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La Fundación para el Desarrollo de Políticas Sustentables (FUNDEPS) propone cupos como una manera asegurar que los hombres no supongan un mayoría frente a las mujeres en la política. El problema de representación política desigual surgió después la reciente resolución dictaminada de oficio por el...
Published: Jul 20 2017 - 3:17pm
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The Fundación para el Desarollo de Políticas Sustentables (FUNDEPS) proposes quotas as a way to ensure that males to not have a majority in politics in comparison to female politicians. This issue of unequal political representation arises after the recent resolution officially ruled by the...
Published: Jul 20 2017 - 3:12pm
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On 29 June 2017, Kituo cha Sheria collaborated with the Kisumu Maximum Prison - Kodiaga Prison Justice Center in Kenya to commemorate the Access to Justice Day. This day was not only a celebration, but also meant to empower the prisoners to enable them with the access to justice and include an...
Published: Jul 20 2017 - 2:57pm
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Ekta Parishad is preparing to launch a new campaign for poor and marginalized people called Jai Jagat 2020. “Jagat,” in Hindi, means “all people in the world”.
Ekta Parishad has, since its inception, focused on the lives of poor people and organization of marginalized communities and their...
Published: Jul 20 2017 - 12:21pm
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The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) recently published a report, Capacity and Consent: Empowering Adolescents to Exercise their Reproductive Rights, highlighting the importance for countries to acknowledge that their human rights be fully recognized and realized within global arenas and at the...
Published: Jul 18 2017 - 12:28pm
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As part of a coalition engaging in advocacy action with the European Parliament, the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) contributed to the development of a letter to the members of the European Parliament regarding the right to energy for all Europeans.
The letter informes that up to 125 million...
Published: Jul 13 2017 - 11:42am
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On 28 and 29 June 2017, the Dullah Omar Institute, with the help of funding from the Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA), hosted a training workshop for community leaders on the access to justice as part of their Socio-Economic Rights Project. This was a continuation of the Community...
Published: Jul 11 2017 - 2:01pm
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The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) has sent its alternative report on the rights of persons with disabilities to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Bulgaria has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in January 2012. The first review of...
Published: Jul 11 2017 - 1:42pm
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The Corporate Responsibility Coalition (CORE) collaborated with Anti-Slavery International, Unicef UK, and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre to produce three short briefings for businesses explaining the expectations of businesses in reference to modern slavery legislation. These brief...
Published: Jul 11 2017 - 1:15pm
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Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) collaborated with Indigenous Women’s Network of Thailand (IWNT) to submit a joint shadow report on behalf of indigenous women in Thailand for the upcoming July 2017 session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
The...
Published: Jun 23 2017 - 1:31pm
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