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Indigenous Women’s Network of Thailand (IWNT) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) jointly submitted the NGO CEDAW Shadow Report on behalf of indigenous women in Thailand. The submission was made in July 2017 to the UN Committee on CEDAW, and addresses land and natural resources as well as...
Published: Jul 18 2017 - 11:55am
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The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) submitted a Shadow Report to the United Nations Committee On The Elimination Of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The submission, made in 2012, addresses the right to adequate housing as well as land and ownership rights...
Published: Jul 18 2017 - 10:39am
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FLORAISON, GRADSE and RAPDA-Togo, with the support of FIAN International, submitted an alternative written report on behalf of rural women in Gnita, Togo. The submission was made in October 2012 to the UN Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (...
Published: Jul 18 2017 - 10:27am
The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), in October 2012, submitted a Shadow Report to the United Nations Committee On The Elimination Of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Equatorial Guinea. This submission addresses the right to adequate housing and the right...
Published: Jul 17 2017 - 3:42pm
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The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), in October 2012, submitted a Shadow Report to the United Nations Committee On The Elimination Of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This submission addresses the right to adequate housing and the right to land and other...
Published: Jul 17 2017 - 3:32pm
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Global Witness, the author of the report, Defenders of the Earth, showcases their research on the 200 land and environmental defenders’ deaths in 2016. The increasing suppression of environmental and land rights activism in many countries is spreading, and their right to physical protest is...
Published: Jul 13 2017 - 4:06pm
Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth-U.S., Sierra Club, and the WWF European Policy Office with the assistance of other NGOs collaborated to produce a report on the ill-effects of environmental over-exploitation. The publication, titled “Talk is Cheap: How G20 Governments are Financing...
Published: Jul 11 2017 - 3:57pm
Citizens for Justice (CFJ) published this report in 2014, as a way to explore how effective Malawi’s economic growth is due to their abundant supply of natural resources, specifically oil. Malawi’s government developed an Economic Recovery Plan (ERP), launched in 2012, as an attempt to meaningfully...
Published: Jul 11 2017 - 2:36pm
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The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) made its submission to the United Nations Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The submission was a "Shadow Report to the UN CEDAW Angola" and focused on women's...
Published: Jul 10 2017 - 1:43pm
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The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) made a submission to the UN Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) titled "Shadow Report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against...
Published: Jul 10 2017 - 12:15pm
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