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  • ‘Only a Handful of Environmental Organisations Still Dare Challenge Corporate Projects in Court’

    9 de julio, puesto en línea por CIVICUS
    CIVICUS speaks to Cristinel Buzatu, regional legal advisor for Central and Eastern Europe at Greenpeace, about how Romania’s state gas company is weaponising the courts to silence environmental opposition. On 10 June, the state-owned energy giant Romgaz filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve (…)

  • World Bank IFC’s Landmark Remedial Action Framework

    8 de julio, puesto en línea por Carla Garcia Zendejas
    The World Bank’s private sector arm has raised the bar — and others may follow. On April 15, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) became the first development finance institution to adopt a formal remedy policy, publishing its Remedial Action Framework (RAF) to address environmental and (…)

  • Staff Union Dismisses UN Restructuring as “Chaotic, Incoherent, Rushed & Lacking Strategy”

    8 de julio, puesto en línea por Thalif Deen
    A coalition of UN staff unions, led by the 60,000-strong Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations (CCISUA), has written to UN member states criticizing the UN80 reform process as “incoherent and lacking strategy”. The union, one of the largest single coalitions in (…)

  • FfD4 at Sevilla Plants the Seeds of Debtor Unity

    4 de julio, puesto en línea por Michael Galant
    UN Member States adopted the ‘Compromiso de Sevilla’ at the Fourth Financing for Development Forum (FfD4) which concluded July 3– the culmination of months of contentious negotiations that pitted wealthy nations against the developing world in competing visions for reform of the global economic (…)

  • The Rise of Islamophobia in New York’s Mayoral Elections– with the Statue of Liberty in a Burqa

    4 de julio, puesto en línea por Thalif Deen
    The prospect of New Yorkers electing their first Muslim Mayor, come November, has ignited a rash of paranoid statements by right-wing US politicians, including Islamophobia– the irrational fear and hatred against Islam and Muslims. Last week, a Republican politician caricatured America’s iconic (…)