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A new video about Young cooperators in the world
11 de Novembro de 2015, 19:12 - sem comentários aindaPrecarious work, not in line with their studies, a lack of independence…According to the latest numbers from the OECD, at least 75 million youths in the world are unemployed, while others are now creating tools to decide of their own future by building worker cooperatives or social cooperatives. Today the film “Working together for a cooperative future” has been launched in the framework of the Global conference of the International Cooperative Alliance in Antalya (Turkey) in front of 300 cooperators.
- News / PortadaSDG indicators: Counting the trees, hiding the forest
11 de Novembro de 2015, 18:20 - sem comentários ainda
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After a two days meeting in Bangkok, at the end of October, the statistical experts of the UN agencies have come with a controversial list of 159 “generally agreed” indicators to measure the Sustainable Development Goals approved last September by the UN.
Traditionally, development agencies have tried to summarize in a single indicator or index complex development goals. Thus, UNICEF emphasized infant mortality as a proxy indicator of its mandate to protect children, the World Bank has traditionally equated development with per capita income, and UNDP enriched that idea with its Human Development Index based on a larger but still reduced set of indicators. Those single figures were considered to correlate so closely with other relevant indicators (for example infant mortality correlates with child underweight) that they were considered as useful to represent broad trends, progress or regression, in realities that everybody understood as being complex.
Immediate and unconditional release of Hossam Bahgat and all HRD in detention in Egypt
11 de Novembro de 2015, 18:00 - sem comentários ainda
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The arbitrary detention of Hossam Bahgat, (the founder of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, an independent Egyptian human rights organization and a journalist at Mada Masr, an online news site), on November 9th, 2015 is a mere reflection of the crackdown on civil rights in Egypt and the grim truth about the restricted enjoyment of the ‘’freedom’’ of expression and opinion in the country, that is essentially guaranteed by the Egyptian Constitution Article 651 and Article 19th of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, that Egypt is party to.
Are infrastructure investors exempt from human rights duties? The G20 surely thinks so…
11 de Novembro de 2015, 17:47 - sem comentários ainda
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With this year’s Business and Human Rights Forum (November 16-18) scheduled to take place at almost the same time as the Group of 20 Summit (November 14-15), the temptation to highlight the dissonance between what is happening in each of these venues is just too great to resist.
At the Forum on Business and Human Rights, the main theme will revolve around a report on measuring implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (“Guiding Principles”), submitted last July by the Working Group on Business and Human Rights.
Finnish Students Visit UNRISD
11 de Novembro de 2015, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaStudents Emma Sokkanen and Olga Ylönen from Finland spent a day shadowing UNRISD communications staff and meeting with researchers. The visit aimed to increase interest among upper secondary students for international organizations and raise awareness about global issues.During the day they got an overview of UNRISD’s working life. Emma and Olga learned about the research process by talking to researchers.
