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.
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