Topic: Environment

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Struggles of La Vía Campesina for agrarian reform and the defense of life, land and territories

Report / 18th October 2017

On ‘Food Sovereignty Day’ La Via Campesina launches publication that calls for a massive change in the current agro-food systems

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Systemic change driven by moral awakening is our only hope

Article / 12th October 2017

Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overshoot, of which global warming is a symptom. Overshoot is a systemic issue.

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Global humanitarian needs have never been higher, says UN official

Article / 4th October 2017

The number of those needing humanitarian assistance is at its highest since the end of the Second World War – some 145 million people. Several protracted crises in Africa and the Middle East are deteriorating and climate-induced emergencies, sometimes combined with violent conflict, continue to wreak havoc on vulnerable communities. Amid all this, United Nations-coordinated response plans remain severely underfunded.

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Making the right to development a reality for everyone

Article / 4th October 2017

More than 30 years after the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development, business-as-usual will not be sufficient to achieve progress, a United Nations human rights expert has said.

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The world’s common humanity and US foreign policy

Article / 28th September 2017

'A sensible and effective foreign policy recognizes that our safety and welfare is bound up with the safety and welfare of others around the world.' By Bernie Sanders.

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World hunger is on the rise again

Report / 18th September 2017

A UN report it reveals that in 2016 the number of chronically undernourished people in the world is estimated to have increased to 815 million, up from 777 million in 2015, although still down from about 900 million in 2000.

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Removing barriers to justice is possible

Report / 13th September 2017

A joint civil society report explains how a treaty on business and human rights could improve access to remedy for victims, with seven key recommendations for practical reforms.

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Beyond state capitalism: The commons economy in our lifetimes

Article / 13th September 2017

In considering the essential problem of how to produce and distribute material wealth, virtually all of the great economists in Western history have ignored the significance of the commons—the shared resources of nature and society that people inherit, create and utilize.

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Climate migrants might reach one billion by 2050

Article / 7th September 2017

Imagine a world with as many as one billion people facing harsh climate change impacts resulting in devastating droughts and/or floods, extreme weather, destruction of natural resources, in particular lands, soils and water, and the consequence of severe livelihoods conditions, famine and starvation.

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Nova publikacija: "Razglasitev 25. člena" Mohammeda Mesbahija v obliki e-knjige

News / 22nd August 2017

Prišel je čas, ko moramo v milijonskem številu demonstrirati, ne proti temu ali onemu, temveč na temelju volje do dobrega in sočutja, ki opredeljujeta, kdo v resnici smo. Kajti v slehernem človeškem srcu je vgrajena ljubezen in modrost celotnega človeštva. - Mohammed Mesbahi

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