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#human rights 新闻
Sports bans for trans women, anti-LGBTQ+ bills in Ghana and Kazakhstan and hope for intersex rights - some key issues to watch.
Campaigner Harjeet Singh was released on bail as India's Enforcement Directorate alleged that foreign funding for climate advocacy could expose the coutnry to legal challenges and undermine its energy security.
The US and other countries cut funding for LGBTQ+ rights as a global backlash spreads, but activists vow to keep up their work.
From flood control scandals that swallowed billions in public funds to Indigenous resistance against palm oil bulldozers, Eco-Business’ 10 most-read stories show how extreme weather, geopolitics and rushed renewables are sharpening the urgency – and complexity – of climate action across Asia.
#human rights 观点
The United Nations must clearly define the responsibility of the world's most powerful businesses to help tackle global challenges.
COP30 in Belém, Brazil, must boost action on the Escazú Agreement to protect nature’s last line of defence.
Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.
The initiatives in Singapore and Malaysia to protect gig workers could act as a model for emerging economies to regulate platform labour.
#human rights 视频
The veteran journalist talks to Eco-Business about how his Emmy-nominated documentary depicts the lives of environmental crusaders in Asia's deadliest country for guardians of the seas and forests.
On International Human Rights Day, Greenpeace releases shocking testimonies from Southeast Asian migrants working on board foreign fishing vessels, plying the remote waters to meet Asia's surging demand for seafood.
In the video, environmental law group ClientEarth compares the oil and gas giant's advertisements on its low-carbon investments to a burger chain claiming that they’re vegan because they’ve got salad on the menu.
Around the world, indigenous people have historically suffered from abuse and rights violations, despite being critical to forest conservation. This tribe in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, just won rights over its land after a 40-year struggle. Are governments waking up to the reality that indigenous groups could lead the battle against climate change?
#human rights 播客
The chief of a Manila-based nonprofit that advocates for climate finance transparency tells the EB Podcast that so-called Filipino resilience to natural disasters should not be an “excuse” for developers to dodge accountability for substandard flood control projects.
政策和金融
‘DIY until we die’? LGBTQ rights group on what Singapore’s new leadership means for its movement
LGBTQ people have long had to chart their own paths in the face of discrimination on bread and butter issues, like housing and employment. Pink Dot campaigners tell the Eco-Business Podcast their hopes amid a political leadership refresh.
政策和金融
‘Never give in to fear’: Nobel peace prize nominee and Filipino Indigenous leader Vicky Tauli Corpuz
In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.
The stories of Malaysia’s indigenous tribes are now being captured through the fresh lenses of young female filmmakers. In this bilingual podcast recorded in English and Bahasa Melayu, they tell Eco-Business why they've picked up the camera.
#human rights 新闻发布稿
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Environmental damage in Gaza harming human health, threatening long-term food, water security: UNEP
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Record military spending threatens global peace and development, UN warns
#human rights 研究
Emancipate Indonesia
#SaveSmallHands: the tobacco industry reaps double benefits from children
Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society (CAPS)
Public-private partnerships for social good
ACCA
Leading inclusion
Singapore International Water Week
SIWW 2018 Blue Paper: What will drive the next era of water management?
