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Returning Forced Evictions to the Development Agenda |
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By :Joseph Schechla, HIC-HLRN |
| 10 April 2026 |
Eviction, forced displacement, and tenure insecurity were actively discussed during the negotiations of the 2030 Agenda, but they were not codified explicitly in SDG 11. Instead, they were either excluded, subsumed, diluted, and redistributed across broader targets (especially 1.4 and 11.1) and other SDGs due to political, technical, and institutional
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European Energy & Ag Investments May Harm MENA Environment & Society |
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By :Greenpeace MENA |
| 11 March 2025 |
European investments in energy and agriculture in the region may worsen environmental and social harm. Thus reveals a new report by Greenpeace MENA and the MENAFem Movement for Economic, Development, and Ecological Justice.
The report reveals how European investments in Morocco and Egypt’s oil, gas, renewable energy, green hydrogen, and agriculture
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CoP28 Delivers: What, Who and How They’re Pledging |
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By :Reuters |
| 06 December 2023 |
Who is pledging climate finance at COP28, and how much?
At this year`s U.N. climate summit, countries, development institutions and businesses are pledging more money for everything from the energy transition to health care initiatives, technology investments, disaster relief and more.
Hosts the United Arab Emirates said more than $83 billion had been
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Global Letter to UN & World Bank: Set Serious Goals to Combat Inequality |
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By :Equals Hope |
| 17 July 2023 |
Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General and President of the World Bank-Setting Serious Goals to Combat Inequality
17 July 2023
Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres and President of the World Bank Ajay Banga,
RE: Setting serious goals to combat inequality
As a group of economists and leaders in the fight
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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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Earth Day Workshop: Green Transition in Sudan |
| 24 April 2022 |
The challenges of the green transition in Sudan Who should fill the gap and how? Public workshop on the occasion of Earth Day 2022, in cooperation between Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition and GoGreen Sudan. Sudan is going through difficult transitional conditions,
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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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Conflict, Occupation, War amid Global Cease-fire |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 18 October 2021 |
HLRN has produced a new publication on the occasion of World Human Rights Habitat Day 2021 and the ensuing month of related activities. The study Conflict, Occupation and War disaggregates data from the HLRN Violation Database to focus on the gross violations of the human rights to adequate housing and
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Port Sudan in a Geopolitical Scramble |
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By :Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed, Sudan blog |
| 31 July 2021 |
Port Sudan caught in the international race to control the Red Sea region
The whole world is wrangling for control over the Red Sea region. The United Arab Emirates are playing all of their cards to secure control over the trade routes. And while Sudan is increasingly turning to Europe for
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