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Rest in Peace and Power, Khadija Catherine Razavi |
By :CENESTA |
16 April 2022 |
With a broken heart and extreme sadness, we have to inform you all that our beloved Chair of the Board, Khadija Catherine Razavi, passed away on Saturday, 16 April 2022.
Catherine was an outspoken, strong, and unwavering voice for the non-human environment and an essential advocate for the continuous existence More...
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Human Rights Related to Habitat (Land, Housing, Population Transfer, Natural Resources) in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara |
By :WSUSA and HIC-HLRN |
16 March 2022 |
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Understanding Human Rights ETOs |
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 More...
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CSOs: UN Food Systems Pre-Summit Fails |
By :CSM |
02 August 2021 |
Thousands of people gather at counter-mobilization to reiterate “We need food systems that empower people, not companies”
UN Food Systems Pre-Summit falls short on climate, hunger crisis, COVID, and food systems transformation, say counter-mobilization participants, which totalled almost 9,000 people.
ROME—Between 25 and 28 July 2021, some 9,000 people participated in a More...
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Sierra Leone: ‘Ecological Disaster’ in Paradise |
By :Abdul Brima, China Dialogue Ocean |
18 June 2021 |
Sierra Leone sells precious beach to build Chinese-funded fishing port
Locals say the government’s decision to sell land at Black Johnson, an ecotourism destination, is a `human and ecological disaster`
Months after becoming Sierra Leone’s president in 2018, Julius Maada Bio scrapped a much-hyped international airport that his predecessor, Ernest Bai Koroma, More...
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Al-Haq International Law Online Summer School |
By :Al-Haq |
21 April 2021 |
Al-Haq International Law Online Summer School Program
31 May–12 June 2021
Al-Haq Center for Applied International Law is pleased to announce its Seventh International Law Summer School for professionals, legal researchers, post-graduates and academics in the fields of international law and human rights. The 2021 program will run entirely online through More...
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Crowborough letter |
By :HIC-HLRN |
25 February 2021 |
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Global Farmers Strike - First Wave |
By :Disha Ravi |
01 February 2021 |
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Blowing up Softly: A Climate Activism Guide |
By :Scott W. Stern, Los Angeles Times Review of Books |
05 January 2021 |
Sabotage Can Be Done Softly: On Andreas Malm’s “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”
One morning in the summer of 2007, five dozen SUV owners in an affluent part of Stockholm awoke to find their cars “reclining on the asphalt.” On their windshields, they found a leaflet. “We have deflated one More...
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New from HIC-HLRN: "A Pandemic of Violations" |
By :HIC-HLRN |
05 October 2020 |
On the occasion of World Habitat Day (5 October 2020) and “Urban October,” HIC-HLRN has produced its annual report from the HLRN Violation Database.
This year’s review of patterns and trends in housing and land rights violation around the world is dedicated to the theme: A Pandemic of Violations: Forced Evictions More...
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