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Several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have launched initiatives to produce green hydrogen for their own use and for export, raising the question of what environmental and social effects such initiatives may generate, and how these can be anticipated and mitigated. Oman and Morocco are among the region’s frontrunners. Because all projects in these countries are still in the preparatory phase and no large-scale facility is yet in commercial operation, they offer the unusual opportunity to observe how safeguards, stakeholder participation and risk management are being configured before build-out, that is, before conditions are created that may not be easily reversed, thereby creating path dependencies.
Drawing on desk-based analysis, a comparative media review, and stakeholder interviews conducted in both countries, this study examines the environmental and social impacts of hydrogen projects in the two countries through the lens of four inter-related dimensions: (i) resource endowments, (ii) environmental risks, (iii) decision-making and governance arrangements, and (iv) social equity dynamics. It finds that the two states have developed different institutional settlements.
While environmental and social safeguards are increasingly integrated into hydrogen development, often drawing on international standards, their practical implementation often remains shaped by complex and fragmented institutional arrangements. This raises questions about the allocation of mandates, the distribution of responsibilities, the consistency of procedures and the capacity for long-term monitoring and traceability. The study therefore argues that institutional design is central to sustainable hydrogen development, as environmental and social risks may otherwise evolve faster than regulatory capacities, highlighting the need for robust impact assessment, monitoring frameworks and transparent reporting mechanisms.

Dr Tobias Zumbraegel is a senior researcher at the University of Heidelberg and sustainability consultant at Momentum Novum GmbH. 

Several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have launched initiatives to produce green hydrogen for their own use and for export, raising the question of what environmental and social effects such initiatives may generate, and how these can be anticipated and mitigated. Oman and Morocco are among the region’s frontrunners. Because all projects in these countries are still in the preparatory phase and no large-scale facility is yet in commercial operation, they offer the unusual opportunity to observe how safeguards, stakeholder participation and risk management are being configured before build-out, that is, before conditions are created that may not be easily reversed, thereby creating path dependencies.
Drawing on desk-based analysis, a comparative media review, and stakeholder interviews conducted in both countries, this study examines the environmental and social impacts of hydrogen projects in the two countries through the lens of four inter-related dimensions: (i) resource endowments, (ii) environmental risks, (iii) decision-making and governance arrangements, and (iv) social equity dynamics. It finds that the two states have developed different institutional settlements.
While environmental and social safeguards are increasingly integrated into hydrogen development, often drawing on international standards, their practical implementation often remains shaped by complex and fragmented institutional arrangements. This raises questions about the allocation of mandates, the distribution of responsibilities, the consistency of procedures and the capacity for long-term monitoring and traceability. The study therefore argues that institutional design is central to sustainable hydrogen development, as environmental and social risks may otherwise evolve faster than regulatory capacities, highlighting the need for robust impact assessment, monitoring frameworks and transparent reporting mechanisms.

Dr Tobias Zumbraegel is a senior researcher at the University of Heidelberg and sustainability consultant at Momentum Novum GmbH. 

A venezuelai migráció az elmúlt évtized egyik legnagyobb népességmozgásává vált, amelynek következményei messze túlmutatnak Venezuela határain. Az UNHCR 2025 végén közzétett adatai szerint közel 7,9 millió ember hagyta el Venezuelát, közülük több mint 6,9 millióan Latin-Amerika és a Karib-térség országaiban élnek. A válság különösen erősen érinti Kolumbiát, amely földrajzi közelsége, a két ország közötti történelmi kapcsolatok és a hosszú közös határ miatt a venezuelai migráció egyik legfontosabb cél- és tranzitországává vált. A Migración Colombia 2024. év végi becslése alapján 2.815.611 venezuelai migráns élt Kolumbiában. A venezuelai migráció ezért Kolumbia számára már nem csupán humanitárius vagy szociális kérdés, hanem összetett regionális biztonságpolitikai kihívás is (UNHCR, n.d.).

