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COP30 Bulletin Day 5: COP30 could greenlight work on a fossil fuel transition roadmap

As a growing number of countries start to rally publicly behind a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels at COP30, governments are trying to pin down what those discussions would look like, and what the talks in Belém could deliver. At the leaders’ summit before COP began, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva […]

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An Eye on Methane: International Methane Emissions Observatory 2023 Report

An Eye on Methane: International Methane Emissions Observatory 2023 Report An Eye on Methane: the road to radical transparency takes stock of progress harnessing an imminent data revolution that can accelerate methane reduction on a global scale. Credible data has the potential to deliver the transparency needed for rapid climate action, but only if reconciled, integrated and […]

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Used Heavy- Duty Vehicles and the Environment: A Global Overview of Used Heavy-Duty Vehicles: Flow, Scale and Regulation

Used Heavy- Duty Vehicles and the Environment: A Global Overview of Used Heavy-Duty Vehicles: Flow, Scale and Regulation This Used Heavy- Duty Vehicles and the Environment: A Global Overview of Used Heavy-Duty Vehicles: Flow, Scale and Regulation report analyses the flow and scale of used heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) from three major used HDVs exporters – Japan, the […]

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USA: Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses 

Language used maybe offensive to some readers  Thousands of NYPD records secured by the rights groups detail expansive and unlawful surveillance of protesters, and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour communities.  Records obtained by Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group, after a five-year long […]

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Tunisia: Escalating crackdown on human rights organizations reaches critical levels 

Tunisian authorities have increasingly escalated their crackdown on human rights defenders and independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) through arbitrary arrests, detention, asset freezes, bank restrictions and court-ordered suspensions, all under the pretext of fighting “suspicious” foreign funding and shielding “national interests,” Amnesty International said today. In an unprecedented step six NGO workers and human rights defenders working for […]

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Slovenia: MPs must reject draconian ‘security’ bill which puts rights at risk and targets Roma community

Ahead of an expected vote in Slovenia’s parliament on hastily proposed sweeping changes which would significantly expand police powers, restrict welfare rights and weaken key safeguards, Esther Major Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Research in Europe, said: “This draconian bill risks stripping all people in Slovenia of an array of vital human rights protections as […]

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South Africa must seize opportunity to show principled global leadership

By Agnès Callamard, Secretary General at Amnesty International South Africa has played a leading role in international efforts to prevent, stop and punish Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. Now, as the nation prepares to host the first G20 Leaders’ Summit on African soil, it has an important opportunity to step up that pressure […]