The Children’s Rights & Business Principles (CRBP) is a joint initiative by UNICEF, the UN Global Compact and Save the Children to offer guidance to businesses on children’s rights in the workplace and beyond. Based on extensive consultations with business and civil society stakeholders from all geographic regions the principles will enable the private sector to maximize positive impacts on children’s lives by respecting and supporting their rights. The CRBP will be released in November 2011.

More information:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/CRBPI-consultation

Nei giorni 24 e 25 maggio, ventitre delegati in rappresentanza delle maggiori organizzazioni della societa' civile afgana si riuniranno a Roma, assieme ad organizzazioni italiane ed europee, per approfondire alcuni temi di interesse comune e per formulare una strategia per rafforzare le organizzazioni afgane e favorire la loro partecipazione attiva ai processi decisionali e al processo di pace nel paese. La conferenza internazionale di Roma è l’ultimo passo di un programma promosso dalla Rete italiana Afgana.org - un ampio raggruppamento di associazioni, ong, realtà sociali e culturali, accademici, ricercatori, operatori dei media. L’iniziativa ha avuto il sostenuto del Parlamento e del Ministero Affari Esteri che ne hanno condiviso gli obiettivi.
I due giorni di conferenza saranno dedicati ad un dibattito pubblico sulla partecipazione della societa' civile al processo decisionale e di pace in atto in Afghanistan, si trattera' dunque di una importante occasione di dibattito e confronto alla presenza di alcune tra le organizzazioni più rappresentative della societa civile afgana. (...)

Il Programma:
http://afgana.org/showart.php?id=748&rubrica=228

Sull'argomento:

http://www.greenreport.it/_new/index.php?page=default&id=10503

Dal Rapporto 2011 di Amnesty International:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/afghanistan/report-2011

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10 anni di guerra in Afghanistan visti dall’altro Afghanistan:

http://www.greenreport.it/_new/index.php?page=default&id=12670

10 anni di guerra in Afghanistan visti dall'altra Italia - Il silenzio inammissibile:

http://www.greenreport.it/_new/index.php?page=default&id=12673

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Passato...prossimo:

https://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2659:lafghanistan-in-cerca-di-futuro&catid=46:diritti-umani&Itemid=105

Growing demands for freedom and justice across the Middle East and North Africa and the rise of social media offer an unprecedented opportunity for human rights change – but this change stands on a knife-edge, said Amnesty International as it launched its global human rights report on the eve of its 50th anniversary.
"Fifty years since the Amnesty candle began to shine a light on repression, the human rights revolution now stands on the threshold of historic change," said Salil Shetty, Amnesty International Secretary General. (...)

The article:
http://amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report-2011-amnesty-international-50-says-historic-change-knife-edge-2011-05-13

The Report:
http://amnesty.org/en/annual-report/2011

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Sull'argomento:

http://www.galileonet.it/articles/4dcd099872b7ab3abe000043

http://lepersoneeladignita.corriere.it/2011/05/28/50-anni-dopo-a-sucre/

Sull'Italia:

http://www.helpconsumatori.it/news.php?id=32817

http://www.altrenotizie.org/politica/4056-amnesty-la-pena-italiana.html

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Appelli da firmare:

http://www.amnesty.it/elenco-appelli-firma-online.html/L/IT/YY/2011/MM/5

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Amnesty Int.l e Corriere della Sera - Un blog per i diritti umani:

http://lepersoneeladignita.corriere.it/

For a decade we have been living through a period of great turbulence in the commodity markets. Rising and sometimes highly volatile prices, strong geological and market concentration, and state intervention in the commodity markets all stoke fears of future supply bottlenecks and an expectation of ensuing international tension and violent confrontation. The list of recent incidents is long: the gas dispute between Russia, Ukraine and the EU; food revolts in Haiti, Tunisia and Algeria; China's trade conflict with the United States and the EU over export restrictions imposed on many metals; and the confrontation between China and Japan over China's export ban on rare earths to name just a few. (...)

The abstract:
http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/products/swp-research-papers/swp-research-paper-detail/article/knappe_ressourcen_konfliktrisiko_rohstoffe.html

The research paper:
http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2011_RP02_lag_mdn_rsv_ks.pdf

(...) Il 1° di febbraio, il partito di sinistra Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, l'FMLN, ha assunto la presidenza dell'Assemblea Legislativa

The global summit of women wrapped up a three-day conference here on Saturday by highlighting hot topics such as diversity, scarce resources and corporate social responsibility. The summit provided a global platform for women to share "what works" in accelerating women's economic advancement in the world.
The summit with 1,000 women coming from 81 countries closed with a grand ceremony that took place with the attendance of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, alongside many female business and government leaders. (...)

The article:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-05/08/c_13863983.htm

The Summit website:
http://www.globewomen.org/summit/Summit.htm

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Council of Europe - New Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence:

http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Reports/Html/210.htm