A tömeges kivándorlás hátterében Venezuela hosszú ideje fennálló politikai, gazdasági és humanitárius válsága áll. A kivándorlás különösen a 2010-es évek második felében gyorsult fel, és rövid idő alatt alapvetően megváltoztatta Kolumbia migrációs helyzetét. A World Bank szerint 2015-ben még csak mintegy 148 ezer hosszú távú bevándorló élt Kolumbiában, 2021-re azonban már körülbelül 1,7 millió venezuelai tartózkodott az országban. Fontos ugyanakkor különbséget tenni a migráció és a biztonsági fenyegetés között. Nem önmagukban a venezuelai migránsok jelentenek veszélyt, hanem azok a problémák, amelyek a nagy létszámú és részben irreguláris migráció, a gyenge állami jelenlét, a szervezett bűnözés és a korlátozott intézményi kapacitások találkozásából alakulnak ki (Rossiasco és de Narváez, 2023).

A probléma egyik legfontosabb eleme maga a kolumbiai-venezuelai határ. A két ország közös határa körülbelül 2.200 kilométer hosszú, amelyen 7 hivatalos, ugyanakkor több száz informális átkelőhely található. A határ földrajzi adottságai miatt annak teljes ellenőrzése rendkívül nehéz, ezért az irreguláris migráció kezelése nem oldható meg kizárólag hagyományos határőrizeti eszközökkel (IOM, n.d.). A Migración Colombia 2024 végi adatai szerint a Kolumbiában élő venezuelaiak közül 454.514 ember tartózkodott irreguláris migrációs helyzetben. Fontos azonban, hogy az irreguláris státusz nem feltétlenül jelent illegális határátlépést, sokan szabályosan érkeztek az országba, de később lejárt a tartózkodási engedélyük. Ez jól mutatja, hogy a biztonsági probléma nem egyszerűen a határ fizikai védelméről, hanem a migráció megfelelő adminisztratív kezeléséről is szól (Migración Colombia, 2024).

Az irreguláris migráció emellett összekapcsolódhat az embercsempészet és az emberkereskedelem problémájával. A hivatalos dokumentumokkal nem rendelkező, informális útvonalakon közlekedő migránsok kiszolgáltatottabbak a bűnözői csoportoknak, valamint a munkaerő- és szexuális kizsákmányolásnak. Az R4V 2024-es elemzése szerint regionális szinten körülbelül 2,2 millió venezuelai maradt irreguláris helyzetben, miközben 4,5 millió ember valamilyen regularizációs vagy nemzetközi védelmi rendszer segítségével rendezni tudta jogi helyzetét (R4V, n.d.).

A migráció másik fontos következménye a kolumbiai közszolgáltatásokra nehezedő nyomás. A Migración Colombia adatai alapján 2017 márciusa és 2024 augusztusa között mintegy 32,2 millió egészségügyi ellátási eseményt regisztráltak venezuelai migránsok esetében. 2020-2024 között pedig közel 200 ezer venezuelai anyától született gyermek szülészeti ellátása történt kolumbiai intézményekben, ami az adott időszak összes ellátott szülésének 7,2%-át jelentette. Az oktatásban is jelentős változás következett be, a venezuelai tanulók aránya a kolumbiai oktatási rendszerben 4,5%-ról 6,8%-ra emelkedett 2019 és 2023 között. Ezek az adatok jól érzékeltetik, hogy a nagy létszámú és területileg koncentrált migráció komoly alkalmazkodást követel az államtól (Migración Colombia, 2024). A World Bank korábbi számításai a migráció rövid távú költségvetési terhét évente a kolumbiai GDP 0,4–0,5%-ára becsülték, ugyanakkor arra is rámutattak, hogy a megfelelő munkaerőpiaci integráció hosszabb távon gazdasági előnyökkel járhat (Rossiasco és de Narváez, 2023).

