Call for Bids
The British Embassy in Guatemala City is now accepting project and activity proposals for the 2021/2022 financial year.
Thematic areas
This year, the British Embassy is seeking to support short- term projects in Guatemala and Honduras that focus on the following thematic areas:
Open societies (democracy, human rights, media freedom) – for example: strengthened democratic governance and rule of law; increased equality and non-discrimination for women and vulnerable groups and strengthened media freedom.
Climate change and biodiversity- for example: strengthened efforts to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss and strengthening resilience to the effects of climate change.
We are particularly interested in short- term interventions aimed at the following outcomes:
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09:30 | Lima, May. 21. The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Minjusdh) and the Regional Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for South America have signed a letter of intent to strengthen technical cooperation between both institutions.
The letter was digitally signed on Wednesday by Peru s Justice and Human Rights Minister of Eduardo Vega and OHCHR s South America Representative Jan Jarab.
The digital signatures were produced in Lima (Eduardo Vega) and Chile (Jan Jarab).
This agreement seeks to promote the rule of law, the full enforcement of human rights, and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, in full compliance with the commitments arising from human rights treaties.
Brazil is a global standout in the fight against modern slavery. Since 1995, when the Brazilian government acknowledged the existence of the problem in the country and set up the institutional architecture and devoted resources to combat slave labor, more than 55,000 individuals have been removed from conditions analogous to slavery in Brazil. Brazil’s extraordinary achievements with addressing cases of slavery in the past twenty-five years were facilitated by innovative and effective initiatives that seek to root out the problem. An example is the renowned “dirty list” a public register of entities found to employ slave labor in their supply chains which has proven to be an effective naming and shaming tool to hold businesses responsible for the incidence of slavery in their supply chains. Brazil is also well ahead of other nations on providing publicly available data that illustrates the nature and extent of modern slavery. Such initiatives as the Labour Inspection Secreta
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council endorsed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to promote responsible business practices with three key pillars including State’s duty to protect human rights in business operations, businesses’ responsibility to respect human rights, and both to provide remedies when violations occur. Since 2020, Covid-19 pandemic is causing more frequent human rights violations globally including Mongolia in public, social and business spheres requiring timely and urgent solutions.
Today, UNDP Mongolia officially launched the “Business and Human Rights in Asia: Enabling Sustainable Economic Growth through the Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework” programme funded by the European Union Partnership Instrument and co-implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia with the support from the UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub and Business and Human Rights Asia Pro
Government hands over anti-trafficking report to US
Government hands over anti-trafficking report to US
THAILAND: A report has submitted by Thailand to the US detailing its anti-human trafficking efforts in the hope of being upgraded from Tier 2 to Tier 1 in Washington’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, due for release in June.
Deputy government spokeswoman Rachada Dhnadirek. Photo: Government House.
Deputy government spokeswoman Rachada Dhnadirek said the government was aiming for Tier 1 after being ranked in Tier 2 for three consecutive years.
Tier 1 lists countries whose governments fully comply with the minimum standards set out in the US’ Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), while Tier 2 applies to governments that do not fully comply with the minimum standards, but which are making efforts to bring themselves into compliance.