CSW69: A Pivotal Moment for Women’s Rights Amid Growing Global Challenges

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 19Mar
The 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women marks important milestones, with the 80th UN anniversary and the 30th Beijing Platform anniversary, amid growing threats to women's rights.
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The DNA of organised crime is changing – and so is the threat to Europe

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 19Mar
Europol’s EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (EU-SOCTA) 2025, published today, reveals how the very DNA of crime is shifting – reshaping the tactics, tools and structures employed by criminal networks.
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V-Dem Institute: Restrictions to freedom of expression as democracy loses ground

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 19Mar
Democratic countries are now in the minority, freedom of expression is declining, and high levels of disinformation and polarization fuel democratic backsliding. This, and much more, is reported in the latest Democracy Report from the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg.
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A Moment securing the survival of independent journalism of Truth

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Mar
The International Fund will raise $150 million to help secure the future of independent journalism
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US EPA Zeldin’s Illegal Attacks on Environmental Protections Must Be Challenged

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Mar
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2025—US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Zeldin has proposed the wholesale dismantling of environmental protections in America through regulatory rollbacks that would increase pollution and endanger people and the planet. But let’s be clear: making pronouncements does not change the law or erase the rules on the books.
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US Agency for Global Media shutdown: RSF warns of the dangers facing nine journalists detained abroad

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Mar
Following the Trump administration’s orders to dismantle the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is sounding the alarm over the risks facing USAGM staffers around the world, including nine journalists currently imprisoned abroad for their work.
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sportanddev: Critical for Sport Impact Fund and coalition to involve NGOs and grassroot actors

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Mar
At the 2025 Finance in Common Summit (FiCS), sportanddev urged the coalition of actors scaling sport for development to ensure information and opportunity flows down to civil society.
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2025 Pacific Update

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Mar
3-5 June 2025 | Suva, Fiji Call for papers and panels now open! Co-hosted by the Development Policy Centre and the University of the South Pacific’s School of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Pacific Update is the premier forum for discussion of economic, social, political and environmental issues in the region. Day Three will focus on migration and labour mobility.
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SIPRI holds side event at UN expert meeting on autonomous weapon systems

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Mar
On 5 March, SIPRI held a side event at the first 2025 session of the Group of Governmental Experts related to emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapon systems. This session—organized by the 2024 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)—took place in Geneva on 3–7 March.
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Global Witness: Missing voices The violent erasure of land and environmental defenders

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Mar
Global Witness in their annual report released last September 10th documented 25 environmental defenders killed in Asia in 2023. But apart from that, as defenders and their loved ones are being silenced, many are also victims of enforced disappearances.
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