EU: Over 260 business & human rights practitioners, lawyers and academics join call to support the CSDDD

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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.

UN Expert Slams Philippines ‘Red-Tagging’

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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.

WORLD RESTORATION FLAGSHIPS

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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.

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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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.

SEN. CARDIN INTRODUCES LANDMARK HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS LEGISLATION THAT WILL HELP COUNTER AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS

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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

THREE YEARS AFTER MYANMAR’S MILITARY COUP BEGAN, CHEVRON CONTINUES TO FUND THE ILLEGAL JUNTA

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February 1, 2024, Washington, D.C.–Today marks three years since the Myanmar (Burma) military junta launched its brutal coup, committing well-documented war crimes and crimes against humanity and shattering the country’s fragile democratic transition. The coup has not been successful.

Apply now: PRIO Peace Research Course at the International Summer School

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PRIO's International Summer School (ISS) is now opening for applications with deadline 15 February (scholarship application) and 1 March (self-financed).

Strider Education Foundation Launches Inclusive Biking Program

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A South Dakota, US-based nonprofit aspires to revolutionize the way society approaches inclusivity in physical activity and health equity. With a belief that everyone regardless of age, physical fitness or intellectual background should be able to access physical activity, the Strider Education Foundation is a national movement to ensure that “All Kids Bike.”

JFM WELCOMES NEW SANCTIONS ON THE ILLEGAL MYANMAR JUNTA AND BUSINESSES ON THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF FAILED COUP ATTEMPT

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Justice For Myanmar welcomes the latest sanctions on the illegal Myanmar junta and its business associates, three years after the military launched a coup attempt that has failed because of the courageous mass resistance of Myanmar people.

When genocide is reduced to a war of emotions

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Posted on ISS blog BlISS by Dina Zbeidy

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