ICJ: World Congress on Enforced Disappearance: preventing and ending impunity for a global scourge

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Feb
Geneva – On 15-16 January, The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) collaborated with the Convention against Enforced Disappearances Initiative (CEDI)* and other leading organizations to convene the first World Congress on Enforced Disappearances (WCED)
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CPJ: Special Report 2024 is deadliest year for journalists in CPJ history; almost 70% killed by Israel

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Feb
12 Feb, 2025: More journalists were killed in 2024 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 124 journalists and media workers were killed last year, nearly two-thirds of them Palestinians killed by Israel.
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SOMO: CSDDD Datahub reveals law covers fewer than 3,400 EU-based corporate groups

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Feb
Today, SOMO is launching the CSDDD Datahub – a database containing the corporate groups, subsidiaries, home countries, and sectors of the companies that will need to comply with the CSDDD when it enters into force. Analysis by SOMO shows that only 3,400 corporate groups in the EU will be in the scope of the new law. BY David Ollivier de Lethh
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WRI and University of Chicago Announce $100 Million Gift from Michael and Tanya Polsky to Accelerate the Global Energy Transition

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Feb
Gift establishes the WRI Polsky Center for the Global Energy Transition and the University of Chicago’s Polsky Energy Transition Leadership Academy to address urgent global energy challenges
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SDSN and SustainChain™ Partner to Scale Solutions and Learnings Across the Global Sustainability Ecosystem

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Feb
New York, USA (February 3, 2025) — The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) is proud to announce a new partnership with SustainChain™, a public service platform developed by the U.S. Coalition on Sustainability, aimed at scaling the solutions and actions necessary to accelerate progress toward sustainable development.
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Could we switch off a dangerous AI? (CFL)

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Feb
New research validates age-old concerns about the difficulty of constraining powerful AI systems. Published: December 27, 2024 Author: Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse
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CGD: Which Countries Are Most Exposed to US Aid Cuts; And What Other Providers Can Do

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Feb
by Ian Mitchell and Sam Hughes February 11, 2025
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SIPRI hosts expert workshop on military artificial intelligence

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Feb
On 3–4 February, SIPRI held an expert workshop in Stockholm on ‘Bias in Military AI and Compliance with International Humanitarian Law’.
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DRC: European football giants urged to end their ‘Visit Rwanda’ deals amid escalating humanitarian crisis

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Feb
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has urged Arsenal, Bayern Munich, and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) to end their sponsorship deals with Rwanda’s tourism campaign, Visit Rwanda.
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Zimbabwe Abolishes the Death Penalty

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 13Feb
On 31 December 2024, Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Death Penalty Abolition Bill into law.
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