Monday, 8 March 2021, 1:28 pm
Family First NZ has joined forces with
104 sexual
exploitation survivors and 525 NGOs from 65
countries calling on the Canadian Government to
launch a criminal investigation into Pornhub-parent company
MindGeek.
The open
letter was submitted as part of the House of Commons
Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and
Ethics inquiry into MindGeek for allegations relating to
trafficking, under-age content and image-based abuse (see
transcript of evidence here).
The
inquiry followed the viral #Traffickinghub petition which
attracted more than two million signatures urging MindGeek
executives be held accountable for hosting child sexual
abuse material (CSAM), content using victims of trafficking
Friday, 26 February 2021, 5:19 pm
PAN Asia Pacific today (PANAP) joined civil society and
indigenous peoples’ organisations in formally
requesting to meet with the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) Director-General Qu Dongyu to discuss
widespread public concern with FAO’s announcement last
November of plans to formalize a partnership with CropLife
International the global trade association of the
world’s biggest agrochemical corporations.
The 11
organizations that co-sponsored the joint letter urged Qu to
immediately abandon FAO s strategic partnership with
CropLife. They asked FAO to instead develop an integrated
policy to prevent conflicts of interest to ensure that
corporate “solutions” are not influencing its work on
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, welcomed on Friday, progress on the investigation in Colombia of people falsely presented as having been killed in combat as 'an important step in fighting impunity'. So-called “false positives” cases .
At the end of a two-week visit to Venezuela, an independent UN human rights expert noted on Friday that unilateral sanctions imposed on the country have exacerbated pre-existing crises, calling for them to be dropped. “The devastating effect of .
Saturday, 13 February 2021, 4:07 pm
This year, instead of uninterrupted parties, the Carnival
in São Paulo will be marked by the “All for
Vaccines”campaign. Organized by scientific communication
institutions, such as Team Halo / United Nations (UN), the
COVID-19 Observatory, NPV/USP, Pro-vaccine Union, among
others -, the initiative will have its name painted on the
renowned “samba runway” at the São Paulo Sambadrome on
Friday, February 12. The conclusion of the artistic
intervention is scheduled for Saturday morning, when
distinguished representatives of samba schools will be
attending the event to represent a very small glimpse of
what would have taken place in the sambadrome at this time