Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk after Ghana’s Parliament votes to abolish death penalty 26 July 2023

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 27Jul
By amending the Criminal Offences Act, Ghana will become the 29th African country to abolish the death penalty, and the 124th worldwide, strengthening the growing global movement to make the death penalty a thing of the past.
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Governments Commit to Increase Climate Finance through 2025

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 27Jul
UN Climate Change News, 13 July 2023 - A key report presented last month at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn highlighted the commitment of developed countries to the goal of jointly mobilizing USD 100 billion in climate finance per year through to 2025.
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A disaster emergency is underway in Asia and the Pacific as risks outpace resilience, warns new UN study

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 27Jul
The Asia-Pacific region has a narrow window to increase its resilience and protect its hard-won development gains from the socioeconomic impacts of climate change, according to the latest report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). In the absence of immediate action, temperature rises of 1.5°C and 2°C will cause disaster risk to outpace resilience
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Wood Is Not the Climate-friendly Building Material Some Claim it to Be (World Resources Institute)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 27Jul
"n our report, The Global Land Squeeze: Managing Growing Competition for Land, we do find that using wood to replace concrete and steel could have lower emissions under certain conditions, but they’re challenging to achieve. And currently, the fast-growing plantations that could supply wood in these conditions are already needed to meet other growing demands for wood.:
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Social Institutions & Gender Index

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 26Jul
Gender equality in times of crisis SIGI 2023 Global report (OECD). Between 2019 and 2023, more and more countries around the world have tackled discriminatory social institutions, notably through legal reforms that protect women’s rights and grant them equal opportunities.
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Singapore: Stop two imminent and unlawful executions for drug trafficking (Amnesty International)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 26Jul
"“We renew our call on governments, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) to increase their pressure on Singapore so that all executions end and drug control policies become rooted in the promotion and protection of human rights".
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Halt the executions of Aziz and Saridewi

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 26Jul
This week Singapore intends to execute Mohd Aziz bin Hussain, a 56-year-old Singaporean Malay man convicted of trafficking approximately 50g of diamorphine (heroin) and Saridewi binte Djamani, a 45-year-old Singaporean woman convicted of trafficking approximately 30g of diamorphine (heroin).
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HLPF Debriefing

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 26Jul
The SDG Lab, CEPEI, and IISD held a panel discussion and Q&A session after the 2023 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) closed, with experts providing a brief snapshot of the proceedings at the 2023 HLPF, and their linkages to September’s SDG Summit and 2024 Summit of the Future
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The UN Food Systems Summit+2 Stocktaking Moment opens at FAO with a call to accelerate action

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 25Jul
FAO Director-General addresses the opening ceremony along with UN Secretary-General and Italian Prime Minister
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Developing data-driven insights for cities

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 25Jul
New York City (24 July 2023) – Economist Impact and UN-Habitat announce the beginning of a multi-year partnership to elevate the importance of sustainable urban development on the global agenda. As its foundation, the program will include the development of an Urban Performance Index based on the UN’s Global Urban Monitoring Framework (UMF).
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