PARTNER HIGHLIGHTS

Saferworld, Interpeace, Life & Peace Institute and Humanity United have submitted a set of recommendations and perspectives from civil society peacebuilding organizations to help inform the United Nations' New Agenda for Peace process.

The submission, summarized here, calls for safeguarding and expanding civic space, large increases in the quality and quantity of the U.N.'s support for local peacebuilding organizations, dedicated resources at the intersections of conflict and climate, and a thorough review of all the U.N.'s partnership strategies, with the goal of addressing relationship inequalities. You can read the full statement at Saferworld's website.

The Pulitzer Center spoke with survivors of trafficking and deception in a new report on human rights abuses and organized cyber-crime taking place in Myanmar.

Graça Machel, first Education Minister of Mozambique and co-founder of The Elders, has written about Nelson Mandela's legacy and the vital need for women's leadership in the movement for peace, particularly amid nuclear threats.

Registration is open for the Business & Human Rights Resource Center's annual Mary Robinson speaker series webinar, this year focused on strategies to put an end to forced labor by enforcing better regulation to stop corporate impunity.

The Institute for Human Rights and Business published an op-ed from Senior Advisor Salil Tripathi on the need to focus on human rights in the curricula of business schools.
 



WHAT'S HAPPENING AT HU
 

Humanity United commissioned a Grantee Perception Report to gather feedback from grantee partners on our performance and our relationship with their organizations. Srik Gopal, Managing Partner and Sandy Nathan, Managing Director of Operations wrote about what we've learned from what our partners told us.
HU Senior Manager, Racial Justice & Equity Demetria Jackson will be an honoree at the 2023 Lit in DC awards, and has been selected to be a part of the next cohort of the Rockwood Equity in Philanthropy Fellowship. Congratulations Demetria! 

HU has joined Threads, a new social media platform; you can find us here.



OTHER NEWS & VIEWS

The Atlantic Council is providing invaluable analysis of the ongoing crisis in Niger. You can read their answers to some of the most important ongoing questions here.

Fiona Jackson from TechHQ has an important read on how worker shortages may exacerbate forced labor and worker exploitation in an industry already rife with it. 

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