AVPN Global Leadership Academy Bangkok Workshop

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AVPN Global Leadership Academy (GLA) is thrilled to invite you to our upcoming leadership workshop on March 17 – March 19 in Bangkok, Thailand.

PEOPLE POWERED: Need one-on-one support running a participatory program? Apply for mentorship!

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We know that running citizenship engagement and participatory programs come with various challenges. But there’s no need to face it alone. Apply for expert mentoring support!

Building Climate Expertise: Fellowship Programme Empowers Professionals from SIDS and LDCs

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UN Climate Change News, 26 February 2025 – UN Climate Change's Fellowship Programme equips mid-career professionals from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) with hands-on experience and specialized training. Thanks to new funding from Portugal and Italy, more professionals can now contribute to global climate action while enhancing their expertise.

Countries to Resume Crucial Biodiversity Discussions in Rome, 25-27 February 2025

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UN CBD COP 16 to reconvene at UN Food and Agriculture Organization Headquarters. Parties will seek consensus on Cali’s important unfinished business, including resource mobilization, financial mechanism, and KMGBF monitoring and planning.

Unveiling the official logo for International Volunteer Year 2026

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More than five hundred designs from around the globe competed for the honour of becoming the official logo for the International Volunteer Year 2026. This logo competition, held from 5 December 2024 to 12 January 2025, sought to find a design that would perfectly align with United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/78/127 and serve as the ideal emblem for IVY 2026.

161 states vote against the Killer machines at the UN General Assembly

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Resounding support for the second UNGA resolution on autonomous weapons expands discussions in 2025, mandating talks in New York including all states for the first time.

IDS Event: Making gains for gender justice: Lessons from women’s movements in South Asia

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6 March 2025 12:00–13:30 Institute of Development Studies IDS Convening Space and online on Zoom. In the face of escalating attacks on women’s rights globally, what is it that feminists can learn from women’s struggles in South Asia?

OXFAM: In January, billionaires amassed more wealth than the poorest third of humanity owns

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Published: 24th February 2025 Billionaire wealth surged by over $300 billion in the first month of the year. It would take 15 million workers an entire year to make as much money. Since G20 Finance Ministers agreed to work together to effectively tax the super-rich in July 2024, billionaires have pocketed over $1 trillion in new wealth.

Almost 9 in 10 going all day without eating as hunger in Haiti reaches record high

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ActionAid survey finds 99% of families are going without meals – sometimes for days at a time – because they can’t afford to buy food. 88% of households said a family member had gone all day without food in the past month. Some families are surviving on just over US$1 worth of food per person for an entire month.

Breast cancer cases projected to rise by nearly 40 per cent by 2050, WHO warns

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24 February 2025 Health Breast cancer cases are expected to increase by 38 percent globally by 2050, with annual deaths from the disease projected to rise by 68 percent, according to a new report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a specialised branch of the World Health Organization (WHO).

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