UNV: Executive Coordinator presents UNV 2023 results at the Executive Board

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06 June 2024 New York. Toily Kurbanov, Executive Coordinator of United Nations Volunteers (UNV) presented the 2023 Annual Report of the Administrator at the Executive Board in New York on 6 June 2024. The Executive Board consists of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).

OXFAM: Millions of migrant farm workers exploited in Europe’s fields, says Oxfam

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Published: 4th June 2024 Approximately 1 in 4 workers in Europe’s agriculture sector are migrants. Migrant workers face violence, long working hours, and routine underpayment. The new EU supply chains law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, is a tool to combat this exploitation.

Inclusive democracy learnings & innovations: Webinar highlights

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As participatory and deliberative programs continue to expand, we need to ask the questions: how effective are they at truly empowering marginalized communities, the ones who have the biggest needs and have the most to gain from these processes? How can we ensure representative participation when structural barriers such as power dynamics hinder effective and meaningful involvement?

Conflict Trends: A Global Overview, 1946–2023

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This PRIO Paper examines global conflict trends between 1946 and 2023 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2023, 59 state-based conflicts were recorded in 34 countries, the highest number of conflicts registered since 1946.

OSLO FREEDOM FORUM 2024

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The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is an international human rights conference series hosted and produced by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF).

ESTABLISHING EFFECTIVE HELPDESKS ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

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Drawing from the research brief Parameters for a Global Helpdesk on Business and Human Rights published by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Geneva office, this panel discussion – co-organised by the Geneva Human Rights Platform, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Geneva office, and OHCHR - aims to discuss how to establish effective helpde

Respect, protect, and fulfill the right to bodily autonomy! Ending forced sterilization of women and girls with disabilities

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This paper compiles expert and internationally agreed language on forced sterilization, highlighting that an eliminating forced sterilization is a human rights obligation, a moral imperative, and a shared global political commitment.

Critical minerals and great power competition: Interactions and implications

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13 June 2024 14:00 - 16:00 This SIPRI webinar centres on mineral resource competition. With a focus on the policies of China, the European Union, Russia and the United States, the event will unpack varying strategies towards and implications associated with this competition.

UNU-IAS Launches E-learning Course on Net Zero

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The free course introduces key concepts of climate science and practical steps that individuals can take for climate action. Date Published 7 Jun 2024

Report: Development finance institutions should strengthen their human rights risk management systems for intermediated finance

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11 April 2024 A report by the Danish Institute for Human Rights explains why development finance institutions should strengthen their human rights risk management systems for intermediated finance.

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