“Despite increased use of human rights language, a range of key EU development policies do not coherently or consistently reflect the applicable international human rights framework. Weaknesses include substitution of legally precise human rights terminology with vague formulations of language; misrepresenting the relationship between policy commitments such as the Millennium Development Goals and the legal obligations of human rights; failure to identify core development challenges, such as poverty as a denial of human rights, or to acknowledge the equal status of economic, social and cultural rights and civil and political rights.” (IHRN)
This briefing paper is the result of a joint initiative by Terre des Hommes International Federation, Action Aid International, Amnesty International EU Office and International Human Rights Network (IHRN). These four organisations have jointly funded the initiative, with this paper being researched and written by IHRN.
Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. and is emerging to be an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide.
Flood, storms, drought, land slides, and sea level rise have threatened millions else where in the world. They call it negative impact of climate change. What is the underneath reason of climate change? Is that green house gas emission or something else? Earth quakes one after another in Indonesia, tsunami in Samoa after 2004 wash away, Typhoon Parma following super Ketsana and the latest Mirinae, cyclone victims in Taiwan, unusual cyclone in Fiji, alarming phase of hurricane activity in North America, and frequent earth trembles have been very unkind with the inhabitants of earth these days.
“Visionaries In Our Midst: Ordinary People who are Changing our World” is Allison Silberberg’s inspiring collection of essays that profiles ordinary people who are changing our world. Silberberg shares the stories of individuals who identified critical needs in their communities and responded with courage and conviction.
The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can undermine those same rights of affected communities and can undermine conservation objectives.
Developing societies emerging from conflict and authoritarianism are frequently beset by poverty, inequality, weak institutions and insecurity. The same countries are also often the scene of massive human rights violations, which leave in their wake victims who are marginalized – people who have strong claims to justice. Yet those who work to address the interconnected concerns of development and justice do not always work together to provide coherent responses to the needs of transitional societies.
Rubayat Ahsan
