Agriculture and food sovereignty
During the last year, rice has doubled in price in Bangladesh and food cost increased in 40% in Haiti and Egypt. The same situation has occurred in Côte d’Ivoire, Bolivia, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Pakistan, Mozambique, Peru, Yemen, Ethiopia… And this list could go on. Although, today the problem is not the lack of food; the difficulty is due to the impossibility of the poor people in Southern countries to afford the established prices. It is, therefore, a problem of food access.
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Gender-based violence
It is now fashionable in academic and activist circles to speak of transitional justice in normative, inflexible terms that suggest a utopian certainty. Nothing could be further from the truth. At the outset, we need to understand that transitional justice concepts are experimental –good experiments to be sure– but that they do not offer us tested panacea because they are essentially works in progress.
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Corporate accountability
Prepared in collaboration with 40 civil society organizations around the world, a collective report surveys 159 cases of alleged human rights abuses by, or involving, companies in order to illuminate the scope of these incidents, analyze existing gaps in the protection of human rights in the context of business, and offer recommendations to the United Nations on how to strengthen business accountability to human rights.
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International Criminal Court
On Monday 14 July 2008, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked the court to indict the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur. The request is a historic moment in international justice. But is it wise, and will it bring peace in Sudan nearer or destabilise the country further?
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Climate change
Significant differences emerged in the positions on climate change of the G8 and G5 leaders at the summit meetings held in Japan in the past few days. The differences also reflect the positions that the developed and developing countries in general have been making in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The leaders of the G5 (comprising China, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa) issued their own political declaration stressing that a shared vision including on long-term global goal for emissions reduction "must be based on an equitable burden sharing paradigm".
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The war on Lebanon
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, says in a new report to the Security Council that Israel continues to violate Resolution 1701. The resolution, which ended hostilities between Lebanon and Israel in 2006, demands that all Israeli military forces pull back to the UN-demarcated blue line. But Israel still controls territory north of the blue line, including part of the town of Ghajar. The Secretary General warns that Israel’s violation may escalate tensions between the two countries.
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Brazil: Increasing repression and criminalization against Landless People Movement (MST)
Zimbabwe alert: secretary General of MDC has been arrested
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Gender
- Mon Jul 21 2008
AWID new website
AWID has launched its new website that provides ccess to information in English, Spanish and French, articles on a wide range of women's human rights issues, in-depth analysis and practical tools to support women's rights activism.
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Association for Women`s Rights in Development (AWID)
Sexual diversity
- Wed Jul 23 2008
United Nations: defeat for discrimination, victory for inclusion
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This site presents a compilation of examples of how communities in different parts of the world are moving from failed privatised water management to successful publicly managed water and wastewater services.
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