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Still I Rise to receive Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice in Mumbai
The organization is among this year’s awardees for its world-changing work in providing quality education to refugee children. Still I Rise is among the recipients of the 18th Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice for its work providing high-quality…
The recognition of the sovereignty of indigenous people could save the biodiversity and ecosystems
Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) and frontline Indigenous activists discuss today the important work of land and water defenders within Canada and beyond who are protecting biodiversity. The panelists were calling out false solutions and the lack of political will within…
COP15 Women key roles in conservation need to be recognizes
Tuesday, representatives from different organizations shared their insights on gender equality in biodiversity policy at the COP15 in Montreal. According to Archana Soreng (India) member of the United Nations Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, environmental policies that…
COP15: rich countries under pressure to accept a new biodiversity fund
Pressure is mounting on rich countries, called upon to finance efforts to protect the biodiversity of developing countries with a fund to implement the “peace with nature pact” being negotiated in Montreal. Developed countries, including Canada, oppose it. Mobilization of…
Starting with food to ensure human rights
On Saturday 10 December, Human Rights Day, it will be 74 years since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings. As far as the right…
COP15 communities and indigenous peoples must be at the center of discussions and negotiations and not “big money”
After a week of mostly glacial deliberations, are COP15 negotiators any closer to reaching agreement on a global plan to reverse biodiversity loss? According to World Wide Fund (WWW) officials, what happened in week one is not ambitious enough to…
10 December, Free Assange: photos from around the world
On 10 December, International Human Rights Day, activists around the world mobilised for Julian Assange. The first to arrive were students from National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, who demonstrated for Julian Assange’s freedom in front of the AIT (American…
COP15 countries must agree on real enforcement mechanisms and reviews otherwise the global pact to save nature is doomed
The global pact to save nature, under negotiation at COP15, will be condemned to failure, whatever its ambitions, if the countries do not agree on real mechanisms for applying and reviewing the commitments, have denounced several environmental activists on Saturday.…
Photos: International Human Rights Day NYC Vigil to Free Julian Assange
Rally in front of the British Consulate in New York City on December 10, 2022 While the US criticizes other countries for their lack of freedom of the press, it is the US that is attacking Julian Assange for revealing…
COP15 – March for Biodiversity and Human Rights in Montreal
The COP15 Collective, the CBD Alliance and the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, along with Greenpeace Canada, marched with more than 3,500 people despite the freezing cold today in Montreal. While COP15 is the most important global meeting on biodiversity for…
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