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Tackling the trade law dimension of ‘land grabbing’
… about land grabbing. The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia found evidence of ‘serious and widespread’ human rights violations associated with land concessions. Litigation … to withdraw trade benefits in case of serious and systematic human rights abuses. Trade treaties signed by the EU with many countries …
Insight, 14 November 2013
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The Challenges of Managing Migration
… and economic growth in sending and receiving areas and reducing the human and material costs of movement means that fundamental challenges …
Publication, 01 October 2005
The New Enclosures? Polanyi, international investment law and the global land rush
… international investment law and growing recourse to international human rights law are creating new opportunities for reflecting the …
Publication, 01 November 2013
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Biofuels: making tough choices
Publication, 01 February 2008
An image of a deserted and war-torn street in Aleppo. Four years of fighting have left much of the Syrian city in ruins. The UN recently warned that up to 300,000 people could be left without food if the last flight route into eastern Aleppo is cut (Photo: Freedom House Salaheddin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Responding to cities under siege
… Aid (NPA) and partners such as the Afaq Academy have been documenting human rights abuses and violations of humanitarian laws in places such … estimates 152,893 casualties, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates at least 273,520 .  Aleppo is a major area of …
Insight, 21 April 2016
Farmers in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces in Southwestern China have responded to climatic adversity by innovating to increase productivity using less water (Image: IIED)
Why listen to and support the most vulnerable?
Insight, 02 October 2015
Man picking up fruits from a tree
Food insecurity: an appetite for change
… overflowing bins. Between 2010 and 2016, food waste generated 10% of human-made gas emissions. As 85% of waste in the US is created …
Insight, 12 August 2020
Toilet block and water tank
How small changes can make a big impact in achieving sustainable sanitation
… the pit away from the toilet floor – it avoids direct contact with human waste, decreasing the spread of diseases, and a separate …
Insight, 09 December 2020
More than 70 people joined the webinar about evaluation and voluntary national reviews. You can watch a recording of the webinar at the bottom of this page (Image: IIED)
Evaluations, reviews and assessments are key to embedding the SDGs
… step forward because it recognises the inter-relationships between human, economic development and the environment. However, in its …
Insight, 19 July 2017
Key role for biodiversity in the battle against poverty and climate change
… are threatened by policies that fail to treat the environment and human wellbeing as two sides of the same coin. Biodiversity includes the …
News, 15 October 2010