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Report by The Forum on Information and Democracy highlights urgent need to support environmental journalism
16 Feb 2026 19:41 GMT
The report “Ten Priorities to Tackle Climate Disinformation” is the culmination of a year of work by the Workstream on Information Integrity on Climate Change and the Environment, which is co-chaired by the governments of Brazil and Armenia. The document …
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Protecting biodiversity is protecting human rights
28 Dec 2025 18:44 GMT
… it is fundamentally about safeguarding human rights.
The global biodiversity crisis … that halt deforestation, regulate extractive industries, protect environmental defenders, and … be reformed in line with human rights standards.
Ultimately, protecting …
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Inside a newsroom in the Ecuadorian Amazon: how Radio Sucumbíos keeps environmental news alive
13 Feb 2026 17:08 GMT
… and political interests linked to extractive industries and local power structures can … communications editorial line focused on human rights, gender equality, interculturality, human mobility …
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UN human rights mechanisms urge Guatemala to end forced evictions, protect land rights defenders
16 Dec 2025 18:05 GMT
… is completed.
Climate change and extractive industries as drivers of displacement
© … Protection of Human Rights Defenders (UDEFEGUA in Spanish), a human rights watchdog, the … -up recommendations, particularly regarding human rights defenders, for Guatemala to …
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IHRDA STUDY WARNS AFRICAN STATES TO STRENGTHEN CHILD RIGHTS IN BUSINESS, HUMAN RIGHTS
20 Nov 2025 18:16 GMT
… Plans (NAPs) on Business and Human Rights (BHRs) across the African … pressing human rights concerns. As African economies grow, driven by extractive industries, infrastructure … NAPs on Business and Human Rights and National Human Rights policies.
He said …
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Canada’s next extractive industry: How AI is following the fossil fuel playbook
13 Nov 2025 16:27 GMT
In recent years, youth around the world have been suing their governments for climate change inaction, which is hastening the destruction of our planet. In 50 years, will future generations feel the same way about our adoption of AI?
The pattern is …
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ACHPR 85: The African Commission documents the human rights situation in Sudan
07 Nov 2025 22:42 GMT
… the Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment and Human Rights Violations, Commissioner Janet … The report also refers to human rights defenders who have been arrested … of possessing evidence of ongoing human rights violations.
Deploring the lack …
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Insights ’25 conference explores business law through a human rights lens
05 Nov 2025 02:42 GMT
… human rights field.”
“Hosting the inaugural Insights ’25 Business and Human Rights … business practices with human rights principles,” said … Business and Human Rights. Working collaboratively … National Security
Canadian Extractive Industry: Colonialism, BHR …
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Experts Urge Human Rights-Based AI Laws at Nigeria Panel on Ethics and Governance
29 Oct 2025 10:22 GMT
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“AI Is an Extractive Industry in Africa”
Stéphanie Lamy … companies often operate as “extractive industries” in Africa—harvesting … urgent policy attention.
Human Rights and Ethical AI
The … Service for Human Rights (ISHR) called for a human rights-based …
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Experts named to UN human rights probe for eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
27 Oct 2025 16:00 GMT
… alleged violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international … [to the Human Rights Council] on the situation of human rights in the above … the Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment, and Human Rights Violations under the African …