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11 Avril 2019
Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on…
11 Avril 2019
“Climate change is ravaging the planet… staggering numbers of children and youth – especially girls and young women – still lack access to basic education and healthcare services, [and] people in many countries are starved of economic opportunities, decent work and social protection measures”, she…
10 Avril 2019
The Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6), the most comprehensive environmental assessment produced by the UN in five years, brought us both good and bad news.
The environment has continued to deteriorate since the first GEO-6 report in 1997, with potentially irreversible impacts if not…
10 Avril 2019
On Wednesday, John Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, provided the key to a long-term climate change solution: food.
In partnership with EAT and the South Asia Food Nutrition Security Initiative, the World Bank hosted a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. on…
5 Avril 2019
Lançado em 2005, o Minorities Fellowship Programme (MFP) é o programa de formação mais abrangente do ACNUDH para os direitos humanos e os defensores dos direitos das minorias pertencentes a minorias nacionais ou étnicas, religiosas e linguísticas.
No final da MFP, os bolsistas devem ter um…
5 Avril 2019
'Urgency of climate crisis' is seen as demanding push for vast reforestation across U.S.
Climate change experts accept that reducing greenhouse gas emissions – even doing so substantially – won’t be sufficient for limiting atmospheric warming to the 2°C (3.6°F) goal of the Paris Climate Agreement…
3 Avril 2019
Having a title, deed or lease is the key that turns informal occupants into citizens, yet 70 percent of the world's people still live without documented property rights
The lack of a strong land record keeping system is partially responsible for the slow recovery from Hurricane Maria in Puerto…
2 Avril 2019
At this week’s 20th Annual World Bank Land and Poverty Conference in Washington DC, a new campaign called Stand For Her Land has been launched. “Land rights are a major factor in women’s entrepreneurship, their strength, for their families, their communities, and their countries”, said Kristalina…
31 Mars 2019
Concerned about rising global temperatures and disastrous consequences, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on Heads of State to attend the Climate Action Summit in New York on September 23, and achieve positive change.
“Don’t come with a speech, come with a plan,” he said, adding: “…
29 Mars 2019
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Em reunião na Assembleia Geral, nesta quarta-feira, secretário-geral da ONU afirma que decisão com base num parecer da Corte Internacional de Justiça, CIJ, pode melhorar conduta dos países por ação climática; texto aprovado por consenso foca em consequências legais para…
26 Mars 2019
Women in half of the countries in the world are unable to assert equal land and property rights despite legal protections, warned members of a new global campaign that formally launches today. The campaign, Stand For Her Land, aims to close this persistent gap between law and practice worldwide so…
26 Mars 2019
BOGOR, Indonesia (26 March 2019) – Amid preparations for the landmark U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has become the latest partner in the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100).
The partnership aims to…