Themes addressed by the UN System: Human rights and humanitarian aid Global security Human development (Health, Education, Labor, etc.). Sustainable Development (Environment and climate change). International cooperation and integration; Finance sector development; ...
gram have all disregarded or minimized gender-specific abuses.19 The same is true for theHuman 7 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, for example, does not address whetherrape travel within a country or to secure pass- ports have not been addressed as violationsBrody, Reed...
Those of us that study human overshoot know that 8 billion people depend for survival on rapidly depleting non-renewable, non-substitutable resources, and that the only reason our global growth dependent system functions today is that we deny limits to growth by accelerating the use of unrepayable...
This year, 2024, marks the 9th anniversary of the “709” crackdown on China’s human rights lawyers and rights activists that began in the summer of 2015. Since then, the Chinese authorities’ repression of these lawyers has continued nonstop, with harassment and restrictions extending to their...
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Maulik sees the pandemic as a ‘game changer’ kickstarting this new form of engagement: ‘The UN Network was new. The pandemic ushered a significant shift in the worlds’ thinking on human mobility and a call to the UN system to do things differently. The Network took that opportunity –...
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Some 125 women and girls were raped between Nov. 19-29 along Nhialdiu, Guit and Bentiu road and some 21 survivors are helping UN human rights investigators to identify their tormentors. "Our human rights team has launched investigation as we speak getting victim and witness testimonies and worki...
virus that creates great obstacles in their bright threshold into the palace of a totally ill-freeworld. However, it still poses threat to the normal life of human beings. According to UNAIDS, 38.1 million people have become infectedwith HIVand 25.3 million people havedied of AIDS-related ...
relating to business and human rights both within and outside the UN system. For example, the strategic links between the fund and the UN Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights should be explored, as well as the potential for the fund to inform the work of the UN Global Compact,...