Climate change and global finance: Is the financial sector reaching a tipping point? Published: 17 December 2020 The financial industry also sees the climate crisis as a threat to future speculation profits. Industry giants like BlackRock are calling for an end to fossil fuels and siding with the environmental movement.
Rewatch SOWT’s and hbs’ Online Listening Party on Human Trafficking in Jordan Published: 16 November 2020 On 11 October 2020, SOWT and Heinrich Böll Foundation Palestine and Jordan conducted an online "Listening Party on Human Trafficking in Jordan". Click to watch a summary of the event, which provides information on the definition of human trafficking and specific cases in Jordan.
When Will the Smile Return to Our World? Published: 22 October 2020 Researchers and academics from around the world answer this question at Muwatin’s 26th Annual Conference
Be courageous, be daring in the pursuit of right Published: 20 October 2020 Liberate yourself, [and] you liberate the land, Hanan Ashrawi’s fathers told her. She became the first woman in the Executive Committee of the PLO.
On the Value of Human Rights Published: 11 September 2020 In 2020, we celebrate 75 years of the UN, the intergovernmental organization that, since its formation, aimed to maintain international peace, security, and a protection of human rights. Silke Voß-Kyeck, an expert on the United Nations and rapporteur for Forum Menschenrechte, explores the correlation between finances and human rights protection within the UN for the 75th anniversary of the organisation.
Israel and Palestine: annexation in the shadows of SARS-CoV-2? Published: 18 May 2020 The world's attention is fully focused on tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. But in the shadows of this crisis, Israel is quietly planning to annex parts of the Westbank. How likely is annexation and what will its consequences be?
The invisible coronavirus makes systemic gender inequalities and injustices visible Published: 30 April 2020 COVID-19 uniquely affects women. Here are many of the ways it does.