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30 October 2017 |
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التقرير النهائي للدورة السادسة لمنتدى الأرض لإقليم الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا
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30 October 2017 |
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Land Forum VI program
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25 October 2017 |
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برنامج منتدى الأرض لشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا
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25 October 2017 |
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Human Rights Habitat Observatory
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10 July 2017 |
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“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs
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10 July 2017 |
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Habitat III Statement
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20 October 2016 |
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What Papua New Guinea Said
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26 July 2016 |
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Restoring Human Rights and Habitat to the Habitat III Process and New Habitat Agenda
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19 July 2016 |
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HIC @ Habitat III
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23 June 2016 |
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Making social regulation of real estate markets an issue at Habitat III
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02 February 2016 |
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Comentarios de HIC a los Documentos Marco sobre Políticas de Hábitat III (resumen)
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31 January 2016 |
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"Key Issues and Recommendations," Housing in the City We Need UTC
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18 November 2015 |
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Transformar nuestro mundo: la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible, A/RES/70/1
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21 October 2015 |
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The private modes of water capture in Lebanon
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01 September 2015 |
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Private interest closing social space? A critical analysis of Lebanon`s real-estate sector
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01 September 2015 |
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تقرير المقرر الخاص بالسكن اللائق كعنصر من عناصر الحق في مستوى معيشي مناسب وبالحق في عدم التمييز في هذا السياق، A/70/270
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04 August 2015 |
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HIC Comments on Habitat III Issue Papers
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31 July 2015 |
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Guía para el derecho a la ciudad
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21 July 2015 |
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دليل للحق في المدينة
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21 July 2015 |
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Principios Básicos de Habitat III
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16 April 2015 |
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أساسيات الموئل الثالث
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16 April 2015 |
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Prequantification Analysis Summary: Muthalath Maspero, Cairo
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11 February 2012 |
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The continuing debate about urban bias: the thesis, its critics, its influence, and its implications for poverty reduction strategies. Progress in Development Studies, 10 (1)
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18 July 2010 |
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The Investment Encouragement Act 1999 (Amended 2007)
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22 July 1999 |
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Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"
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01 March 1946 |
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Miriam Gould, "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate"
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01 March 1946 |
