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- There is an urgent need for regulatory frameworks that put indigenous and local communities' land rights at the center of all action. This regulation should be consistent and align with other regulatory frameworks related to land, forest, agriculture, and mining.
Are the richest 1% worried about the planet?
As people are starving, they are polluting and profiting.
It is time to #TaxTheRich
Sign the petition: https://t.co/9Lr9AXwJFf
"This morning is one of the darkest in this seven-month long nightmare. Now we see the beginning of a military incursion. Rafah is in the crosshairs."
- @UNOCHA
"Aid must flow. Hostages must be freed. #Rafah must not be invaded. Children must stop being killed."
- @UNICEF
“There are children’s clothes, shoes, tooth brushes, hair brushes. Everything is just abandoned.”
– @UNRWA's Louise Wateridge amid the devastation Khan Younis.
Hostilities now threaten desperate people sheltering in Rafah.
Nowhere is safe in Gaza.
🇬🇫#FrenchGuiana
The 🇺🇳Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called on #France to respect the demands of the Kali'ña Indigenous community in the village of Prospérité, who oppose construction of a power plant ⚡️in a location that deprives them of access to their land
More: https://t.co/4EW3YAFa8m
"6 months on, we are at the brink of mass starvation, of regional conflagration, of a total loss of faith in global standards & norms."
-- @antonioguterres says it's time to silence the guns in Gaza to ease the suffering & prevent a potential famine. https://t.co/KQwr03M8yo
Today the UN Human Rights Council changed my title to Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Why does it matter?
For humanity, it's another sign that this human right is globally recognized as fundamental.
For me, a dream come true!
Now live from the Human Rights 75 – High-level Event in Geneva: Round table on the Future of Human Rights, the Environment and Climate. With Joan Carling of @IPRightsIntl
WebTV: https://t.co/WiE4hRLLEJ
HR75 Platform: https://t.co/lnIDoNsX9B
“In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth’s vital signs blinking red.” https://t.co/xjmIsOAu0f
We're in a climate emergency, there is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate#climate
🥳Our long-awaited compendium of legislation and jurisprudence is now online!
⬇️Download it and learn about the most relevant developments in the field of #IndigenousRights: https://t.co/jtRYi7jED7
📺You can also re-watch the launch: https://t.co/IqdaQIqa5O
#EMRIP2023
On 8 June 2023, #CEMSOJ inaugurated its 2nd Community-based Renewable Energy Project (#CbREP) - 6 kW Saleni Taar Pico #Hydropower Project at Khairang of Makawanpur district in southern #Nepal. The Project will bring stable hydroelectricity for first time for 40 to 60 families.
🇧🇻Ministry of Petroleum and Energy got occupied by @NaturogUngdom and Sámi youth NGO this morning, the government is on day 500 still not acknowledging that they lost the High Court decision #Fosendommen: on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples vs construction of wind power stations.
Timo's Nightmares of the Stolen Forest
A story about the erosion of #indigenous forests in southern #WestPapua, often done by the expansion of #agribusiness activities under the guise of #foodestate programmes.
The literal “sands of time” will run out without new thinking -- this new video, part of a wider push towards a #ZeroWaste world, sheds light on the problems associated with sand mining. #MI23
#Victory!
🇨🇩For DRCongo’s Indigenous #pygmy people, this is the first time that they are legally ⚖️recognized as a distinct people with rights and access to free, prior and informed consent before the government and industries can exploit their land.
👉https://t.co/9aweQxFMXJ