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            <title>Ending Impunity and Inequality</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[41 G7 energy-billionaires have increased their wealth by $23.5-billion since the unlawful US and Israel war against Iran began, reveals new Oxfam analysis published ahead of the G7 summit in Evian, France. This is equivalent to about $1 000 in the time it takes to blink.-billionaires globally have gained $9.8-trillion since 2020. Soaring energy and food prices are devastating households worldwide, particularly across low- and middle-income countries already battered by years of economic turmoil, debt crises, and climate shocks.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite record global energy investment reaching $3.3 trillion, energy transition progress is fragmenting as geopolitical tensions, infrastructure bottlenecks and rising energy demand expose vulnerabilities in the global transition. Written by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Accenture, the Energy Transition Index 2026 tracks energy transition progress across 120 countries, measuring both how energy systems perform today and whether the conditions for future progress are in place ...]]></description>
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            <title>Gender equality and the climate crisis: resolutions at the Human Rights Council</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Since 2008, the Human Rights Council (HRC) has brought a human rights lens to climate action, playing a leading role in analysing and recognising the links between climate change and human rights. However, less is known about how the HRC addresses gender and climate change as an interconnected issue - that is, how it considers the specific dynamics and impacts that emerge at the intersection of gender inequality and climate change.]]></description>
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            <title>Eight considerations for adaptation finance quality discussions</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The past two years have seen the international community make a number of commitments to scale up climate finance flows, particularly to communities which are most vulnerable to climate and economic shocks. At COP30, Parties made a political commitment to at least triple adaptation finance within ten years. The year before, Parties agreed the New Collective Quantified Goal to mobilise $300-billion a year by 2035 with a wider aim to scale up financing for climate action to $1.3-trillion a year over the same time frame. These milestones were reached at a time of decreasing development cooperation and shifting geopolitical priorities. With pressure to reach these targets growing while development finance becomes more constrained, this paper asks: what does efficient and strategic allocation of quality finance for adaptation looks like?]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In 2025, global turmoil and compounding crises pushed children’s needs to record levels while the resources to help them dropped dramatically. Sudden and steep global funding cuts forced agonising choices. Which lives to prioritise? Which services to scale back? Despite the challenges, UNICEF continued to deliver – in crises and beyond. In 2025, our staff and partners responded to emergencies in more than 100 countries, reaching tens of millions of children with life-saving health care, nutrition, immunisation, education, protection, safe water and sanitation.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Without economic growth, incomes cannot rise sustainably, and growth cannot be sustained without investment. South Africa's Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) sits at 14% of GDP, a rate which has been insufficient to replenish South Africa's depreciating capital stock.' This means our public Infrastructure has deteriorated and our growth potential has declined. This report argues that Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) regulations have been a key policy contributing to making South Africans of all races worse off than they would otherwise have been. It is worth being precise about what South Africa Is trying to achieve with B-BBEE, and what B-BBEE actually is.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[This Roadmap was developed in fulfilment of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, in accordance with Council resolution 53/10, which tasked him with providing advice to States on the eradication of extreme poverty in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The Roadmap also aims to assist States in implementing the Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, adopted by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 21/11 and which the General Assembly welcomed in its resolution 67/164 of 20 December 2012.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[This report documents Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the occupied West Bank. It examines the forced displacement of communities through state-backed settler violence, the destruction of homes and livelihoods, the expansion of illegal settlements and outposts, the role of Israeli forces and authorities in facilitating and participating in settler attacks, and the systematic impunity enjoyed by perpetrators.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) Eastern Cape Provincial Office today released its Investigation Report into the ongoing water, sanitation and wastewater crisis affecting residents of Makana Municipality. The investigation was conducted in terms of section 184 of the Constitution, the South African Human Rights Commission Act 40 of 2013 and section 7.2.5 of the Commission's Complaints Handling Procedures. The report follows more than three years of complaints, monitoring activities, stakeholder engagements, two subpoena hearings, sworn testimony, documentary evidence and submissions received from residents, government departments, Rhodes University, the Auditor-General of South Africa and other stakeholders. The Commission received more than 30 complaints between 2023 and 2026 relating to prolonged water outages, sewage spillages, sanitation failures and deteriorating infrastructure.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz are sending shockwaves through the global energy system. Vulnerable economies are on the front line: of 75 economies – least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS) – 65 depend on imported oil.]]></description>
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