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The fashion industry has always struggled to talk about the living wage in an open and consistent way. Two years ago, brands and retailers said it wasn’t a problem, or that if it was, it was somebody else’s. Last year they agreed that they ought to do something, but hadn’t quite got round to it (…)

In failing to tackle climate change with urgency, rich countries are effectively violating the human rights of millions of the world’s poorest people. Continued excessive greenhouse-gas emissions primarily from industrialised nations are – with scientific certainty – creating floods, droughts, (…)

Ce texte, du Mouvement des Sans Voix du Mali, nous propose de revenir sur la situation sociale, économique et politique de ce pays.
Le premier Président, Modibo Keita a opté, dans les années 60, pour une économie dirigée, dont l’Etat est le principal acteur dans tous les secteurs stratégiques (…)

Le FSM sort d’une séquence assez longue d’innovations importantes : Forum polycentrique (2007), première édition en Afrique (Nairobi, en 2007), journée mondiale d’action en 2008… Juste avant de partir pour Bamako, où se tenait l’une des éditions polycentrique, tu expliquais que le FSM était à la (…)

Depuis le 1er juin, la production et la distribution de sacs plastique ultrafins est interdite en Chine. Une mesure d’ampleur dans un pays où, selon l’agence environnementale chinoise, près de 3 milliards de sacs plastique seraient utilisés quotidiennement. Problème : les fabricants pourraient (…)

La llegada al gobierno paraguayo de Fernando Armindo Lugo le ha dado, en apenas poco más de una semana de gestión, un nuevo dinamismo al proceso integrador de la Cuenca del Plata comenzando por la revitalización de un antiguo tratado entre los tres países menores de la región, el URUPABOL (…)

Un rapport précurseur et audacieux intitulé Les entreprises face aux défis de la pauvreté : des stratégies gagnantes est rendu public aujourd’hui par le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD). Il propose des stratégies et des outils aux entreprises pour aller au-delà de leurs (…)

In September 2008, ministers from over 100 countries, heads of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, donor organizations, and civil society organizations from around the world will gather in Accra for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness.
This meeting has been promoted as (…)

Lebanon’s parliament has endorsed a plan to reform policy for science and technology.
The plans were part of a policy statement issued by the new national unity government, which won a vote of confidence in parliament last week (12 August).
The plan focuses on human resource development and (…)

Two Palestinian views
– The only alternative to two states is conflict
by Ghassan Khatib
Israel is interested in and working on a future for the Gaza Strip that is different from that of the West Bank. Read more
Two Israeli views
– One state definitely not an option (…)

Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, the more primordial problem has been the conversion of economies that are largely (…)

An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused by their comrades-in-arms, both at war and at home. This fact has received a fair amount of attention lately from researchers and the press — and deservedly so.
But the attention always focuses on the women: where they were when (…)

This booklet addresses the: Benefit of treating sanitation in human rights terms, Legal basis of the right to sanitation, State obligations and standards for differing environments, and Priority actions for governments and other stakeholders.
While there has been some progress on the (…)

Pacific NGOs, churches and trade unions working on trade justice issues are concerned about the push for free trade agreements in the Pacific and the grave risk that these agreements pose for our people. For much of the past decade Pacific Island Countries have faced pressure from our developed (…)

About 120 communication experts, meeting in Accra, have endorsed a blend of modern information and communication technologies with traditional and other alternative media forms to disseminate information for development in the globalised world.
The participants, from Africa, the Caribbeans and (…)

ESCR-Net’s Corporate Accountability Working Group is pleased to announce the release of its Collective Report on Business and Human Rights.
Presented directly to Members of the 8th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva during the first week of June 2008, this Collective Report on (…)

Fernando Lugo’s triumph in the Paraguayan presidential elections is historic, not only because it is the first time in the world that an ex-bishop has won a presidential election, but also because it marks the end of the Colorado Party’s hegemony, after more than sixty years in power. After his (…)

Acción por la Biodiversidad es una ONG que tiene por objeto promover la protección de la biodiversidad natural y agrícola en todas sus formas en Argentina y en latinoamérica a través de la realización de distintos tipos de actividades. Las tareas fundamentales de nuestra organización apuntan a (…)

Para la comunidad de las TIC para el desarrollo el tema de la piratería y el acceso al conocimiento cobra una relevancia cada vez mayor. Al tiempo que las nuevas leyes de derechos de autor van acompasándose con el panorama cambiante de la producción cultural digital, los pesos pesados de la (…)

Un nuevo informe publicado por el mayor organismo sindical mundial, la CSI, sobre las principales normas del trabajo en Singapur y que coincide con el Examen de las Políticas Comerciales de Singapur en la OMC, llama la atención sobre diversas restricciones a los derechos sindicales de los (…)