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Latvia calls for boosting UN human rights system, preventing repressions against civil society - foreign minister 2021-02-23 LETA/TBT Staff RIGA - Latvia calls for strengthening the UN human rights system and preventing repressions against civil society, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics (New Unity) said while participating in the High Level Segment of the 46th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) via video link. As LETA was told at the Foreign Ministry, in his speech at the session, Rinkevics particularly called attention to increasing reprisals against civil society and the deteriora...

Date Time Regional meeting focuses on service delivery The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Regional Association for North America, Central America and the Caribbean (RAIV) has held a virtual session with a focus on how to improve service delivery, disaster risk reduction, and climate resilience. Evan G. Thompson, Permanent Representative of Jamaica, and Luz Graciela Calzadilla, Permanent Representative of Panama, were elected respectively president and vice president at the meeting, which took place from 8 to 11 February, with nearly 150 participants. Implementation of WMO reform in ...

This WCEF 2021 Side Event will be a solutions-oriented, interactive, virtual workshop focused on the ‘Innovation Pathways’ to achieving a more circular plastics economy in Canada – based on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s (EMF) handbook: “Upstream Innovation: a guide to packaging solutions”. The workshop will feature a keynote from EMF’s Innovation Team, combined with other expert insights into practical applications of upstream innovation for plastics packaging, and six interactive breakout sessions that will allow participants to strategize together on how to scale ideas and ...

Fighting systemic racism in the digital age: a global challenge 9 December 2020 | 11:47 pm   selection and appointment process.  The past year marked a global reckoning with racism, and the conversation about how to address systemic racism is among the most important to emerge from 2020. Research continues to expose how some uses of new technology — including artificial intelligence — are building an invisible infrastructure for oppression, which can serve to entrench white supremacy and racial discrimination in our societies.  That is why today — on Human Rights Day — ...

Perspective. this is basically a side event. just the tip of a much larger iceberg. mccabe is one of the central figures in using the awesome powers we give to the department of justice, the fbi, and our intelligence agencies to concoct a sham investigation of the trump campaign and later the administration. over charges stemming from a dossier they knew to be false at the time. the next inspector general report will start to look at the abuse of the fisa, the secret court system, by people like mccabe. that will be for more significant, because it was a direct assault on our democratic instit...