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Evidence to UN highlights extreme poverty in UK
News / 23rd August 2018The international human rights lawyer Philip Alston is investigating extreme poverty in the UK, following his similar visit to the US earlier this year. He will examine if the right to an adequate standard of living, enshrined in UN conventions, is being breached across the country.
Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival
Event / Monday, 10th December 2018The 5th annual Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival opens with “Human Rights Without Borders”, an event that brings together a number of groups that have “___ without Borders” as part of their name or groups that share the “without Borders” ethos.
NESI Forum 2019
Event / Tuesday, 23rd April 2019The countdown has started for the next NESI Forum 2019. From NESI Forum, the Global Hub for the Common Good Foundation will present the study and guide of the New Economy for climate change in the cities.
Dying of consumption while guzzling snake oil: the environment crisis requires overhauling our corporate industrial civilization
Article / 17th August 2018We cannot count on our government officials to offer real solutions—only we can make the necessary large-scale changes in production and consumption on both the individual and systemic levels. What these changes amount to most of all is living simply, personally and collectively. This is the true #resistance, writes Kristine Mattis in Common Dreams.
Declaration on the rights of peasants awaiting final voting and adoption
News / 17th August 2018After ten long years of negotiations in Geneva, a ‘United Nations Declaration on Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas’ is now at the point of being finalised.