EARTH RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL: WORLD BANK GROUP INSTITUTION AGREES TO SETTLE CASE ALLEGING IT ABETTED MURDER

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 19Dec
The International Finance Corporation’s settlement agreement is the first time any international financial institution has agreed to pay to end a lawsuit brought by an injured community.
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New Report Highlights the Urgent Need to Include Persons with Disabilities in National Climate Policies

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 19Dec
Dubai, UAE – Today, the Disability Inclusive Climate Action Research Program at McGill University and the International Disability Alliance (IDA) released the 2023 edition of their report on Disability Inclusion in Domestic Climate Policies.
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FORD FOUNDATION: Our Support for Philanthropic Freedom 13 DECEMBER 2023

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 19Dec
Like the Fearless Fund, the Ford Foundation is working to address the many kinds and categories of inequality that have informed the American experience from the very beginning, despite the democratic aspirations imbued into our founding charters of freedom.
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Forum Invites Expressions of Interest to Host IVCO 2025 or IVCO 2026

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 19Dec
NOVEMBER 9, 2023 Following the wonderful success of IVCO 2023 in Malaysia hosted by Yayasan Sukarelawan Siswa, Forum is now inviting expressions of interest from its members to host IVCO 2025 or IVCO 2026.
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Undoing environmental wrongs through human rights

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Dec
UNEP pledges to advance the world’s newest right: the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Because the environment makes our lives and wellbeing possible. Underpins sustainable development. And enables the fulfilment of many other rights.
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Human Rights 75 – Meet the Winners!

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Dec
Two individuals, two organizations and a global coalition of civil society organization, indigenous peoples and other communities are the winners of the 2023 Human Rights Prize.
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New EU business rules spare fossil fuel financiers and sectors rife with labour exploitation

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Dec
Published: 14th December The EU agreed on a new European law to make companies accountable for the damage they cause to people and the planet - the Corporate Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
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Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 18Dec
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, David R. Boyd, chronicles the compelling evidence that a secretive international arbitration process called investor-State dispute settlement has become a major obstacle to the urgent actions needed to address the planetary environm
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Salil Tripathi on why the Universal Declaration of Human Rights still matters, 75 years later

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Dec
Salil Tripathi delivers opening remarks at IHRB's event: From 'Small Spaces to New Frontiers' – an event marking 75 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York, on December 11 2023.
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Story of Seoul- a decade of social innovation impact

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 15Dec
Seoul has become a leading global example of a city truly designed around its citizens. Seoul City’s citizen-centred policy has touched so many parts of the city, but it is a complex story and it is not easy to tell. SIX has been part of Seoul’s journey from the beginning in 2007 and has contributed to social innovation ecosystem building in Seoul in multiple ways, working closely with local civil
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