Kolumbia egyik legfontosabb válasza ezért a venezuelai migránsok jogi helyzetének rendezése lett. 2021-ben létrehozták az Estatuto Temporal de Protección para Migrantes Venezolanos (ETPV) rendszerét, amely tízéves ideiglenes védelmi keretet biztosít, és lehetőséget teremt a legális tartózkodásra, munkavállalásra, valamint bizonyos közszolgáltatások igénybevételére. 2024 áprilisára mintegy 2,2 millió venezuelai regisztrált a rendszerben, és közülük körülbelül 1,9 millióan rendelkeztek ideiglenes védelmi engedéllyel (Migración Colombia, 2024). A regularizáció biztonságpolitikai szempontból is jelentős, hiszen a dokumentált személyek könnyebben bekerülnek az állami nyilvántartásokba és a formális munkaerőpiacra, miközben csökkenhet az informális gazdaságtól és illegális közvetítőktől való függőségük.

Összegezve, Kolumbia példája jól mutatja, hogy a venezuelai migráció biztonságpolitikai jelentősége túlmutat a hagyományos határvédelem kérdésén. A több millió ember érkezése egyszerre jelent kihívást a határellenőrzés, a szervezett bűnözés elleni fellépés, az állami intézmények és a közszolgáltatások működése, valamint a migránsok emberi biztonsága szempontjából. A kolumbiai tapasztalatok alapján a migráció biztonsági vonatkozásai szorosan összefüggnek a jogi státusz rendezésével és a társadalmi-gazdasági integrációval. A regularizáció elősegítheti a migránsok beilleszkedését, miközben az állami ellenőrzést és a jogérvényesítést is hatékonyabbá teheti. A venezuelai válság így rávilágít arra, hogy a modern biztonságpolitikában az állambiztonság és az emberi biztonság nem egymással ellentétes szempontok, hanem egy összetett regionális kihívás egymást kiegészítő

 

Források:

IOM (n.d.) Displacement Tracking Matrix – Colombia. Elérhető itt: https://dtm.iom.int/colombia?page=2 (Hozzáférés dátuma: 2026. szeptember 22.)

IOM (n.d.) DTM Activities 2014–2016 – Colombia. Elérhető itt: https://dtm.iom.int/reports/colombia-dtm-activities-2014-2016 (Hozzáférés dátuma: 2026. szeptember 22.)

Migración Colombia (2024) Salud migrantes venezolanos – Corte diciembre 2024. Elérhető itt: https://nexusmigracion.cancilleria.gov.co/sites/default/files/documentos/2026-03/Salud_migrantes_venezolanos_Dic%20%282024%29_Migracion_Colombia.pdf (Hozzáférés dátuma: 2026. szeptember 22.)

R4V (n.d.) Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan 2025–2026. Elérhető itt: https://rmrp.r4v.info/rmrp-2025-2026/ (Hozzáférés dátuma: 2026. szeptember 22.)

R4V (n.d.) Refugee and Migrant Needs Analysis 2024. Elérhető itt: https://rmrp.r4v.info/rmna2024/ (Hozzáférés dátuma: 2026. szeptember 22.)

Rossiasco, P. és de Narváez, P. (2023) Adapting public policies in response to an unprecedented influx of refugees and migrants: Colombia case study of migration from Venezuela. World Bank. Elérhető itt: https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/7277e925bdaa64d6355c42c897721299-0050062023/original/WDR-Colombia-Case-Study-FORMATTED.pdf (Hozzáférés dátuma: 2026. szeptember 22.)

UNHCR (n.d.) Venezuela Situation. Elérhető itt: https://www.unhcr.org/emergencies/venezuela-situation (Hozzáférés dátuma: 2026. szeptember 22.)

A Stelczer Virág: A venezuelai migráció, mint regionális biztonságpolitikai kihívás, Kolumbia példáján bejegyzés először Biztonságpolitika-én jelent meg.

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A máltai repülési múzeumban tett sétánk következő helyszíne a nagy hangár, amely méreteivel, nagy belmagasságával, és formájával is teljesen eltér az előző helyszíntől, a szerény Romneytól.

