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No safe places left for children as they are targeted in their homes, schools and playgrounds, and 2017 was a bad one Children in conflict zones around the world have come under attack at a shocking scale throughout the year, UNICEF warned today, with parties to conflicts blatantly disregarding inte

Business , Climate , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 12/09/2017

Philippines initiates world’s first human rights investigation into corporate responsibility for climate change

Companies, including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Suncor and Repsol, are being asked to explain their role in making climate change worse. The world’s first ever national inquiry into the responsibility of the fossil fuel industry for the human rights impacts resulting from clim

Gender , Human Rights / 12/08/2017

Women file sexism complaint to UN against UK police spies

Psychologically and sexually women abused by police spies infiltrating UK social and green movement groups files complaint at the UN The women complain to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women that the UK government has failed to prevent institutionalised discriminatio

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Disasters , Health , Human Rights , Water / 11/29/2017

Millions of Yemenis on verge of losing clean running water

There is a major danger of cholera comeback as four in five people will be without steady water supply. Eight million people in Yemen will be without running water within days as fuel runs out due to the Saudi-led coalition blockade of the country’s northern ports, Oxfam warned. They will join

Climate , Forests , Human Rights / 11/03/2017

There is a need for a stronger tribal voice at COP 23

Survival International is calling for greater recognition from world leaders for tribal peoples’ crucial role in protecting the environment, ahead of the COP 23 conference in Bonn, Germany. The conference, which takes place between November 6 and November 17, is a follow up to the groundbreakin

Human Rights / 10/17/2017

Outrage as tour operators sell “human safaris” in Andaman Islands, India

Tour operators in India’s Andaman Islands are selling “human safaris” to the reserve of a recently-contacted tribe, despite government promises to ban the practice. Tourists travel along a road through the Jarawa’s forest, treating tribes people like animals in a safari park. In 2013, the

Health , Human Rights , Migration , Sustainable Development / 09/28/2017

For Some Refugees, Women’s Health Care Is A Culture Shock

Sarah Varney Male doctors examine women patients and that people are supposed to get a checkup even when not sick are some of the culture shocks refugees are confronted with Dinnertime is nearing, and the kitchen in this tidy home is buzzing. Lamyaa Manty, a 29-year-old Iraqi refugee, wears a ne

Biodiversity , Data & Reports , Environment , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 09/26/2017

Widespread abuse funded by big conservation organizations

A new Survival International report details widespread and systematic human rights abuses in the Congo Basin, by wildlife guards funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and other big conservation organizations. The report documents serious instances of abuse between 1989 and the present day in Cam

Health , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/18/2017

Does the World Have Enough Midwives?

Farasha Bashir The practice of midwifery came to attention during the time of the Millennium Development Goals due to the global shortage of healthcare workers, with WHO predicting (in 2006) that an additional 4.2 million workers are needed, especially in developing countries. When a woman goes i

Data & Reports , Education , Featured , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/12/2017

Fulfilling SDG 4 on Education at risk as 3.5 million refugee children deprived of schooling

The report, “Left Behind: Refugee Education in Crisis”, finds that globally, 91 per cent of children attend primary school. For refugees, that figure is far lower at only 61 per cent – and in low-income countries it is less than 50 per cent. More than 3.5 million refugee children aged 5 to 1

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