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.

Time is running out for children in Gaza—UNICEF

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UNICEF calls for an immediate humanitarian pause and safe access to scale and sustain lifesaving services for children

Decentralised Governance

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Crafting Effective Democracies Around the World Jean-Paul Faguet, Sarmistha Pal (eds.)

LSE: Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice, 2023-2024

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The Cutting Edge Issues in Development series is back, and this year we have another fantastic line up of guest speakers from around the world working in the field of International Development.

PROSPER.NET SUSTAINABILITY FORUM, October 21, 2023

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UNU-IAS will co-organise the ProSPER.Net Sustainability Forum as part of the UN Weeks at Sophia University. Under the theme 'Exploring the New Direction of Equity and Inclusion towards Transforming Education', the event will focus on the ramifications of the COVID-19 crisis on the provision of inclusive and equitable quality education, particularly its impact on vulnerable populations.

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