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A staggering 40 percent increase in prices has been witnessed in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Togo, Niger, Mali and Mauritania – pushing basic meals out of reach for millions of women, men and children. The number of women, men and children affected by a food and nutrition cri

Aid , Biodiversity , Corruption , Data & Reports , Environment , Forests , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development / 04/07/2022

Eviction, torture, rape, murder reported from world famous gorilla national park in DRC

Thousands of Batwa were evicted when the park was expanded in 1975. Since then they’ve mostly lived outside it, in conditions of absolute poverty, but some have tried to return to their lands inside the park. A national park famed for its gorilla-spotting treks has been the scene of appalling atro

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/16/2022

Is Nature Based Solutions greenwashing-numerous organizations write an open letter

From the conservation industry’s perspective, the idea is simple: corporations pay them to enclose forests or plant trees on land they claim is “degraded” and which could absorb more carbon if restored. In return, the corporations claim that the climate damage from their ongoing gr

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 03/15/2022

UK governments new Environment Law puts into doubt their commitments made at COP 26

UK new Environment Act could fail to tackle much of the country’s deforestation footprint abroad, despite the UK government’s claims of a ‘world-leading’ law and their role in securing the Glasgow Declaration on Forests to halt and reverse global deforestation by 2030. The Department For

Aid , COVID-19 , Governance , Health , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 03/11/2022

Two Years Into Pandemic, Human Rights Watch Warns of Lessons Not Learned

Jessica Corbett “As we enter the third year,” an expert at the group says, “the inequities that have characterized the past two years are only being further entrenched.” Experts at a leading U.S. human rights group marked the two-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Data & Reports , Economy , Environment , Food , Forests , Health , Human Rights , Labour , Refugees , Resources , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 03/01/2022

Mining companies seek to expand into Brazil’s indigenous territories

Lívia Machado Costa New report shows that companies from Brazil and abroad are sieging sites of interest, even where mineral extraction is prohibited he search for new mining areas is expanding into Brazil’s indigenous territories, amid rising mineral revenues and exports, as well as in

Biodiversity , Cities , Climate , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Economy , Energy , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Health , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 02/28/2022

Latest IPCC report says human induced climate catastrophe is destroying both humans and nature

Climate crisis has exposed millions of people to acute food and water insecurity, especially in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, on Small Islands and in the Arctic. Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of pe

Aid , Biodiversity , Climate , Environment , Food , Governance , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 02/26/2022

Australia pledges billions to save its Great Barrier Reef. Is it enough?

However, the reef is dying. Climate change, driven by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, is the biggest culprit with the reef going through five mass bleaching events in the past 25 years On the 28th of January 2022, the Australian government pledged $1 billion of funding for the conservation o

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 01/27/2022

Cover-up: Brazilian government plot to open up uncontacted tribe’s territory revealed

An extraordinary plot to open up an uncontacted tribe’s territory for exploitation, and suppress evidence of the tribe’s existence, has been revealed in Brazil. The cover-up involves top officials in FUNAI, the government Indigenous Affairs Agency, who have been hand-picked by President Bol

Biodiversity , Climate , Economy , Energy , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Water / 11/26/2021

Another poor wet season endangers Cambodia’s biggest lake and its people

Ate Hoekstra, Yon Sineat Climate change, unsustainable and illegal fishing and the proliferation of hydropower dams on rivers that feed Tonle Sap threaten the livelihoods of over one million Cambodians Sarun Nong, a fisher on Koh Krabey, a small island in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake, takes

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