World Press Freedom Day 2025: Defending the Frontlines of Truth in Southeast Asia

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 08May
JAKARTA/NEW YORK, 3 May 2025 — On World Press Freedom Day, the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) call for urgent action to safeguard press freedom and protect journalists across Southeast Asia.
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Human Development Report 2025 A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07May
Artificial intelligence (AI) has broken into a dizzying gallop. While AI feats grab headlines, they privilege technology in a make-believe vacuum, obscuring what really matters: people’s choices. The choices that people have and can realize, within ever expanding freedoms, are essential to human development, whose goal is for people to live lives they value....
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Civil society groups press for urgent reforms to ADB Accountability Mechanism at bank's annual meeting

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07May
02.05.2025. This week, Recourse joins a coalition of civil society organisations in sending to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) a summary of recommendations aimed at strengthening the independence, accessibility and effectiveness of the ADB Accountability Mechanism (AM).
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Human Development progress slows to a 35-year low according to UN Development Programme report

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07May
Human Development progress slows to a 35-year low according to UN Development Programme report Sixty percent of people hopeful Artificial Intelligence will create new job opportunities May 6, 2025
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A smart mix of measures on business and human rights in Latin America: An advance version

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07May
This report maps existing measures to implement the UNGPs in Latin America to inform discussions on whether mandatory human rights due diligence legislation is needed, and to highlight opportunities, gaps, and challenges such legislation would need to respond to.
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Israel’s New INGO Registration Measures Are a Grave Threat to Humanitarian Operations and International Law – 55 Organisations Say

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07May
Published: 6th May 2025 Oxfam, together with 54 organisations operating in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) call for urgent action from the international community against new Israeli registration rules for international NGOs.
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IUCN launches project to combat marine plastic pollution in the Pacific

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 07May
IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature has today convened the inception workshop for its new project, "Solutions to Reduce Plastic Pollution Affecting Marine Biodiversity and Sensitive Coastal Ecosystems: Samoa, Vanuatu & Tonga", marking a significant step forward in regional efforts to address the growing marine plastic crisis.
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New two-part course launched: Introduction to Sports for Climate Action

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 06May
United Nations Climate Change and partners have launched two free online courses on Sports for Climate Action.
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HRW: Malaysia: Wood Products Tainted by Abuse, Deforestation

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 06May
(Brussels) – Malaysia’s Sarawak state has failed to protect an Indigenous community from a timber company that logged without the community’s consent and seeks to remove them from their land, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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A life in peril to unearth the truth

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 06May
3 May acts as a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom and is also a day of reflection among media professionals about issues of press freedom and professional ethics
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