A repülőgépeket és helikoptereket a hangár falai mellé rendezték, középen egy C-47-es terpeszkedik, és bőven van hely a hajtóművek, repülőtéri kisegítő eszközök és néhány jármű bemutatására is. Kétoldalt az olasz-málta katonai kapcsolatok révén beszerzett gépek állnak, a hátsó traktus pedig a „brit birodalom”. Járjuk körbe a hangárt a baloldalon kezdve.

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By CIVICUS
Oct 19 2026 (IPS)

 
CIVICUS discusses the persecution of Uyghurs and activism in exile with Rushan Abbas, an Uyghur American activist, founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs and chair of the Executive Committee of the World Uyghur Congress.

Rushan Abbas

On 31 August, the World Uyghur Congress urged the United Nations (UN) and states to step up pressure on China over its treatment of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. Its call came two months after a new ‘Ethnic Unity Law’ took effect as part of a broader push to impose a single national identity. The date also marked four years since a landmark UN report found that abuses in the region may constitute crimes against humanity. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch estimate that over a million people have been detained in harsh conditions in ‘re-education’ camps since 2017.

Why did you leave Xinjiang?

I was born in Ürümchi, Xinjiang’s regional capital, during the Cultural Revolution. I started my activism as a student at Xinjiang University, where I co-organised pro-democracy protests in 1985 and 1988. In 1985, we mobilised over 20,000 students from seven universities, institutes and technical schools across the city. We demanded equality and an end to the forced sterilisation of Uyghur women and to nuclear testing in the region.

Those years brought a brief period of openness, but retaliation against the organisers came quickly. I was interrogated and, although I graduated with the highest academic honours, my job offer was withdrawn. All my prospects were denied. So in 1989, I left for the USA to pursue higher education and look for freedom and democracy.

Has danger followed you into exile?

It has, and it hit my family directly. In the early 1990s, as soon as I started working with US politicians, my father, a high-level academic in Ürümchi, lost his job at 59 in retaliation for my advocacy. In 2018, just days after I spoke publicly at the Hudson Institute, a Washington DC think tank, about the mass detentions, Chinese authorities abducted my sister Gulshan Abbas. She’s a retired physician, a mother of two and a grandmother of four, and she had never been political.

In December 2019, Chinese state media outlet CGTN denied my sister existed and accused me of making up cases and spreading rumours overseas. In December 2020, the authorities finally acknowledged Gulshan had been secretly sentenced to 20 years in prison, obviously on fabricated charges. Her case is one of the clearest examples of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses kin punishment and transnational repression to silence Uyghurs. My sister turned 64 this June. She’s still in a Chinese prison because I exercised my freedom of speech. We have no picture or video of her. No one has been able to visit her and we have received no independent report on her health or wellbeing.

I quit my job after Gulshan’s detention to campaign full time for her freedom and for the Uyghurs suffering what’s effectively an ongoing genocide. Transnational repression has followed me ever since, in the form of cyberattacks, defamation, fabricated court documents, harassment and intimidation. A video appeared on YouTube calling for my execution and that of my husband, Abdulhakim Idris. I have received emails asking what colour rifle I would prefer to be shot with. After I published my memoir, fake books claiming to tell my life story appeared on Amazon. My organisation, Campaign for Uyghurs, has experienced persistent cyberattacks. My case is not unique. Uyghurs in the diaspora and those who speak out continue to suffer transnational repression.

Why does the Chinese government target Uyghurs?

The Chinese government targets us because of our distinct ethnic identity and heritage and because we are the owners of the land we inherited from our ancestors. Our Muslim faith and our culture and language stand in the way of Beijing’s absolute control. Our faith in God, rather than the CCP, as the ultimate authority threatens the regime. This fear drives the regime to try to erase our culture and beliefs.

