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Scaling up CRAFT and Fairmined initiatives for responsible gold in Honduras
… can be used to finance armed groups, fuel forced labour and other human rights abuses, and support corruption and money laundering. The … mining; poor environmental, health and safety practices; human rights abuses; environmental degradation; and a largely unskilled …
Project, 17 November 2021
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Improving community attitudes towards conservation: learning from efforts to address wildlife crime in Uganda
Publication, 30 September 2021
A concerete mixing lorry drives under an arch that has the words 'Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone' written on it
Special economic zones: a rights perspective
… operation of SEZs affect land rights both within and around the zones Human rights and labour rights in SEZs, and The articulation between …
Project, 22 December 2021
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Climate-induced migration and modern slavery
… borders in search of resources and income, making them vulnerable to human trafficking and modern slavery, including forced labour. A new …
Event, 20 September 2021
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Negotiators return to the high seas
… and capacity building and marine technology transfer. ABMTs regulate human activity in a particular area of the ocean. They range from … biodiversity by preventing overexploitation and limiting negative human impacts on marine ecosystems. Area-based management of the high … in LDCs, and which coastal LDCs are most vulnerable to the impacts of human activities in the high seas. Prioritising areas for management …
Insight, 07 March 2022
Women and men fishers lean over a boat gathering their catch at the side of a body of water.
Interviews: UN Ocean Conference frustrates small-scale fishers
… to people’s nutrition, food security, sustainable livelihoods and human wellbeing. The UN Ocean Conference (UNOC)  earlier this year …
Article, 02 September 2022
Man in black jacket walking among temporary tents and shelters.
How can we achieve a world without long-term refugee camps?
… crisis has become protracted. Speakers Lucy Earle  is director of the Human Settlements research group at IIED and lead for the 'protracted …
Event, 27 September 2023
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Tenure rights and obligations: towards a more holistic approach to land governance
… and natural resource law – and international law, particularly on human rights, the environment, and foreign investment.  The study does …
Publication, 28 July 2021
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IIED at Stockholm+50
… Stockholm+50  commemorated the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and celebrated 50 years of global environmental …
Event, 02 June 2022
An aerial view of a refugee camp, with housig stretching over a vast area in the desert.
Life much tougher for refugees living in camps rather than cities
… in makeshift shelters.  Lucy Earle, acting director of research on human settlements at IIED, said: “In many parts of the world, setting up …
News, 06 December 2022