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Global Environment Facility tasks FAO and IFAD to lead new $230 million agrifood systems transformation program
Strengthening Australia’s relationship with Vietnam
ACT Greens welcome commitment to Right to Healthy Environment
Nurses call on all Australians to take action and eliminate violence against nurses
Saltmarsh ecosystems – helping to tackle climate change and protect coastal homes
Prime Minister concludes bilateral talks with Finnish PM
Two UN rights committees deplore refusal to cooperate and lack of information: Nicaragua
UN expert’s visit to focus on safe drinking water and sanitation: Peru
UN expert to visit Morocco to assess impact of poverty on human rights
Human rights experts support call for UN tax treaty
FAO and Pacific nations weigh local innovations as solutions to growing climate and nutrition challenges
Rome Water Dialogue highlights urgency of sustainably managing planet’s stressed water resources
UNHCR urges greater support as violence continues unabated in Burkina Faso
Uganda’s refugee response confronted by dire funding gap
UN Working Group on business and human rights to visit Luxembourg
UN expert on toxics and human rights to conduct fact-finding visit: Ghana
We all know Great Barrier Reef is in danger – UN has just confirmed it
UN must take immediate action to respond to human rights violations against children in Iran: Save Children
Statements: Reactive Monitoring Mission to Great Barrier Reef
We must urgently defend rights and lives of women human rights defenders
Civilian casualty update 28 November 2022: Ukraine
COP27: FAO highlighted importance of transforming agrifood systems as part of solution to climate crisis
UN experts call on South Sudan to investigate top government officials for their role in sexual violence
UN expert’s visit to assess situation of human rights defenders: Tajikistan
UN expert on cultural rights to visit Germany
Focus on capacity building at WHO’s Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health in Dhaka
New data tool explores where “food dollar” goes
Defending migrants’ human rights must not cost women their lives
Women’s participation is crucial to fight climate change
UN torture findings on Ashley can’t be ignored
Australia must show leadership on negotiating legally binding UN Global Plastics Treaty
Urgent need for UN Convention on Human Rights of Older Persons
Encouraged by progress but more needs to be done to prevent exploitation affecting marginalised, says expert
Comment by UN Rights Office Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on corporal punishment in Afghanistan Geneva,
Latest Taliban treatment of women and girls may be crime against humanity, say UN experts: Afghanistan
UN expert: Argentina’s pending debt is effective investigation and prevention of all unlawful deaths
Quadripartite welcomes new political commitments in fight against antimicrobial resistance
Animals are key to restoring world’s forests
UN Committee against Torture publishes findings on Australia, Chad, El Salvador, Malawi, Nicaragua, Somalia and Uganda
UN expert to examine sale and exploitation of children issues: Philippines
Missile strikes on Ukraine and alleged POW executions underscore why international law must be respected
Belarus’ withdrawal from individual complaints procedure serious setback for human rights protection, UN Human Rights Committee says
UN expert condemns targeting of prosecutor and judge: Guatemala
UNHCR warns rising tide of hunger, insecurity, and underfunding worsening gender-based violence risks
International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women
RSCA teams up with Woolworths in Swan Hill to fight worker exploitation
Ending violence against women and girls key to tackling global crises and achieving prosperity
UN expert hails women’s inclusion in government, urges action on persons with disabilities: Albania