Economic interests are also at stake. The Uyghur region is rich in natural resources, including coal, natural gas, petroleum, rare earths and critical minerals such as uranium. It accounts for 20 per cent of the world’s cotton, 35 per cent of its solar-grade polysilicon, used in solar panels, 10 per cent of its aluminium and PVC production and 70 per cent of China’s tomato production.

Geography matters too. The region connects China with Central Asia and the Middle East and is a gateway to Africa and Europe, including the Balkans. Once the heart of the ancient Silk Road, it now hosts four of the six major Belt and Road Initiative land routes, part of China’s global infrastructure programme. This makes it key to China’s economic and geopolitical ambitions. The result has been ever-tighter control and securitisation, which has escalated into full-fledged genocide.

What does this persecution look like?

The CCP imposes forced labour, mass arbitrary detention and imprisonment, mass surveillance and restrictions on cultural and religious life. In 2025, there were 3.36 million forced labour transfers and over a million children were placed in state-run boarding schools, where they are raised cut off from their cultural heritage. The Uyghur language is banned in schools. Uyghur books and religious texts have been burned. Uyghur women are subjected to forced abortion, sterilisation and marriage to men from the dominant Han ethnic group.

China’s government claims these policies bring stability, but stability for who? This is a system where the government exercises unchecked power to detain, punish, silence and watch people for their beliefs, their identity and their demands for human dignity.

How is Campaign for Uyghurs pushing for accountability?

We document abuses, bring evidence to policymakers and international institutions and support Uyghur-led advocacy. Central to our work is equipping Uyghur women and young people in the diaspora with the knowledge and practical skills to lead advocacy efforts. We have run around 20 advocacy workshops worldwide, and we are proud to see a new generation of young Uyghur activists taking the lead.

We also work with civil society groups, interfaith organisations, think tanks and universities to turn evidence into tangible policy action. Our campaigns have contributed to US laws, including the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020, and our coalition-building has helped put the Uyghur crisis on the political agenda.

With investigative partners, we exposed Volkswagen’s sham audit and its attempts to conceal links to state-imposed forced labour. We worked with The New York Times to reveal that cotton from the Uyghur region was used to make the viral Labubu dolls manufactured by Pop Mart. This work connects evidence from the ground with public scrutiny and action.

Why has there been so little international action since the UN’s landmark 2022 report?

China has enormous economic and political leverage. Many governments and companies are reluctant to jeopardise diplomatic, trade and investment ties, or have simply been pressured into silence. Such is China’s influence that the UN refused to debate human rights abuses in the Uyghur region.

There is also an often underestimated propaganda problem. China has spent years building a global media apparatus. It uses state broadcasters, partnerships with foreign media outlets, sponsored trips for journalists and influencers and coordinated messaging to drown out credible research and human rights reporting. China does not necessarily need the world to believe its propaganda. Creating doubt and making people hesitate to act can be enough.

Time is another obstacle. Every day without meaningful consequences normalises abuses, and a human rights crisis becomes the accepted status quo.

What should governments and the UN do?

Lawmakers should pass legislation to address transnational repression, ban products made with state-imposed forced labour and provide stronger protection for Uyghurs seeking refuge.

Governments should use existing sanctions tools, including the Global Magnitsky Act, which allows sanctions on individual human rights abusers, to hold officials responsible for the genocide accountable.

Governments should also refuse to extradite Uyghurs to China. No one should be sent back to a country where they may face genocide.

Governments and international institutions must keep individual cases and the broader human rights crisis on the agenda. They should keep existing official genocide determinations in place and secure the release of political prisoners such as my sister. Human rights should never be treated as secondary to broader relations with Beijing.

CIVICUS interviews a wide range of civil society activists, experts and leaders to gather diverse perspectives on civil society action and current issues for publication on its CIVICUS Lens platform. The views expressed in interviews are the interviewees’ and do not necessarily reflect those of CIVICUS. Publication does not imply endorsement of interviewees or the organisations they represent.

