As the pace of urbanization quickens in Asia-Pacific, so too does the threat of urban food insecurity – UN agencies report

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 26Jan
In 2021, 396 million people in the region were undernourished and an estimated 1.05 billion people suffered from moderate or severe food insecurity.
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ASIA FOUNDATION: Announcing the 2023 LeadNext Fellows: Ambassadors for a Global Future

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 25Jan
San Francisco, January 10, 2023 — The Asia Foundation is pleased to announce the 2023 LeadNext Fellows: Ambassadors for a Global Future class.
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Deadly year for journalists as killings rose sharply in 2022

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 25Jan
The year 2022 was deadly for members of the press. At least 67 journalists and media workers were killed during the year–the highest number since 2018 and an almost 50% increase from 2021, the Committee to Protect Journalists found. The rise was driven by a high number of journalist deaths covering the Ukraine war and a sharp rise in killings in Latin America.
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Eleos Justice Event: Seminar: In Conversation with Kirsten Han, Singaporean Journalist

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 24Jan
The talk program will happen on Wednesday 15 February 2023 TIME 17:00 - 18:00 AEDT. Kirsten Han is a journalist and anti-death penalty activist in Singapore.
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Education Out Loud: Call for expression of interest for regional learning partners

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 24Jan
Education Out Loud is the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) fund for advocacy and social accountability. It supports civil society to be active and influential actors in shaping education policy and implementation to meet the needs of communities, especially of marginalized people – and to ensure the right to quality education for all in line with SDG 4.
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Martin Ennals Award 2023 2023 EDITION MEET THE 2023 LAUREATES

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 24Jan
We are thrilled to announce three new Martin Ennals Award Laureates 2023! Watch them take questions from the press at the Club Suisse de la Presse, livestreamed on February 14th, 2023 from 12h CET
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International Disability Alliance: Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization, including in emergencies

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 23Jan
In September 2022, at the closing of its 27th session, the CRPD Committee announced the adoption of the Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization, including in emergencies (DI Guidelines), designed to complement General Comment No. 5 on Article 19 (Living independently and being included in the community) and the Guidelines on Article 14 (Liberty and security of person).
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ISS: Mobilizing for a just world

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 23Jan
Launching the Legal Mobilization Platform. The launch event, 'Mobilizing for a Just World', provided a sneak peek into the platform's future activities which will involve, at their core, efforts to unite people in their efforts to mobilize for a world of socio-economic, climate and racial justice.
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Book: The Keys to Democracy Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power by Maurice Pope

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 23Jan
In this distillation of a lifetime's thinking about democracy, Maurice Pope presents a new model of governance that replaces elected politicians with assemblies selected by lot. The re-introduction of sortition, he believes, offers a way out of gridlock, apathy, alienation and polarisation by giving citizens back their voice.
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SAVE THE CHILDREN: 10 Trends That Are Driving Humanitarian Crises in 2023

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 20Jan
Sadly, these 10 global trends that are driving the greatest humanitarian needs for children in 2023—conflict, climate, cost-of-living—are all quite familiar. However, what is becoming clear is the complex relationships between these topics and how they collide and compound one another to create crises that are more frequent, more complex, more severe, and harder to resolve.
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