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UN 2023 Water Conference Preparatory Meeting |
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By :UN |
| 17 October 2022 |
The Preparatory Meeting to the UN 2023 Water Conference, will be held on the 25 October 2022 at the UN HQ, in New York. The aim is to finalize the themes of the interactive dialogues and other outstanding organizational matters of the UN 2023 Water Conference. Details are available here,
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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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"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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Evolving ETOs |
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By :Joseph Schechla |
| 16 June 2022 |
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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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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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