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The Land and Its People: Civil Society Voices Address the Crisis over Natural Resources in the Middle East/North Africa |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 20 August 2024 |
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Iran Privatization Wave Raises Concern |
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By :Ali Noureddine, fanack.com |
| 06 March 2023 |
Iran Privatization Wave Raises Concern
Current doubts about Iran privatization wave path stem from negative past experiences, lack of transparency and the absence of comprehensive economic plans.
The Iranian government is gearing up to generate 108,000 Iranian tomans in 2023 from the sale of government-owned assets.
In order to facilitate this process, the Iranian authorities have secured
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Kahramanmaraş Quakes: Where is the State? |
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By :Cihan Uzunçarşılı Baysal, Bir Gün |
| 12 February 2023 |
February 6 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes: Where is the state?
The Minister of Environment and Urbanization of the country, seventy percent of which lies on an earthquake zone, proudly announced that there have been 10,250,000 applications nationwide for the Construction Amnesty, which had expired on 15 June 2019.
For days, television screens carried the
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UN 2023 Water Conference Preparatory Meeting |
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By :UN |
| 17 October 2022 |
The Preparatory Meeting to the UN 2023 Water Conference, will be held on the 25 October 2022 at the UN HQ, in New York. The aim is to finalize the themes of the interactive dialogues and other outstanding organizational matters of the UN 2023 Water Conference. Details are available here,
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Women Resist UN Corporate Capture |
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By :Women;s Major Group |
| 24 September 2022 |
“Bigger than BlackRock: Challenging UN Corporate Partnerships”
Feminist economic justice must outweigh investment profits for UN Women
On 23 August 2022, the feminists behind #BlockBlackRock met with UN Women representatives to express concerns about the announced partnership with the world’s largest investment firm, BlackRock, and with the broader approach to corporate partnerships.
During
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Gold Extractivism- Sudan |
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By :Ahmed Mansour Ismail |
| 16 June 2022 |
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
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By :Joseph Schechla |
| 24 March 2022 |
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit
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MENA Civil Society Assesses SDG Progress |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 16 March 2022 |
HIC-HLRN participated with Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) in the “Regional CSO Forum on Sustainable Development,” on 13–14 March 2022 at Beirut, Lebanon. The gathering of diverse policy analysts representing the Middle East/North Africa region’s civil society covered the range of contemporary development issues represented in the Sustainable-development Goals
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Understanding Human Rights ETOs |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 15 January 2022 |
The new Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations has just been published and it is available in open access here. This new handbook compiles lessons and analysis by world experts on the human rights obligations of states beyond their territorial borders. It is designed to give meaning and
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UN Food Summit Will Only Feed Corporations |
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By :Sofía Monsalve, Geneva Solutions |
| 22 September 2021 |
Transnational agribusiness firms have captured the UN Food Systems Summit and have restricted the meeting`s agenda to solutions that will further inflate their profits instead of solving the global hunger crisis, says Sofia Monsalve, secretary general of the food rights organisation FIAN International.
When I visited my parents in Bogotá last month,
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