Jared Kushner’s Firm to Pay $3.25M for Deceiving & Cheating Tenants in Baltimore’s “Kushnerville” Guest: Alec MacGillis, reporter for ProPublica. A property management company partly owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has agreed to pay a
Published : 27 September 2022The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights concludes Morocco`s occupation of Western Sahara to be a serious violation of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence. On 22 September 2022, the African Court on
Published : 26 September 2022TotalEnergies walks a tightrope as fresh hurdles threaten to delay pipeline project International oil major TotalEnergies will on October 10 answer to charges of environmental and human rights abuse before the European Union parliament in Brussels
Published : 25 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
Published : 24 September 2022Housing 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
Published : 23 September 2022Industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa is mainly controlled by five companies: Socfin, Wilmar, Olam, Siat, and Straight KKM (former Feronia). These multinationals control an estimated 67 per cent of the industrial
Published : 12 September 2022Volker Türk to be appointed next UN High Commissioner for Human Rights after opaque nomination process A week after the end of Michelle Bachelet’s term, States in New York were notified late last night that Secretary-General
Published : 08 September 2022‘Bengaluru’s flood devastation is the tyranny of small decisions’: Water expert Vishwanath S The waterlogging has not been caused by the heavy rain but by bad planning, he says. On Tuesday morning, Gaurav Munjal, the chief executive
Published : 06 September 2022UN Human Rights Office issues assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang, China GENEVA—The UN Human Rights Office today issued an assessment of human rights concerns in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The assessment was initiated following
Published : 31 August 2022