Help Forum Raise Up Youth Voice Empowering Young People at IVCO 2023

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IAVE is helping our partners at Forum get the word out with a special youth-focused update for their 2023 International Volunteering Cooperation Organisations (IVCO) conference. With IAVE's heavy focus on youth volunteering over the last few years, we're especially excited to share that the IVCO's theme this year is A New Generation of Volunteers as Changemakers.

IVCO 2023 “A New Generation of Volunteers as Changemakers: Deadlines extended for IVCO 2023

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Together with IVCO hosts Yayasan Sukarelawan Siswa (YSS), we have some great news to share, as we are extending deadlines to allow you to grab our special ticket offers, including the Early Bird rate and special rates for young people and low-income organisations.

Four African Countries Ramp Up Ambition for Transition to a Low-Carbon Future

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UN Climate Change News, 25 July 2023 - Four developing countries in Africa – the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Niger, and Tunisia – have recently showcased their commitment to ambitious climate action. During UN Climate Change’s 28th round of technical analysis to review the transparency of reporting by developing countries, these four nations showed to have made significant stride

Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk after Ghana’s Parliament votes to abolish death penalty 26 July 2023

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By amending the Criminal Offences Act, Ghana will become the 29th African country to abolish the death penalty, and the 124th worldwide, strengthening the growing global movement to make the death penalty a thing of the past.

Governments Commit to Increase Climate Finance through 2025

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UN Climate Change News, 13 July 2023 - A key report presented last month at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn highlighted the commitment of developed countries to the goal of jointly mobilizing USD 100 billion in climate finance per year through to 2025.

A disaster emergency is underway in Asia and the Pacific as risks outpace resilience, warns new UN study

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The Asia-Pacific region has a narrow window to increase its resilience and protect its hard-won development gains from the socioeconomic impacts of climate change, according to the latest report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). In the absence of immediate action, temperature rises of 1.5°C and 2°C will cause disaster risk to outpace resilience

Wood Is Not the Climate-friendly Building Material Some Claim it to Be (World Resources Institute)

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"n our report, The Global Land Squeeze: Managing Growing Competition for Land, we do find that using wood to replace concrete and steel could have lower emissions under certain conditions, but they’re challenging to achieve. And currently, the fast-growing plantations that could supply wood in these conditions are already needed to meet other growing demands for wood.:

Social Institutions & Gender Index

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Gender equality in times of crisis SIGI 2023 Global report (OECD). Between 2019 and 2023, more and more countries around the world have tackled discriminatory social institutions, notably through legal reforms that protect women’s rights and grant them equal opportunities.

Singapore: Stop two imminent and unlawful executions for drug trafficking (Amnesty International)

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"“We renew our call on governments, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) to increase their pressure on Singapore so that all executions end and drug control policies become rooted in the promotion and protection of human rights".

Halt the executions of Aziz and Saridewi

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This week Singapore intends to execute Mohd Aziz bin Hussain, a 56-year-old Singaporean Malay man convicted of trafficking approximately 50g of diamorphine (heroin) and Saridewi binte Djamani, a 45-year-old Singaporean woman convicted of trafficking approximately 30g of diamorphine (heroin).

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