COP27: $3.1 billion plan to achieve early warning systems for all by 2027

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With climate-related disasters displacing more people than conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday unveiled the details of his plan to ensure everyone on the planet is protected by early warning systems within the next five years.

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Women’s Leadership in the ASEAN Region

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Gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Community Vision 2025 of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

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Profiling poverty beyond income shows where to have the biggest impact in a world in crisis

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50% of poor people still lack access to both electricity and clean cooking fuel stressing how renewable energy access is critical for people and planet. New York - The new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today finds that reducing poverty at scale is possible and unveils new ‘poverty profiles’ that can offer a breakthrough in development efforts to tackle the interlinked aspects...

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COP27 begins a ‘new era to do things differently’, UN climate change chief declares as pivotal conference gets underway

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The UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, should shift the world towards implementation of previously agreed plans to tackle humanity’s greatest challenge, Simon Stiell, the new Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Convention (UNFCCC), said on Sunday at the opening of COP27.

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Sixth South-East Asia Multi-Stakeholder Forum “Accelerating the Recovery from COVID-19 while Advancing the full Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”

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The South-East Asia Multi-Stakeholder Forum on the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals provides governments, development partners, civil society, academia, the private sector, and other stakeholders opportunities to share subregional perspectives, discuss collaborative measures to address subregional priorities, and exchange good practices to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable

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CEDAW Committee adopts General recommendation No 39 on the rights of Indigenous Women and Girls: 30 references to disability and to indigenous women and girls with disabilities

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The International Disability Alliance (IDA) welcomes the CEDAW Committee’s adoption General recommendation No. 39 on the rights of Indigenous Women and Girls providing guidance to States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against women on the more relevant issues for indigenous women and girls and on the State’s obligations regarding their rights

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How action on climate justice can be delivered at COP27

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4th November. Ahead of the COP27 climate talks, ActionAid is setting out five climate justice benchmarks to build trust and deliver the action needed to address the Loss and Damage and Climate Justice.  

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JOINT STATEMENT ON INTEGRATED CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEMS FOR CHILDREN IN MIGRATION

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The 14th European Forum focused on the rights of the child this year dedicated to ‘Bringing children at the centre: empowering, protecting and including children, and its focus, amongst other things, on integrated child protection systems.

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WMO and WHO launch ClimaHealth portal

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The first global knowledge platform dedicated to climate and health - ClimaHealth.info - has been launched by the World Meteorological Organization and World Health Organization Joint Office on climate and health, with support from the Wellcome Trust.

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Bulletin of the World Health Organization: FOCUS ON REHABILITATION

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The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a fully open-access journal of public health with a special focus on low and middle-income countries. It was first published in 1948 and, since then, has sought to make its full contents as widely available as possible.

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International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, 2 November

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Countering threats of violence and crimes against journalists to protect freedom of expression for all

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National human rights action plans: An inventory (The Danish Institute for Human Rights)

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How many states have adopted national human rights action plans? Building on its inventory of all national human rights action plans ever adopted, this research project investigates processes of norm diffusion, methodological evolutions as well as state engagement with national human rights action plans since the 1993 Vienna Declaration introduced the concept.

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ASHOKA EVENT: Building for the New Longevity (9th of November)

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Join us on November 9, as we hear from social entrepreneurs building for the New Longevity. Live from the BBK New Lon

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Event: Do Children Have Rights? The harmful effect of partial school attendance and seclusion rooms (INCLUSIVE EDUCATION CANADA)

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Date: Tuesday November 8, 2022 Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm Eastern

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Inspiring Practices in Corporate Skills-Based Volunteering (November 15 @ 10:00am EST )

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Earlier this year IAVE released Corporate Volunteering for a Post Pandemic World, a comprehensive research on corporate volunteering and how it happens in each region of the world was the result of nearly 200 interviews, with representation from 80 companies. One of the major topics explored in this research is skills-based volunteering.

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Progress on methane emissions by energy companies, but numbers still don’t add up: UNEP

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Over 80 oil and gas companies across the world have committed to measuring and reducing their methane emissions, the second biggest driver of global warming, according to a new report by the UN environment agency (UNEP).

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Rights of indigenous peoples and local communities must be the focus of climate change solutions

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BANGKOK, 1 November 2022 — The rights of indigenous peoples and local communities must be put at the center when discussing urgently needed solutions to the ongoing climate crisis, lawmakers, civil society members, and experts said in the first ever conference on the role of parliamentarians in addressing climate change in Southeast Asia, organized by ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR)

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS LAUNCHED IN UKRAINE

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Today the National Association of Social Workers Ukraine (NASWU) was officially launched in the country’s central district of Kamenets Podisk. Representatives from the office of the Prime Minister joined the District Mayor, Mr Mykhailo Simashkevych, along with local social workers, social work students, professionals from other parts of the country and members of the International Federation....

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NEW FELLOWS JOIN THE ECHOING GREEN FELLOWSHIP CLASS OF 2022

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Announced in October 2022, these 20 Echoing Green Fellows are innovating for our collective future.

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Building Climate Justice Through Participatory Governance (Wednesday, November 2, 2022 6:30 PM 8:30 PM (EAST AMERICAN TIME).)

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Join City University of New York (CUNY) for a virtual panel discussion on "Building Climate Justice Through Participatory Governance: Frameworks and Case Studies from the U.S." with Lebaron Sims, Demos; Johana Bozuwa, Community and Climate Project; and Thomas Hanna, Democracy Collaborative. It will be moderated by Michael Menser, Brooklyn College and CUNY. with Denise Thompson, John Jay College/CU

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COP27: $3.1 billion plan to achieve early warning systems for all by 2027

Women’s Leadership in the ASEAN Region

Profiling poverty beyond income shows where to have the biggest impact in a world in crisis

COP27 begins a ‘new era to do things differently’, UN climate change chief declares as pivotal conference gets underway

Sixth South-East Asia Multi-Stakeholder Forum “Accelerating the Recovery from COVID-19 while Advancing the full Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”

CEDAW Committee adopts General recommendation No 39 on the rights of Indigenous Women and Girls: 30 references to disability and to indigenous women and girls with disabilities

How action on climate justice can be delivered at COP27

JOINT STATEMENT ON INTEGRATED CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEMS FOR CHILDREN IN MIGRATION

WMO and WHO launch ClimaHealth portal

Bulletin of the World Health Organization: FOCUS ON REHABILITATION

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, 2 November

National human rights action plans: An inventory (The Danish Institute for Human Rights)

ASHOKA EVENT: Building for the New Longevity (9th of November)

Event: Do Children Have Rights? The harmful effect of partial school attendance and seclusion rooms (INCLUSIVE EDUCATION CANADA)

Inspiring Practices in Corporate Skills-Based Volunteering (November 15 @ 10:00am EST )

Progress on methane emissions by energy companies, but numbers still don’t add up: UNEP

Rights of indigenous peoples and local communities must be the focus of climate change solutions

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS LAUNCHED IN UKRAINE

NEW FELLOWS JOIN THE ECHOING GREEN FELLOWSHIP CLASS OF 2022

Building Climate Justice Through Participatory Governance (Wednesday, November 2, 2022 6:30 PM 8:30 PM (EAST AMERICAN TIME).)

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