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UN Conference Calls For Renewed, Bold Efforts To Make Gender Equality Commitments A Reality In Asia And The Pacific
The Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review opened today, bringing together over 1,200 delegates from governments, civil society and youth groups, the private sector and academia ...
Are We On The Wrong Side Of The #EndTB Track?
The Global Call to Find All TB to Stop TB was launched in 2023 by organisations and individuals who united to find all TB in people-centred and rights-based manner - and link all of them to care: ...
Bangladesh: End Rohingya Refugee Pushbacks
A 25-year-old Rohingya woman was among a group of 100 Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh to escape drone and artillery strikes on August 5 by the Arakan Army (AA)—an ethnic armed group fighting the ...
Executive Pay Increasingly Linked To Climate Goals But Often Ineffective
Linking climate-related metrics to executive pay is an important signal of intent, the report argues, allowing investors to make decisions based on how aligned a company’s leadership is to climate ...
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Comment By UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk On Abduction Of Ugandan Opposition Leader Kizza Besigye
I am shocked by the abduction of Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye on 16 November 2024 in Kenya and his forcible return to Uganda. After having been held in incommunicado detention, Besigye ...
Russia Must Urgently Grant Medical Release To Gravely Ill Human Rights Defender: UN Expert
GENEVA (22 November 2024) – Russian authorities should immediately release Crimean human rights defender Tofik Abdulhaziiev on medical grounds, before his health deteriorates any further, a UN expert* ...
Behind the Banner: Inside the hīkoi mō te Tiriti
In Selwyn Park, Pākehā couple Lucy Hoult and Matt Watson had made the one-hour drive from Mangawhai to attend. Both wore ...
Comment By UN Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani On Imminent Execution In Singapore
Bin Abdallah was sentenced to a mandatory death penalty in 2010 for trafficking some 57 grams of diamorphine. Multiple appeals, including on the basis of his intellectual disabilities, as well as a ...
Myanmar Amputees Under Siege By Junta Landmines, Harassment And Blockades Of Prosthetics, Say UN Experts
News that Myanmar has the world’s largest number of casualties from landmines and unexploded ordnance “is only part of the story of the military junta’s attacks on people with disabilities in Myanmar” ...
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ICHRP Condemns Killing Of Jerick Jugal In Northern Samar
According to Philippine rights group Karapatan (Alliance for Advancement of People’s Rights), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) killed Jerick Jugal, a resident of Barangay Sulitan, Catubig, ...
Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
Nika Dubrovsky is an artist, writer, and founder of the David Graeber Institute and the Museum of Care. This excerpt is adapted from Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber’s Cities Made Differently (MIT ...
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The biggest difference between Hīkoi mō te Tiriti and past hīkoi: More support from non-Māori
Analysis - Scenes that we saw play out over the past two weeks of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti have played out before in the history of ...