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Top: Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank inside the Queen Sirikit Convention Center in Bangkok Credit: (IMF photo/N.Karlin).
Bottom: Opening of the People’s Assembly.

By Isabel Ortiz
BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct 19 2026 (IPS)

Bangkok hosted two summits last week. Inside the Queen Sirikit Convention Center, more than 15,000 finance ministers, central bank governors and CEOs of the world’s largest banks and corporations attended the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. They flew in business class and slept in five-star hotels to talk about growth, inflation and public spending, and thus to decide the destiny of billions of people they will never meet. Outside, hundreds of social movements and civil society organizations held the People’s Assembly, for the 99% whose voice would not be heard. They flew economy and often shared modest rooms. The first was the summit of money and power. The second, the summit of the rest of us.

Isabel Ortiz

These are turbulent times, marked by crises that are not natural but man-made: war, energy shocks, cost of living crisis, debt crisis, climate crisis, inequality crisis, many aggravated by the Trump administration. Inside the convention center, instead of working to solve these crises, the IMF and the World Bank told countries to be “resilient” and to build “buffers”, that is, to cut public spending now to survive the next crises. Rich countries were told to “take some pain today for growth tomorrow” and low-income countries, in the IMF Managing Director’s own words, “may be forced to cut much-needed development spending”. In other words, accept the man-made disaster, and make the people pay for it with more austerity, cuts to wages, pensions and public services. Only military spending is spared, as a “competing spending priority” to be accommodated, and Europe’s rearmament is counted as growth.

The IMF report World Economic Outlook lifts global growth to 3.1% for 2026 on the back of investment in artificial intelligence (AI), a boom confined to only a handful of countries and a technology the IMF itself says will affect 40% of jobs worldwide, and that a third of jobs in high-income countries are at risk to be replaced by IA.

Both institutions presented private finance as the engine of development: the World Bank’s Development Committee agenda in Bangkok was centered on mobilizing private capital with public guarantees. In plain language, subsidizing large corporations with public money while prescribing cuts to the public services ordinary people depend on.

No communiqué was agreed in any ministerial committee. The corridor talk was how far both institutions have bent to the will of Washington: directors replaced (at the World Bank by private sector executives, most with no development experience); work on climate and gender shelved; and, above all, the chainsaw of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency applied worldwide, with the myth that tax cuts for the wealthy and austerity cuts that impoverish the working and middle classes are necessary.

Outside the convention center, the story was completely different. The People’s Assembly worked through the alternatives in over 50 sessions to formulate a new system accountable to people and planet, not to the 1%. Behind them stand nearly 400 million people: 200 million small farmers of La Via Campesina, 191 million workers of global unions, and tens of thousands of civil society organizations. There were protests in Bangkok, and in more than 150 cities across 38 countries, including Argentina, Congo, Germany, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda and the United Kingdom, with people marching peacefully under banners such as “We are the 99%” or “Tax elites and corporations” reflecting the aims:

• Tax the 1% not ordinary people: Progressive taxes on wealth, large corporations and big tech, and an end to tax havens, with an equitable UN tax convention, instead of consumption taxes and other taxes squeezing the working and middle classes.
• End austerity cuts: Public services and social protection for all; fund the right to health, education, social security, housing, water, instead of privatization and public private partnerships that shift costs to people.
• Debt justice: No country should cut health or education to pay creditors as happens in 51 countries today; audit and cancel illegitimate debts, end IMF surcharges and loan conditions, and a UN framework convention on sovereign debt instead of restructurings run by creditors.
• Climate justice: Make polluters pay, phase out fossil fuels, and a just transition.
• Democratize global economic governance: The IMF and World Bank are not the solution but part of the problem, as a few rich countries (and their corporations) hold most of the voting power (and only the US has a veto); move decisions on debt, tax and finance to the UN, where every country has one vote.
• Gender justice: Women are half of the world population but just an afterthought for policy makers, gender-responsive policies and budgets, public services, redistribution of care work.
• Decent jobs: Employment respecting international labor standards and living wages, union rights and protection for migrant workers.
• Food sovereignty, fair crop prices for farmers, agroecology instead of agrobusiness, land rights for indigenous peoples and small farmers, and rights guaranteed by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants.
• Industrialization of developing countries, oriented to domestic and regional markets, instead of exporting raw materials and importing everything else.
• No more corporate impunity, promotion of private finance and privatization: public services can be funded by taxing the 1%, a binding UN treaty on business and human rights, and fair trade rules instead of investor-state arbitration that lets corporations sue governments.
• AI: Slow down and put AI under public control, binding public regulation of AI covering data harvesting, manipulation of public opinion, job destruction, civil liberties and environmental damage.
• Stop authoritarianism and the far-right: Defend civic space, Human Rights and democratic institutions against the authoritarian turn of governments.
• Peace and an end to the militarization that diverts budgets from social spending to rearmament, and an end to occupation and genocide in Palestine.

