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Business, Human Rights and Conflict Affected Regions: Towards Heightened Action Format Distinguished participants, colleagues, and friends, Warm welcome to all. Please allow me to begin by thanking our keynote speaker, Professor Anita Ramasastry of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, as well as our discussants for joining us to chart the next steps on the relationship between Business, Human Rights and Conflict. Businesses can play a large role during security crises and in their...

Distinguished participants, colleagues, and friends, Warm welcome to all. Please allow me to begin by thanking our keynote speaker, Professor Anita Ramasastry of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, as well as our discussants for joining us to chart the next steps on the relationship between Business, Human Rights and Conflict. Businesses can play a large role during security crises and in their aftermath. While they can make positive contributions and be engines of peace and deve...

Simone Galimberti is Co-Founder of ENGAGE, a not-for-profit NGO in Nepal. He writes on volunteerism, social inclusion, youth development and regional integration as an engine to improve people’s lives. Rural woman farmer Chandra Kala Thapa works in the fields near Chatiune Village, Nepal. Over $39 million has been earmarked by a UN-backed fund to combat effects of climate change in Nepal. Credit: UN Women/Narendra Shrestha KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 16 2021 (IPS) - Raju Pandit Chhetri is one of t...

04. December 2020 Erwin Flender Awarded RWTH Honorary Doctorate On November 6, 2020, the Rector of the RWTH Aachen University awarded our Chairman Dr. Erwin Flender the distinction and academic degree of "Honorary Doctor of Engineering Sciences." This honor is in recognition of his outstanding engineering and entrepreneurial achievements in the field of modeling and simulation of metal casting processes and for his high level of social commitment, especially for his dedication to sup...

One Way or Another, Everything Changes The following is excerpted from “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” by Naomi Klein. Copyright © 2014 by Naomi Klein. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Rights Reserved. “Most projections of climate change presume that future changes—greenhouse gas emissions, temperature increases and effects such as sea level rise—will happen incrementally. A given amount of emission will lead to a given amount of...

04. December 2020 Erwin Flender Awarded RWTH Honorary Doctorate On November 6, 2020, the Rector of the RWTH Aachen University awarded our Chairman Dr. Erwin Flender the distinction and academic degree of "Honorary Doctor of Engineering Sciences." This honor is in recognition of his outstanding engineering and entrepreneurial achievements in the field of modeling and simulation of metal casting processes and for his high level of social commitment, especially for his dedication to sup...

2020: Anchor for Zim’s success Lovemore Chikova Development Dialogue Covid-19 hit our shores with devastating consequences in 2020, affecting business and ultimately slowing the development trajectory set by President Mnangagwa’s Government. We are not yet out of the woods with regards to this disease, but there is hope and optimism that 2021 will bring better tidings. Although Covid-19 played some tricks on the country, it was not all doom and gloom when it came to the implementation of de...

04. December 2020 Erwin Flender Awarded RWTH Honorary Doctorate On November 6, 2020, the Rector of the RWTH Aachen University awarded our Chairman Dr. Erwin Flender the distinction and academic degree of "Honorary Doctor of Engineering Sciences." This honor is in recognition of his outstanding engineering and entrepreneurial achievements in the field of modeling and simulation of metal casting processes and for his high level of social commitment, especially for his dedication to sup...

04. December 2020 Erwin Flender Awarded RWTH Honorary Doctorate On November 6, 2020, the Rector of the RWTH Aachen University awarded our Chairman Dr. Erwin Flender the distinction and academic degree of "Honorary Doctor of Engineering Sciences." This honor is in recognition of his outstanding engineering and entrepreneurial achievements in the field of modeling and simulation of metal casting processes and for his high level of social commitment, especially for his dedication to sup...