Webinar: Upping the game - how can sport better respond to forced displacement?

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Join sportanddev and the Sport for Refugees coalition for an interactive webinar on how sport can better respond to crises that cause forced displacement. 1 December 2022: 13:00-14:30 Central European Time

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Gender-related killings of women and girls (femicide/feminicide)

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Global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls in the private sphere in 2021 Improving data to improve responses. This is a report jointly produced by UN Women and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

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[Joint Press Release] India: UN body petitioned over ongoing detention of prominent Kashmiri human rights defender (FORUM ASIA)

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Paris-Geneva, November 22, 2022 – On the first-year anniversary of prominent Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez’s arrest and detention, four human rights organisations have submitted a complaint to the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

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From allyship to action: how men can step up to end violence against women (ODI event)

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Convened in the lead up to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, this ODI and ALIGN event will deepen conversations around men's role in driving change. To move the conversation along from men expressing public outrage to men taking action, this discussion will delve into the experiences of men who already lead, speak out and design policy against male violence.

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Asia Foundation, APEC, and Google Announce Winner of APEC Digital Prosperity Award

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Bangkok, November 17, 2022 — The winner of the sixth APEC Digital Prosperity Award was announced in Bangkok. A joint initiative of the APEC Thailand 2022, the award recognizes talented and innovative software designers and engineers from across Asia and the Pacific.

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The Brussels-Capital Region launches a permanent Citizens' Assembly on Climate.

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What a historic achievement! On November 16, the city of Brussels in Belgium launched a groundbreaking permanent Brussels Citizens’ Assembly on Climate. As part of what we call the “deliberative wave,” hundreds of assemblies around the world have sprung up around the globe over the past decade. What is new here is that the assembly is not temporary, but structurally integrated.

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Volunteers leverage youth action for climate at COP27

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From 6 to 18 November 2022, UN Volunteers supported the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Among these are nine UN Volunteers, predominantly youth and women, deployed by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

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