Call for Regulating Climate Finance
Climate campaigners call for ‘one-for-one’ capital requirements A wide range of academics, economists and civil society organisations are calling for regulators to introduce ‘one-for-one’ capital requirements for financial institutions funding new fossil-fuel projects. The new campaign, spearheaded by research and advocacy
Published : 25 November 2021
UN: Palestinians’ Right to Their Natural Resources
The United Nations has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution, which grants Palestinians permanent sovereignty over their natural resources in the Israeli-occupied territories, including East Jerusalem. On Thursday, 19 November 2021, the Economic and Financial Committee of the UN
Published : 19 November 2021
Israel to Pay Lebanon for Eco Harm
UN resolution asking ‘Israel’ to pay Lebanon $856.4 M over environmental disaster NEW YORK—The UN on Thursday asked the occupation state of ‘Israel’ to pay $850 million to Lebanon in compensation for a major oil spill
Published : 19 November 2021
Banning Human Rights Defenders: Comparing Apartheids
The banning of human rights defenders: Israel and South Africa compared Even the apartheid regime in South Africa never outlawed human rights defenders in the manner that Israel just did when it declared six Palestinian organizations
Published : 16 November 2021
Tel Aviv Eviction: 1st Arabs, Then Mizrahi Jews
Tel Aviv Evicts Residents of Working-class Neighborhood after a Decades-long Battle Some of the Givat Amal residents are barricading in their homes as police are trying to evict them Police evicted the final 32 families from Tel
Published : 15 November 2021
Copping-out at CoP26
The 26th Conference of Parties (CoP26) ended in grave disappointment at the state delegations who weakened the needed commitments to save the planet from multiple climate disasters. This CoP, the supreme governing body of international
Published : 14 November 2021
Western Sahara: This Year of War
PRESSRELEASE The Inalienable Right to Self-Determination of the Saharawi People Is Not Negotiable BirLehlu/Geneva,13November2021 Since the invasion of Western Sahara by the Kingdom of Morocco, the month of November has been a period of painful recurrence for the
Published : 13 November 2021
Jerusalem: New Tools of Permanent Annexation
PHROC, CAC & Others Send Joint Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Special Procedures on Israel’s Permanent Illegal Annexation of Jerusalem On 8 November 2021, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), compromising of eleven Palestinian
Published : 13 November 2021
Lebanon ‘brutally impoverished,’ ‘lost trust’
Statement by Professor Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, on his visit to Lebanon, 1–12 November 2021 Beirut, 12 November 2021 Introduction "Lebanon has been embroiled in an economic, social, financial
Published : 12 November 2021
