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World Habitat Day 2022 |
By :HIC-HLRN |
03 October 2022 |
On the occasion of World Habitat Day 2022, Habitat International Coalition (HIC) joins Members, allies and development actors to reflect on its journey of more than 45 years since the first Habitat Conference (1976) and common Habitat Agendas. Global activism has been indispensable in developing global consensus and commitments to More...
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Proposal for a UN Habitat Stakeholder-engagement Mechanism |
By :HIC-HLRN |
01 September 2022 |
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Palestine: Environmental Colonization and Apartheid |
By :Ben Lorber, Red-Green Labour |
16 December 2021 |
Israel’s environmental colonialism and eco-apartheid
This article follows an earlier post on Red-Green Labour about the campaign to keep the JNF out of Cop 26, and reprints a 2012 article by the author, with updates.
In 1997, a bridge collapsed at an international sports event in Israel, pitching more than 100 Austrian athletes More...
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Copping-out at CoP26 |
14 November 2021 |
The 26th Conference of Parties (CoP26) ended in grave disappointment at the state delegations who weakened the needed commitments to save the planet from multiple climate disasters. This CoP, the supreme governing body of international agreements on climate change action, finally took place in Glasgow, Scotland, on 31 October–13 November More...
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USA: CSOs Urge Senate Reject SCotUS Pick |
By :Over 150 organizations |
06 October 2020 |
Following the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court, over 150 justice organizations and movements, including advocates for the homeless and defenders of the human right to adequate housing, issued a letter urging the Senate to oppose her confirmation. While the nomination raises a broad More...
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UN Invites Corporate Capture of Food Systems |
By :HIC-HLRN |
23 March 2020 |
The UN has increasingly involved corporations in UN decision making, a trend made obvious in the 2012 Rio+20 Conference. This time, the UN Secretary-General (UNSG) has formed an alliance with the corporate world—outside of the framework of UN Charter-based specialized agencies—to set the global agenda for further corporate capture of More...
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COVID-19: We Need a Human Rights Habitat |
By :HIC-HLRN |
17 March 2020 |
In the current COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has advised and responsible governments have enforced that we stay at home stay, frequently wash our hands often with soap and warm water, maintain social distancing and keep our immune system strong, these live-saving measures are impossible for vulnerable people More...
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UN: A Call to Human Rights “Action” |
By :HIC-HLRN |
25 February 2020 |
At the opening of this 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council, on 24 February 2020, Secretary-General António Guterres finally issued a formal initiative to consolidate human rights action in the fourth year of his five-year term. The much-welcome initiative bears the title The Highest Aspiration: A Call to More...
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Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development |
09 February 2020 |
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Toward an Institutional Mechanism for Stakeholder Engagement in the New UN Habitat Governance |
By :HIC-HLRN |
09 February 2020 |
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