The World Bank's Bold New Vision

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Remarks by World Bank Group President Ajay Banga at the 2023 Annual Meetings Plenary

Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Update, Issue 46, October 2023

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Welcome to our Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Update -- highlighting a specific topic each quarter, as well as key developments in corporate legal accountability. The Corporate Legal Accountability hub on our website provides objective, concise information about lawsuits against companies in which human rights abuses are alleged .

GreenPeace: Drought in the Amazon is threatening people and biodiversity

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When people think about the Amazon, a picture of a tropical forest, teeming with life, with a network of majestic rivers might come to mind. But a historic drought in the region is putting the lives of hundreds of thousands, especially Indigenous People and traditional communities, at serious risk. By Diego Gonzaga 12 October 2023 • 4 min read

Evacuation orders for 22 hospitals across Gaza “a breach of international law,” ActionAid warns

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22 hospitals in the Gaza Strip have been instructed by Israeli military forces to evacuate, but for many people they remain the only safe place to shelter. Currently, 35,000 people are sheltering in Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa.

Caribbean Island States forge unified front ahead of COP28

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UN Climate Change News, 13 October 2023 -- The second Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) High-Level Dialogue on Climate Change was held in Grenada at the end of September, with leaders from the region coming together to chart a way forward on multiple climate challenges.

Open letter to world leaders calls for 5 actions to accelerate progress on gender equality in education

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From Global Partnership for Education, GPE: At the Women Deliver 2023 Conference, participants at the Education Zone were asked to share messages to world leaders. These messages have been collated and summarized in the open letter below, reflecting the priorities of gender equality stakeholders and conference participants from across the world.

INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS

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The IICI is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to the capacity-building and support of international criminal and human rights investigators and related professionals in the investigation of war crimes, genocide crimes against humanity and serious human rights violations, and to strengthening international investigation best practices and standards.

Hangzhou Asian Para Games is coming!!!!

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The flame for Hangzhou Asian Para Games was lit in Guangzhou City, south China's Guangdong Province, on October 12, in honor of the host city of the inaugural Asian Para Games in 2010.

One year on: Nestlé, Danone and others yet to make adequate progress on plastic pollution

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Nine Big Food corporations served notice last year are still failing to tackle plastic pollution. New report analyses how the companies are living up to their duties under the French ‘Duty of Vigilance’ law. None of the companies have a clear ‘deplastification’ trajectory for moving away from the single-use plastic business model.

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