Another world is possible, and last week it was formulated a short distance from the IMF/World Bank convention center. Finance ministers must now choose whom they serve: the millions of citizens who elected them, or the 1%, by bending to pressure from the IMF and the World Bank that deepens inequality.

Isabel Ortiz, Director, Global Social Justice, was Director at the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UNICEF, and a senior official at the UN and the Asian Development Bank.

IPS UN Bureau

 

 

 

 

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L’article Visas Schengen : la France refuse près de trois fois plus en Algérie qu’au Maroc est apparu en premier sur .

Deux hommes viennent d’entendre la sentence la plus lourde du code pénal algérien. La Cour d’Alger les a condamnés à la peine de mort pour […]

L’article Peine de mort en Algérie : deuxième condamnation contre deux narcotrafiquants est apparu en premier sur .

La flotte du pavillon national s’enrichit d’une nouvelle unité. Air Algérie a confirmé samedi la réception d’un sixième appareil de type Airbus A330neo, un gros-porteur […]

L’article Flotte d’Air Algérie : un sixième A330neo rejoint le pavillon national est apparu en premier sur .

Ce samedi à Blida, le ministre du Commerce extérieur et de la Promotion des exportations, Kamel Rezig, a affirmé que le pays couvrait désormais ses […]

L’article « L’Algérie a atteint l’autosuffisance » : Rezig dresse le bilan de la filière agroalimentaire est apparu en premier sur .

Un documentaire du ministère de la Défense nationale (MDN), diffusé sur la Télévision nationale, lève le voile sur l’origine criminelle de plusieurs incendies de forêt […]

L’article Incendies de forêt : le MDN accuse Amir DZ d’avoir manipulé des exécutants locaux est apparu en premier sur .

La semaine débute sous le signe de l’instabilité météorologique en Algérie. Alors que plusieurs wilayas restent concernées par des alertes aux pluies et aux orages […]

L’article Nouvelle perturbation météo dès lundi 19 octobre : jusqu’à 50 mm de pluie attendus ! est apparu en premier sur .

Un enfant mineur qui quitte l’Algérie avec son père ou sa mère n’a pas besoin de l’autorisation de l’autre parent. Seule une décision de justice […]

L’article Voyager avec un enfant depuis l’Algérie : quand l’autorisation parentale est-elle obligatoire ? est apparu en premier sur .

Le ministère des Travaux publics entend impulser une nouvelle dynamique aux infrastructures routières. Entre accélération des chantiers en cours et plan d’entretien pluriannuel, la priorité […]

L’article Infrastructures : Les « points noirs » de l’autoroute Est-Ouest dans le viseur de Djellaoui est apparu en premier sur .

LG Electronics Algérie annonce le lancement de LG Days 2026. Cette opération promotionnelle se tient du 18 octobre au 8 novembre 2026. Elle se déroule […]

L’article LG Days 2026 : jusqu’à 53 000 DA de réduction sur les téléviseurs et l’électroménager LG est apparu en premier sur .