By ALDA Over the summer, the ALDA office in Strasbourg carried out a special intensive project in the city: “ECO-CHANGE – Active Youth for Global Change”. With climate change being not just a major environmental and development-related challenge, but also a key factor affecting people’s decision to migrate and their ability to do it safely, […]
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By WWF The WWF European Policy Office (EPO) has just launched a new report ‘Towards an EU Wellbeing Economy: a fairer, more sustainable Europe after COVID-19’, calling for the EU to shift to a ‘wellbeing economy’ to successfully recover by using the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals as a framework to achieve a just, socially inclusive […]
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By Deirdre De Burca, Forus Many in the human rights community are sceptical about what they regard as the weak potential of the SDGs to advance a universal human rights agenda. (See foreword by former Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Philip Alston of a recent report on Goal 16 and civic space […]
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By EDF The European Disability Strategy ends in 2020 and the European Commission is drafting its successor. This Disability Rights Agenda will guide the EU work for the next 10 years. In particular, it will articulate how the EU and its 27 Member States will bring the implementation of international commitments, such as the UN […]
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By GCAP GCAP and the Faces of Migration partners reiterate our call on the governments of EU Member States, with support from the European Commission, to urgently relocate displaced individuals from Greece. Lesvos and the other EU Hotspots on the Aegean islands have reached breaking point long ago. European government must now urgently bring the […]
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By Eva Izquierdo, EEB The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the wildlife trade. Less well-known is that the European Union is one of the world’s leading markets both for licit and illicit wildlife. Eva Izquierdo highlights how, despite its commitment to curbing this harmful commerce, the EU is failing to take sufficient action and new […]
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By GCAP GCAP has joined 200+ civil society organizations and others to call for a Global Fund for Social Protection. The call is available in Arabic, Russian, English, French and Spanish. The list of signatories is here. The press release “Over 200 civil society organizations and trade unions unite to call for a Global Fund […]
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By Patrizia Heidegger, EEB The EU and its Member States were a driving force behind the negotiation and adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Now, the EU’s leadership is needed to make the Goals a reality, at home and globally. The EU has the power to pass transformative laws and […]
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By Diego, Spain “Us” vs. “them”. When put in contrast, these two words summarize world history in less than one second. Tellingly, this simple dichotomy is at the root of the deadliest conflicts mankind has ever seen. Nowadays, we are witnessing how this belligerent dichotomy pervades our societies, threatening hard-won rights and freedoms. But, here […]
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By FERN We are concerned: at the moment, there is nothing that stops products linked to deforestation and human rights from entering the EU market. We need a new EU law to stop this. A European Commission public consultation on this issue is expected in June and will run for 12 weeks. A number of […]
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