Martin Ennals Award 2023 2023 EDITION MEET THE 2023 LAUREATES

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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

International Disability Alliance: Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization, including in emergencies

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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).

ISS: Mobilizing for a just world

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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.

Book: The Keys to Democracy Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power by Maurice Pope

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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.

SAVE THE CHILDREN: 10 Trends That Are Driving Humanitarian Crises in 2023

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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.

UNDP'S BLOG: The value of strong multilateral cooperation in a fractured world

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By TSEGAYE LEMMA, Team Leader, Strategic Analysis and Corporate Engagement, Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy, UNDP and ULRIKA MODÉER, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy, UNDP

An Update on Bill C-22: Canada Disability Benefit

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The House of Commons returns on January 30th, and will sit until February 17th before it takes it's scheduled winter break. With such a small window, it is important that we advocate for Bill C-22 to be the first order of business when Parliament returns.

ActionAid responds to appointment of UAE COP28 President

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Commenting on the new appointment for President of COP28, Teresa Anderson, Global Lead on Climate Justice at ActionAid, said: “This appointment goes beyond putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.

Applications Open for 2023 UNU-IAS Master’s and Doctoral Programmes

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2023•01•17 The UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability is inviting applications for September 2023 admission to two postgraduate degree programmes: the Master of Science in Sustainability and the PhD in Sustainability Science. The application deadline is 17 February 2023.

Reuters Event: Shaping the Future of Business

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As the global economic outlook deteriorates, companies have to make tough choices between short-term business priorities and sustainable business practices. Sustainability is key for long-term profitability and action must accelerate on initiatives to secure the long-term survival of the business.

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