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This page include a collection of materials and resources explaining why coal is not a viable option for Kenya and other alternatives of embracing clean energy in Kenya.
Journalist and broadcaster Susan Bookbinder talks with four women about how they would like to see professionals hold sensitive conversations about female genital mutilation (FGM), including what actions to take to safeguard vulnerable girls.
UNICEF figures reveal that 70 million more women than previously thought have been cut. The UK’s leading FGM consultant Dr Comfort Momoh explains what FGM is and its consequences.
Kristina Touzenis, International Migration Law Unit, International Office for Migration, talks about the rights of migrants.
This video provides the full panel that occurred in April 2015 at Simon Fraser University in Canada. The different speakers talk on the accountability of Canadian companies abroad, the rights of indigenous groups in both a political and legal sense and the mindset of extractivism in Canada. There is a special focus on the different legal systems which arise in mining struggles – national, international and indigenous.
The environment can affect the ways in which we enjoy our human rights. Over 90 states have recognized a healthy environment in their constitutions. How we treat the environment directly affects the way we enjoy our human rights.
MOOC CHILE’s Introduction to Human Rights and Environment covers six points. 1. the concept of the environment. 2. the basis for the protection of the environment. 3. the protection of the environment as a human rights issue. 4. main international documents and treaties. 5. key environmental principles. 6. NGO’s
A conversation with Salvadoran human rights defenders Mirla Carbajal, lawyer with the Human Rights Institute of the Universidad Centroamericana, and Dina Cabrera, community activist and survivor of the Santa Cruz massacre; and Philippe Bourgois, Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology at UCLA and survivor of the Santa Cruz massacre.
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) gives an update on the status of key human rights cases in El Salvador and the capacity of the country’s criminal justice system to respond.