REPORT LAUNCH: Freedom in the World 2024

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 08Feb
Date February 29, 2024 – 10:30AM – 12:00PM EST. Join us for the launch of Freedom in the World 2024: The Mounting Damage of Flawed Elections and Armed Conflict, Freedom House's flagship report which has been tracking global trends in political rights and civil liberties annually since 1973.
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Malaysian Youth Build Capacity on Hate Speech and Atrocity Prevention

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 08Feb
Between August 24 and 27, 2023, the Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights (MCCHR) conducted a hate speech training workshop aimed at Malaysian youth. This workshop was an expansion of the program initiated in 2021
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COLLECTIVE IMPACT FORUM: Exploring the Four Voices of Design to Solve Complex Problems

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 08Feb
In this new podcast discussion, we explore the approach of human-centered design and how it can be used to both discover and uplift perspectives to help find community-focused solutions.
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COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in the United States of America

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 08Feb
The Committee of Ministers deplores the execution on 25 January in the State of Alabama of Mr Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was already subject to a failed execution in 2022.
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Widening inequalities, slow climate action among factors pushing region further away from sustainable development targets

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07Feb
The latest edition of the Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report, set to be launched next week, provides a sobering reminder of the extraordinary collective effort still needed to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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EU: Over 260 business & human rights practitioners, lawyers and academics join call to support the CSDDD

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07Feb
Ahead of the EU Council’s vote on the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive on February 9th, over 260 business and human rights practitioners joined a call to support the CSDDD.
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UN Expert Slams Philippines ‘Red-Tagging’

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07Feb
Irene Khan, the United Nations expert on freedom of expression, concluded her 10-day visit to the Philippines on February 2 by urging President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to denounce the practice of “red-tagging” and disband the National Task Force on Local Communist Armed Conflict.
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WORLD RESTORATION FLAGSHIPS

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07Feb
On 13 February - in the lead-up to the sixth UN Environment Assembly - the UN will announce seven new World Restoration Flagships. Stay tuned! Countries have already promised to restore 1 billion hectares – an area larger than China – as part of international climate, nature, and land goals. However, little is known about the progress or quality of this restoration.
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The Garment Me Too campaign is a transformative vision of work that centers the dignity and economic security of women workers.

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07Feb
The purpose of the campaign is to target the supply chains of garment apparel brands in order to bring brands and their suppliers to the table with supplier unions to bargain and create changes on production lines at the industrial level as well as along global supply chains.
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SEN. CARDIN INTRODUCES LANDMARK HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS LEGISLATION THAT WILL HELP COUNTER AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07Feb
January 31, Washington, D.C.–Today, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the “Human Rights Defenders Protection Act of 2024.” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) also introduced the bill in the House of Representatives. If passed, this legislation would strengthen the U.S. government’s ability to protect civil society activists, community leaders, journalists
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