Honoring Indigenous Wisdom: Peru's Multicultural Agenda For Inclusive Growth At APEC
As part of our domestic policy, Peru promotes bilingual education in 16 languages as well as the integration of an ethnic variable in our main economic surveys and registries. Likewise, nowadays we ...
Thailand: Withdraw Repressive Draft Law On Not-for-Profit Organizations
This draft law would be an unmitigated disaster for Thailand’s people and civil society because it would enable government officials to stifle civil and political rights that are essential for a ...
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Plastic Pollution A Global Threat To Human Rights, Say UN Experts
GENEVA (21 November 2024) – UN experts said today the legally binding global instrument on plastic pollution, now in the final phase of negotiation, must secure accountability in all stages of the ...
Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
Nika Dubrovsky is an artist, writer, and founder of the David Graeber Institute and the Museum of Care. This excerpt is adapted from Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber’s Cities Made Differently (MIT ...
Russia Must Urgently Grant Medical Release To Gravely Ill Human Rights Defender: UN Expert
GENEVA (22 November 2024) – Russian authorities should immediately release Crimean human rights defender Tofik Abdulhaziiev on medical grounds, before his health deteriorates any further, a UN expert* ...
Myanmar Amputees Under Siege By Junta Landmines, Harassment And Blockades Of Prosthetics, Say UN Experts
News that Myanmar has the world’s largest number of casualties from landmines and unexploded ordnance “is only part of the story of the military junta’s attacks on people with disabilities in Myanmar” ...
Behind the Banner: Inside the hīkoi mō te Tiriti
In Selwyn Park, Pākehā couple Lucy Hoult and Matt Watson had made the one-hour drive from Mangawhai to attend. Both wore ...
Mexico: UN Human Rights Chief Concerned About Expansion Of Mandatory Pretrial Detention
GENEVA (22 November 2024) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today expressed concern about a proposed constitutional reform in Mexico that expands the scope of crimes subject to mandatory pretrial ...
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The biggest difference between Hīkoi mō te Tiriti and past hīkoi: More support from non-Māori
Analysis - Scenes that we saw play out over the past two weeks of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti have played out before in the history of ...
Drug Company Deal Delivers Hope For Dementia
A drug discovery company co-founded by Kiwi Professor Chris Shaw has announced a landmark multimillion-dollar deal with a ...
Colin Mathura-Jeffree: ‘People That Gate-keep Are Terrified Of Me’
Despite his regal gaze, 52-year-old model and TV presenter Colin Mathura-Jeffree has no time for snobbery. "The one thing I ...
Marape aims to bring back PNG Games in 2025
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape wants the PNG Games to be brought back next year to coincide with the country's ...