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COP30 and the future of Europe and Central Asia’s just energy transition

As world leaders convene for COP30, action to curb deadly climate change is still too slow across the globe, including in ...
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Transition minerals, old inequalities in Brazil: Mining, justice and the climate agenda at COP30

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Climate solutions for all? Southeast Asia’s nickel boom offers lessons for COP30

Supposed solutions to the climate crisis must not come at the expense of the environment and human rights. For JETP countries ...
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Civil society leads the way to human rights-based corporate regulation in Colombia

Explore the big challenges, opportunities, debates and frameworks for business and human rights. This section contains a ...
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EU: Meta and TikTok found in breach of Digital Services Act

The commission found this amounted to a breach of the company’s obligations under the EU-wide Digital Services Act (DSA), and ...
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Bangladesh: 'Massive victory' as mass criminal cases filed against 48,000 garment workers are dropped

Workers’ rights campaigners have welcomed a decision by Bangladesh’s interim government to drop outstanding criminal cases against more than 48,000 garment workers who were arrested during pay ...
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Spain: Government cancels $1.1B arms deals with Israeli firms, plans military tech disengagement & sanctions, amid unfolding genocide in Gaza

Spain has canceled two contracts with Israeli companies worth almost €1 billion (approximately $1.18 billion) in a move followed by the prime minister's recently announced measures against Tel Aviv.
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Brazil: Government demands that Meta remove AI chatbots that simulate sexual conversations while using child-like language and appearance

...The Brazilian government has formally demanded that Meta, the company responsible of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, remove artificial intelligence chatbots that simulate sexual conversations ...
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Australia: Coles and Woolworths’ AI adoption drives layoffs as unions call for worker protections and upskilling

Australian supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths are rapidly adopting AI and automation, streamlining operations like self-checkouts and inventory management but triggering widespread layoffs amid ...
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Australia: Stolen wages class action lawsuits allegedly generating significant profits for lawyers & funders; far smaller sums going to compensate claimants

For Minnie McDonald, the class action represented hope — justice after decades of unpaid work. The lawsuit was supposed to right a wrong, provide compensation for thousands of Aboriginal workers who ...
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Lesotho: Thousands sue Lesotho the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority over decades of unpaid compensation

The Katse Dam, the largest in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) and a key water source for the Vaal Dam, which provides all Johannesburg’s drinking water, is at the centre of a constitutional ...
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S. Korea: Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence bill marks first push under new government

On 13 June 2025, Rep. Jung Tae-ho (Democratic Party, Gwanak-eul, Seoul) has reintroduced the “Legislative Bill for the Act on the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment for Sustainable ...