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Climate change
The political economy of carbon markets
Carbon trading, also known as the cap and trade system, was introduced in the Kyoto negotiations as a mechanism for regulating carbon emissions mainly to please the United States. A new book looks into the political economy of carbon markets presenting a number of alternatives to live in real low-carbon futures.
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NEWS
Selected news
"Challenge is to bring together human rights and social justice"
Fri Mar 12 2010 - Source: Pacific Gender Action Portal
We are facing a “fierce new world”, with massive political and economic instability, says feminist activist Gita Sen speaking at a panel at the CSW meeting in New York. This instability, and the connections between militarization, economic crisis, food insecurity, violence, climate change and a rollback on sexual rights, hits women the hardest.
Bangladesh: fire survivors call for justice
Fri Mar 12 2010 - Source: Maquila Solidarity Network
Following a horrific factory fire that killed 21 employees of a garment factory in Bangladesh, the factory workers are demanding swift reforms, a criminal investigation and compensation for the victims.
People left without water around Coca-Cola Plant in India
Thu Mar 11 2010 - Source: India Resource Center
The Coca-Cola company has continued to operate its bottling plant in Kala Dera in Jaipur, India even as the area has been declared a drought area last summer and the groundwater levels are falling sharply.
CAMPAIGNS
Helping Chile
Call to support farmer and civil society organisations' application

Beijing +15 - Fifteen-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action
Putting gender economics at the forefront
It is time to put an end to the gender blindness of current economic policies concludes a new occasional paper by the international civil society network Social Watch entitled “Putting gender economics at the forefront. 15 years after the IV World Conference on Women”. The publication is launched March 9 2010 in New York to mark the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
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Economic, social and cultural rights - ESCR
Bringing Human Rights to bear in times of crisis
The report "Bringing Human Rights to Bear in Times of Crisis: A human rights analysis of government responses to the economic crisis" aims to deepen our understanding of how governments have conducted themselves and how effective economic policies have been in defending and strengthening the enjoyment of human rights in a time of multiple and interlocking social and economic crises.
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Getting away with murder
On January 19 Israel's international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using fake European passports, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh. International media and diplomatic circles are buzzing with stories and theories about how the Israelis planned the whole thing and executed with professional precision. The question is how long will Israel get away with murder? And how long will its Western friends and allies protect it?
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