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The World Wide Fund (WWF) in Australia is partnering with technology companies to track supply chains and help stop illegal, unsustainable fishing practices and curb human rights abuses such as slavery. Media reports are linked below.
Fiji: Human Rights at Sea publish a new case study centered on the killing of a Fijian crewman in Panama
Author: Munivai Taukave Lorenti
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Author: UN Environment (Switzerland)
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UN human rights chief has concerns in Indonesia, PNG and Fiji
Author: Radio NZ
14 February 2018 Following his visits to Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...highlighted a range of deep concerns in these countries...
Democracy Index 2017: new report provides a snapshot of the state of democracy worldwide
Author: The Economist (USA)
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Fiji: Blockchain technology joint pilot project launched to address illegal fishing practices and human rights abuses in Pacific Islands tuna industry
Author: Candice Visser & Quentin Hanich, the Conversation
"How blockchain is strengthening tuna traceability to combat illegal fishing", 22 January 2018...
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Commentary: Powering Past Coal Alliance must ensure just transition from coal to clean power
Author: Sharan Burrow & Mary Robinson, The B Team
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COP23: Global alliance to phase out coal recognises need for a "just transition"
Author: Michael Holder, businessGreen
The UK and Canada have joined with 24 other nations and regional states to launch a new global alliance aimed at phasing out coal-fired power and weaning the world off the most carbon intensive form of electricity generation. The new group was...
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Twenty countries join global alliance to phase out coal by 2030
Author: Nina Chestney & Stine Jacobsen, Reuters (UK)
Since signing the Paris Agreement in 2015 [...] several countries have made national plans to phase out coal... The Powering Past Coal alliance brings together many of these countries and others that will commit to phasing out coal [and] sharing...
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