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Driving forward peacekeeping reform through practical recommendations that address today’s challenges Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the C34 Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations Opening Plenary and General Debate From: Thank you Mr Chair, and please accept my congratulations on your re-election. I want to start by commending the dedication and courage of all our personnel in the field, and to pay tribute to the memory of the 129 peacekeepers who lost their lives in 2020. In the last year, the Covid-19 pandemic has only added to the range of challenges our peacekeepe...

Monitoring and Evaluation Job in Kenya about Food and Nutrition, Protection and Human Rights and Water Sanitation Hygiene, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from CARE; closing on 29 Jan 2021

Preparation for entry into force of the Taxonomy Regulation Preparation for entry into force of periodic reporting obligations and Level 2 Measures under the SFDR The Cross Border Distribution Regulation sets down specific conditions that all marketing communications addressed to investors must comply with. These include an obligation to ensure that all information contained in marketing communications is fair, clear and not misleading and does not contradict or diminish the significance of information contained in the fund prospectus. They must also provide investors with a hyperlink to a su...

Campaign group puts more pressure on JBS and Cargill to address deforestation The rapid clearance of forests and native vegetation to produce soy and beef for meat consumption continues, complains a new report from Mighty Earth. That’s despite commitments for a decade from supermarkets and consumer goods companies to end deforestation associated with their supply chains, the campaign group said. Figures from the Brazilian space institute INPE in November 2020 showed that at least 11,088 square-kilometres of rainforest in the Amazon was razed from August 2019 to J...

internet overseer ICANN to reclaim the .nu top-level domain. The .nu domain has never been in the hands of the Niuean people, with control currently resting with the Internet Foundation of Sweden (IIS), the body in charge of that country’s .se space. “This is the big one,” says Pär Brumark, the Swedish domains expert who is leading a delegation on behalf of Niue to claim its space. This article was originally published in BI Australia by Jack Kerr. A tiny island microstate has today launched proceedings that could have profound repercussions for who controls the internet. The Govern...