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Commentary: ICT co's must adopt gender lens to resolve tech-enabled human rights abuses
Author: Michelle Lau-Burke & Callie Strickland, OpenGlobalRights
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Mauritania: Workshop presents tools to document & resist attacks to defenders from Africa, working on business & human rights
Author: The International Service for Human Rights (Switzerland)
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Tanzania & Mozambique: Poor rural women discriminated in compensation after displacement to pave way for agribusiness, says report
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Author: EURACTIV
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Empty Promises and the Myth of Mining: Does Mining Lead to Pro-Poor Development?
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