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Man wearing a mask on a protest march carries a sign, with a pink background, saying: "There is no pride on a dead planet".
Queering climate justice − what climate justice can learn from queer groups
… colonialism and capitalism as root causes of climate injustice. Many rights-based movements, including civil rights, queer rights and women’s rights … ways of being including different understandings of nature and human relationships, concepts of justice and environmental governance. …
Insight, 21 September 2023
Young man with blue and pink dreadlocks surrounded by a crowd wearing pride colours
Heteronormativity in development – what does queer have to do with it?
… intersex or another gender/sexual minority (LGBTQI+). Outside LGBTQI+ rights and sexual health programming, the unwritten rules of … and gender diversity are considered ‘too political’ or questions of human and civil rights. This results in the passive exclusion of gender … projects or resilience initiatives? Too often, decisions are based on only anecdotal evidence or small-scale studies. Meanwhile, …
Insight, 14 December 2022
Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Water and land rights – hand-in-hand for sustainable development
… coordinator of the Global Water Initiative (GWI) in West Africa , based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, I travelled to Stockholm with … development and poverty eradication', which focused on water and land rights. One of our main messages based on lessons learnt was that if … The right to food was referred to in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the human right to water recognised in 2010 by …
Insight, 25 September 2015
Men posing for a photo while constructing a weir with bamboo structures.
CBA14: explore with us how nature-based solutions support local action for adaptation
Insight, 21 August 2020
Landscape of fields and forest
Q&A: Negotiating a new biodiversity deal that works for Indigenous Peoples
Article, 09 August 2021
A view from high up of a city with tower blocks, framed by the sky.
Can global reporting bring about transformation?
… this report play in shifting political power in ways that advance human rights and disrupt the trends that have been reproducing discrimination, … In terms of process, we used a strategy for the report’s production based on principles of knowledge coproduction . Our aim was to use the …
Insight, 12 October 2022
Fadzilah Majid-Cooke
Q&A with Fadzilah Majid-Cooke: land rights and agricultural investments in Southeast Asia
Article, 18 March 2013
People from Kandadji village, which is due to be flooded, meet to discuss resettlement plans (Photo: Jamie Skinner)
Niger hosts forum on securing land rights in irrigated areas
… the current challenges arising from socio-economic issues around land rights over existing and future irrigation schemes in Niger, and will … and the shrinking of arable land as a result of climatic factors and human intervention.  In this context, some local communities are … and equitable management of their use, and developing nature-based solutions to meet the challenges of the world’s climate, of food …
News, 07 May 2014
A protest march
Empowering women and youth for transformative climate and environment justice
… justice principles are mutually reinforcing, covering respect for rights, fairness, equity, participation, people and ecosystems among … discourse and ground technical debates in practical realities. The human rights-based approach to development is vital but is sometimes viewed by …
Insight, 14 May 2020
A street vendor sells produce in Surabaya, Indonesia (Photo: Schristia, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Showcasing innovations in policy approaches to informality
… known that informal economies are closely connected with poverty, human rights violations and environmental degradation. But there is growing … in partnership with local partners, these papers offer case study-based evidence of processes of inclusive formalisation: authorities …
Article, 21 July 2015