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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.
During
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Housing and Land Rights in South Africa’s UPR |
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By :HIC side event |
| 23 September 2022 |
Housing and Land Rights ahead of South Africa’s UPR
The upcoming Universal Periodic Review of South Africa and the current Human Rights Council 51st session should focus on the human rights to adequate housing and land rights and protection of their defenders
Date: 30 September 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
In person: Room XXV,
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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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Petition for UN to Divest from Bolloré Group |
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By :Oakland Institute |
| 14 February 2022 |
While the United Nations works to fight poverty and hunger, UN organizations such as the UNDP, WFP and UNICEF show a striking lack of due diligence when choosing contractors such as the French Bolloré Group. Bolloré`s subsidiary Socfin is accused of corruption and land grabbing. Tell the UN to drop
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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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China Housing Market Slumps Again |
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By :Martin Farrer, The Guardian |
| 15 December 2021 |
China housing market slumps again as another developer runs into trouble
House prices, sales and construction all fell in November as Shimao Group shares plunge and Beijing assesses what to do with Evergrande
China’s giant housing market has continued to decline in the past month and another major developer showed signs of
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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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Land, Women and Socio-Economic Development in the Arab Region: A Literature Review |
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By :Joseph Schechla |
| 18 April 2021 |
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Why Reject Land Privatization |
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By :Oakland Institute |
| 25 February 2021 |
This Is Our Land: Why Reject the Privatization of Customary Land
Today, the Oakland Institute releases This Is Our Land: Why Reject the Privatization of Customary Land, an educational resource that debunks myths used for privatizing land around the world, while providing facts on how customary tenure systems are critical to
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Digitalization Blocks Access to Land |
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By :FIAN |
| 31 January 2021 |
Digital Technologies Block Access to Land
Despite promises to fix unjust land governance, a new study shows that digital technologies can further land grabbing and inequality.
As corporate giants discuss “Tech for Good” at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, recent findings show that *digitalization may increase existing inequalities. A
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