Linking development & human rights
International standards & introductory material on linking development & human rights: click here
Articles & reports from a range of sources are below.
Get RSS feed of these resultsRelated stories and components
Author: La República
“Corrientes integrará la Comisión Nacional para la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil”- 03 de diciembre de 2018...
- Related in-depth areas: Últimas noticias legales
Human Rights Defenders World Summit demands action from businesses & financial institutions
"Human Rights Defenders World Summit 2018: Action Plan", 10 Dec 2018...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest news on human rights defenders Technology and Human Rights: Digital Freedom
Defenders in Development campaign calls on states & development financiers to safeguard defenders & guarantee meaningful public participation
Author: Defenders in Development campaign
"Human Rights Defenders are a cornerstone of sustainable development", Nov 2018...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest news on human rights defenders
Equatorial Guinea: Int'l civil society orgs. call on oil cos. to denounce attack on human rights defender
Author: Publish What You Pay
"News: Civil society leader and leading human rights activist attacked in Equatorial Guinea", 5 Nov 2018...
- Related stories: Equatorial Guinea: Oil cos. urged to denounce attack on human rights defender; Total & Clontarf Energy responded
- Related in-depth areas: Latest news on human rights defenders
Equatorial Guinea: Oil cos. urged to denounce attack on human rights defender; Total & Clontarf Energy responded
Alfredo Okenve, a leading civil society activist and vice-president of the Center for Development Studies and Initiatives (CEID), was severely beaten up at gunpoint on 27 October 2018. Plain-clothed policemen carried out a prolonged attack, before...
Women environmental & land defenders honoured on women's human rights defenders day
Author: Liz Ford, The Guardian (UK)
"Women's rights take centre stage as murdered activists are remembered", 29 Nov 2018...
- Related stories: Women human rights defenders' day 2018: Rise in killings & calls for a stronger response by govts. & cos.
- Related in-depth areas: Latest news on human rights defenders Women human rights defenders
Author: No a la mina
“Los gobiernos de América Latina esclavos del destino extractivo exportador”- 27 de noviembre de 2018...
- Related in-depth areas: Últimas noticias sobre recursos naturales
Author: Diario Co Latino
“PDDH de Guatemala y El Salvador inician investigación de minería en aguas transfronterizas”- 17 de noviembre de 2018...
- Related in-depth areas: Últimas noticias legales
- Related companies: Entre Mares (part of Goldcorp)
Intl. Finance Corporation’s position statement on reprisals against defenders supported by Defenders in development coalition
Author: Coalition for Human Rights in Development (USA)
"Release: Defenders in Development Campaign Welcomes IFC Position Statement on Reprisals", 12 Nov 2018...
- Related stories: Intl. Finance Corporation’s position statement on reprisals against defenders supported by key civil society coalition
- Related in-depth areas: Latest news on human rights defenders
Smith: Government could improve rights to lessen EBA issue
Author: Ben Sokhean, The Phnom Penh Post
6 November 2018...