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human rights Tracking Climate Action
Climate
Insights
April 6, 2021

A Just Transition to a Zero-carbon World Is Possible. Here’s How.

  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • human rights
  • renewable energy
two men installing solar panels
  • climate change
  • fossil fuels
  • human rights
  • renewable energy
Governance
Insights
February 11, 2021

5 Lessons for Securing Women’s Collective Land Rights

  • Governance
  • Forests
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • land tenure
Community forest
  • Governance
  • Forests
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • land tenure
Governance
News
January 22, 2021

STATEMENT: Escazú Agreement Moves A Big Step Closer to Making the World Safer for Environmental Defenders

  • governance
  • human rights
  • resource rights
  • governance
  • human rights
  • resource rights
Governance
Insights
October 22, 2020

Pollution Is a Racial Justice Issue. Let’s Fight it that Way.

  • human rights
  • pollution
Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate
  • human rights
  • pollution
Governance
Insights
October 15, 2020

Mongolia Shows How to Fight for Environmental Justice

  • access to justice
  • access to information
  • human rights
  • pollution
Mongolia
  • access to justice
  • access to information
  • human rights
  • pollution
Governance
Insights
September 21, 2020

Rural Women Must Be at the Heart of COVID-19 Response and Recovery

  • Governance
  • Commentary
  • coronavirus
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
Manioc farmer
  • Governance
  • Commentary
  • coronavirus
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
Ocean
Insights
August 17, 2020

The Impact of Organized Crime in Fisheries Extends Far Beyond the Ocean

  • sustainable development goals
  • fisheries
  • human rights
  • oceans
A small fishing boat floating in the ocean.
  • sustainable development goals
  • fisheries
  • human rights
  • oceans
Water
Insights
December 5, 2019

We Predicted Where Violent Conflicts Will Occur in 2020. Water Is Often a Factor

  • conflict
  • water scarcity
  • human rights
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress
Mali water
  • conflict
  • water scarcity
  • human rights
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress
Governance
Latin America
Insights
November 27, 2019

Chile’s Protests Offer Lessons on Social Inequality and Climate Action

  • Climate
  • COP25
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • poverty
Protests in Santiago, Chile
  • Climate
  • COP25
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • poverty
Cities
Latin America
Insights
November 1, 2019

What Chile’s Protests Reveal About the Country’s Transport Inequalities

  • Urban Mobility
  • human rights
  • transport
  • transportation
Chile protests
  • Urban Mobility
  • human rights
  • transport
  • transportation
Governance
Insights
August 8, 2019

The IPCC Calls for Securing Community Land Rights to Fight Climate Change

  • Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • IPCC
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • restoration
Women of Peru's Awajun Native Community of Shampuyacu
  • Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • IPCC
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • restoration
Governance
Insights
July 10, 2019

Climate Action Will Shape People’s Lives. They Should Have a Chance to Shape Climate Action

  • Governance
  • Climate
  • long-term strategies
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
climate migration
  • Governance
  • Climate
  • long-term strategies
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • Climate Equity
  • climate change
  • environmental justice
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
Insights
April 5, 2019

Urban Transformations: In Durban, Informal Workers Design Marketplaces Instead of Getting Displaced by Them

  • Urban Transformations
  • Cities
  • human rights
  • South Africa
  • Urban Development
Warwick Junction
  • Urban Transformations
  • Cities
  • human rights
  • South Africa
  • Urban Development
Cities
Africa
Insights
April 3, 2019

Urban Transformations: In Tanzania’s Capital, Safer Children Mean Better Neighborhoods

  • Urban Transformations
  • health and road safety
  • human rights
  • poverty
  • public health
  • Urban Development
Children in Dar es Salaam
  • Urban Transformations
  • health and road safety
  • human rights
  • poverty
  • public health
  • Urban Development
Asia
Asia
Insights
March 25, 2019

Urban Transformations: In Pune, India, Waste Pickers Go from Trash to Treasure

  • Cities
  • Urban Transformations
  • waste
  • human rights
  • India
  • poverty
  • sustainable cities
Members of a waste-pickers cooperative push collection carts along the streets of Pune, India
  • Cities
  • Urban Transformations
  • waste
  • human rights
  • India
  • poverty
  • sustainable cities
Governance
Insights
December 7, 2018

The Yellow Vests Movement Isn’t Anti-Climate Action; It’s Pro-Social Justice

  • Climate
  • carbon pricing
  • COP24
  • climate change
  • human rights
Paris, France
  • Climate
  • carbon pricing
  • COP24
  • climate change
  • human rights
Water
Insights
November 5, 2018

UN Security Council Examines the Connection Between Water Risk and Political Conflict

  • Aqueduct
  • conflict
  • human rights
  • united nations
  • water
  • water risk
SDF fighters in central Raqqa
  • Aqueduct
  • conflict
  • human rights
  • united nations
  • water
  • water risk

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