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European court decision shows that safe climate is a human right

Naharnet 18 Apr 2024
... countries are not doing enough to protect the human rights,'' Robinson said in a 30-minute interview with The Associated Press at the Skoll World Forum, a conference of ideas and entrepreneurship.
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UN Special Rapporteur urges Council of Europe to recognise the right to a healthy environment

Swissinfo 18 Apr 2024
Is climate protection becoming a new human right? Last week, Switzerland became the first country in the world to be sentenced for climate inaction by an international court ... fundamental human rights.
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The Strasbourg court is engaging in an outrageous power grab

AOL 18 Apr 2024
In her most recent speech, Judge O’Leary waxes lyrical about the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) saying, rather vaingloriously, that “we are blessed in this part of the world with the most ...
photo: AP / Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out a fire after Russia's missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023.
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Destroying Cultural Heritage

Human Rights Watch 18 Apr 2024
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Israel involved in illegal settler actions: Human Rights Watch

Anadolu Agency 18 Apr 2024
Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Israeli military of involvement in illegal Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank, resulting in displacement from 20 communities, with at least seven communities entirely uprooted since Oct.
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UN puts spotlight on attacks against Indigenous land defenders

Grist 18 Apr 2024
The report “Criminalization of Indigenous Peoples’ human rights” lays out the mechanisms by which Indigenous Peoples around the world are increasingly facing criminalization and violations of their rights with impunity.
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Stop appeasing China at the World Bank and IMF

The Hill 18 Apr 2024
At the World Bank, China frequently undermines attempts to uphold standards related to human rights, including fighting attempts to verify the strong evidence that slave labor is being used in World Bank procurement from China.
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Why June meet on Ukraine conflict is a testament to Switzerland’s standing as a peacemaker

Indian Express 18 Apr 2024
The meet also hopes to look at some basic tenets of human rights values in a tumultuous world that challenges what is “human” and what is a “right” ... some of the critical bearings of human rights laws.
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Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental damage in biodiverse Cerrado

Mongabay 18 Apr 2024
... to become the world’s top cotton supplier by 2030. “If you read Zara and H&M’s sustainability policies and human rights policies, they don’t…This article was originally published on Mongabay .
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Western powers shot down Iranian missiles. Why not Russian missiles?

The Hill 18 Apr 2024
Neither country “wins” the human rights comparison ... The reason has little to do with Ukraine and Israel and their objective positions within the world of human rights, national interests or global geopolitics.
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Taipei-Vilnius ties force for good: President Tsai

Taipei Times 18 Apr 2024
Taiwan is “the island of liberty and the beacon of human rights in the whole region and an example of how these values should be lived and implemented for the whole world,” he said.
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Government basing school truancy response on data, but by-the-numbers solutions not enough

RNZ 18 Apr 2024
Despite the apparent difficulty in solving the truancy problem, education is a fundamental human right ... Education as a human right. The right to education has featured consistently in the international legal framework since the end of World War II.
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President Higgins pays tribute to 'outstanding' trade union activist Sam Nolan

RTE 18 Apr 2024
... the 1950s, winning the 40 hour week in the 1960s, fighting for trade union recognition, the anti-apartheid campaign, and campaigning for human and democratic rights for women and men across the world.
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