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Over 340 NGOs Address Loss & Damage Fund Board |
By :hlrn |
29 April 2024 |
The first meeting of the Board of the new Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) will take place from 30 April to 2 May 2024 at Abu Dhabi Energy Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Ahead of that meeting, over 340 organizations around the world have addressed the Board to urge that it establish procedures for meaningful More...
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New Report: Counting Costs, Loss & Damage |
By :HIC-HLRN |
16 February 2024 |
On the occasion of World Habitat Day 2023, this newreport from HLRN’s Violation Database (VDB) Counting Costs, Loss & Damage: Quantifying Impacts of Habitat-related Human Rights Violations amid Environmental Hazards and Climate-change selects cases of housing and land rights violations from HLRN’s 2022 report, In Pursuit of Climate Justice, to focus More...
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Climate Finance in Egypt (matrix) |
By :Shrouk Diaa and Joseph Schechla |
10 March 2023 |
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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, More...
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
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 More...
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Understanding Human Rights ETOs |
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 More...
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Responsibility for Single-use Plastic |
By :Michael Corkery and Somini Sengupta, The New York Times |
18 May 2021 |
Here Is Who’s Behind the Global Surge in Single-Use Plastic
A new report shows that a surprisingly small number of big companies and banks are behind the manufacturing and financing of much of the world’s single-use plastic.
The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely seen More...
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Arab CSO Forum on sustainable development |
By :HIC-HLRN |
23 March 2021 |
We invite you to attend the regional meeting of civil society organizations on #sustainable development in the Arab region. Representatives of civil society and experts in Arab countries will participate in the meeting to discuss efforts to achieve sustainable development in the Arab region and the challenges it faces.
The "regional More...
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"A Pandemic of Violations" |
By :HIC-HLRN |
05 October 2020 |
On the occasion of World Habitat Day (5 October 2020) and “Urban October,” HIC-HLRN has produced its annual report from the HLRN Violation Database.
This year’s review of patterns and trends in housing and land rights violation around the world is dedicated to the theme: A Pandemic of Violations: Forced Evictions More...
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New from HIC-HLRN: “A Pandemic of Violations” |
By :HIC-HLRN |
05 October 2020 |
On the occasion of World Habitat Day (5 October 2020) and “Urban October,” HIC-HLRN has produced its annual report from the HLRN Violation Database.
This year’s review of patterns and trends in housing and land rights violation around the world is dedicated to the theme: A Pandemic of Violations: Forced Evictions More...
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