Asia-Pacific Regional Review of the Istanbul Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries

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The Asia-Pacific Regional Review is important as 12 out of 46 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are located in the region. They are making considerable progress in their socio-economic development, particularly in reducing income poverty and investing in human resources and infrastructure, enabling most of the countries of this region to fulfill the criteria for graduation.

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Nepal: Stop Stalling Enforced Disappearance Inquiries

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The government of Nepal should promptly enforce Supreme Court rulings and permit the regular courts to try cases of enforced disappearance and other grave international crimes, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said today.

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All schools in Europe & Central Asia should remain open and made safer from COVID-19, say WHO and UNICEF

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As millions of school children return to school across the European Region where the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is dominant, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and UNICEF ECARO call for schools to stay open

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International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 30 August

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More than a human rights violation against an individual Enforced disappearance has frequently been used as a strategy to spread terror within the society. The feeling of insecurity generated by this practice is not limited to the close relatives of the disappeared, but also affects their communities and society as a whole.

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The Climate Connection, the British Council

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The Climate Connection brings people around the world together to meet the challenges of climate change. Through arts and culture, education and the English language, it is about ideas, innovation and real change.

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Era of leaded petrol over, eliminating a major threat to human and planetary health

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Official end of use of leaded petrol will prevent more than 1.2 million premature deaths and save USD 2.45 trillion a year The end of leaded petrol follows a 19-year campaign led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners UNEP urges countries to work towards zero emissions vehicles to further address air pollution and climate change

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HOW TO BE RESILIENT: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED AFTER A YEAR OF MASSIVE TRANSITION (CANADA)

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Join us on August 31st, 2021 at 1pm ET to hear six incredible changemakers share unique stories and perspectives on resilience. Together, they will reflect on how social change has changed — and how it hasn’t — over the past 16 months since the pandemic began, and what the fall and winter months hold for Canada’s social impact world.

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